2014 Michigan Notable Books

Better late than never, I guess. This list came out at the beginning of January, but since that comes right at the tail-end of our busiest time of the year in the gift basket business, I forgot about it. Actually, looking back - I have forgotten about it for a few years now. I haven't highlighted the Michigan Notable books since 2011.

The notable books are selected by a committee. Books on the list are either written by a Michigan author and/or are about Michigan and the Great Lakes region.

It's always nice to look at the list and see that I have already read a couple of the books.

• Beyond Pontiac's Shadow: Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763
• The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
• Birth Marks (American Poets Continuum)
• Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton
• Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
• The Colored Car (Great Lakes Books Series)
• Detroit: Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide
• Detroit: An American Autopsy
• The Great Lake Sturgeon
• I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
• In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
• November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913
• Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry (Huron River Mist)
• The River Swimmer
• Something That Feels Like Truth (Switchgrass)
• Sweetie-licious Pies: Eat Pie, Love Life
• Taken Alive - The Sights' Rock and Roll Diary
• Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
• Tuesdays with Todd and Brad Reed
• The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Made in Michigan Writers Series)