Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)

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Detroit: An American Autopsy
Detroit: An American Autopsy 3.94 avg rating — 15,741 ratings
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Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,096 ratings
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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) 4.24 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story 3.79 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Detroit: A Biography
Detroit: A Biography 3.71 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Broken Monsters
Broken Monsters 3.59 avg rating — 23,645 ratings
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The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker 4.17 avg rating — 3,788 ratings
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits 4.05 avg rating — 492 ratings
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Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir) 3.47 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Detroit True Crime Chronicles: Tales of Murder and Mayhem in the Motor City
The Detroit True Crime Chronicles: Tales of Murder and Mayhem in the Motor City 3.61 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Ruins Of Detroit
The Ruins Of Detroit 4.55 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Made in Detroit: A Memoir
Made in Detroit: A Memoir 3.23 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City
Detroit Rock City: The Uncensored History of Rock 'n' Roll in America's Loudest City 3.69 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City 3.65 avg rating — 4,033 ratings
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Seven Neighborhoods in Detroit: Recipes from the City
Seven Neighborhoods in Detroit: Recipes from the City 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Breaking His Rules
Breaking His Rules 3.66 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Killed to Death: Detroit, Assembly Lines, Murder
Killed to Death: Detroit, Assembly Lines, Murder it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit
Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit 3.64 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Second Hand
Second Hand 3.59 avg rating — 693 ratings
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Out of Sight (Jack Foley, #1)
Out of Sight (Jack Foley, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 13,148 ratings
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How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass
How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass 3.93 avg rating — 267 ratings
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Coney Detroit
Coney Detroit 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking
The Slave Across the Street: The True Story of How an American Teen Survived the World of Human Trafficking 3.81 avg rating — 3,610 ratings
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Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination
by: Herb Boyd
3.76 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (African American Life
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (African American Life 3.68 avg rating — 34 ratings
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True Crime: Michigan: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
True Crime: Michigan: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases 3.62 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Detroit's Historic Places of Worship
Detroit's Historic Places of Worship 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit 4.26 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools
Inside My Pencil: Teaching Poetry in Detroit Public Schools 4.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Escape from Detroit: The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis
Escape from Detroit: The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis 3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Writing My Wrongs
Writing My Wrongs 4.25 avg rating — 5,029 ratings
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age 4.08 avg rating — 2,992 ratings
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Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss 3.47 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR 4.18 avg rating — 596 ratings
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Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back
Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back 4.04 avg rating — 366 ratings
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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City
A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City 3.90 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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The Algiers Motel Incident
The Algiers Motel Incident 3.88 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins
Lost Detroit: Stories Behind the Motor City's Majestic Ruins 4.15 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll 4.06 avg rating — 109 ratings
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When Shadows Turned to Night: The Motor City Thriller Series Finale
When Shadows Turned to Night: The Motor City Thriller Series Finale it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lost Girl (Hidden, #1)
Lost Girl (Hidden, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 1,933 ratings
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Punching Out
Punching Out 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Your Life Idyllic
Your Life Idyllic 4.66 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Grand River and Joy
Grand River and Joy 3.67 avg rating — 163 ratings
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The Cheerio Killings (Lupe Garcia #1)
The Cheerio Killings (Lupe Garcia #1) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery (Great Lakes Books)
Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery (Great Lakes Books) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Scrapper
Scrapper
by: Matt Bell
3.20 avg rating — 573 ratings
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The Detroit Riot of 1967 (Great Lakes Books)
The Detroit Riot of 1967 (Great Lakes Books) 3.53 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1)
Bury Me When I'm Dead (Charlie Mack Motown Mystery, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit 4.24 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America
The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America 3.78 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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Beautiful Music
Beautiful Music 4.02 avg rating — 866 ratings
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Unborn (Unborn, #1)
Unborn (Unborn, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
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The Life of Charles Stewart Mott: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Mr. Flint
The Life of Charles Stewart Mott: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Mr. Flint 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Good Negress
The Good Negress 3.67 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude
Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Man Candy (After We Fall, #1)
Man Candy (After We Fall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 16,477 ratings
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Punishment (Detective Barnes, #1)
Punishment (Detective Barnes, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 5,042 ratings
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Detroit Fairy Tales
Detroit Fairy Tales 4.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Motor City at War (Detroit Series Book 1)
Motor City at War (Detroit Series Book 1) 4.53 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Born from Pain
Born from Pain 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Fair Weather Friend
The Fair Weather Friend 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych 3.97 avg rating — 332 ratings
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The Red Wings
The Red Wings 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Broken (Hidden, #2)
Broken (Hidden, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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DETROIT ROCKS! A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965 to 1975
DETROIT ROCKS! A Pictorial History of Motor City Rock and Roll 1965 to 1975 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Motown Underground (Lupe Garcia #2)
Motown Underground (Lupe Garcia #2) 2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang
Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit 3.62 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Unseen (Unborn, #2)
Unseen (Unborn, #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
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City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit
City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit 3.77 avg rating — 81 ratings
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This Far By Faith
This Far By Faith 4.20 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend)
The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark (Honoring a Detroit Legend) 4.21 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit (Made in Michigan Writer Series)
The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit (Made in Michigan Writer Series) 3.78 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Yzerman: The Making of a Champion
Yzerman: The Making of a Champion 3.65 avg rating — 117 ratings
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The Detroiters
The Detroiters 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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King of the Corner (Detroit, #3)
King of the Corner (Detroit, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 111 ratings
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THE VIOLENT YEARS: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs
THE VIOLENT YEARS: Prohibition and the Detroit Mobs 3.54 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,802 ratings
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Where Did Our Love Go? the Rise and Fall of The Motown Sound
Where Did Our Love Go? the Rise and Fall of The Motown Sound 3.93 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Heart Soul Detroit: Conversations on the Motor City
Heart Soul Detroit: Conversations on the Motor City 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed 3.87 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories
Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Places/Everyone
Places/Everyone 4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Jitterbug (Detroit, #6)
Jitterbug (Detroit, #6) 3.61 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Calling Out Around the World: A Motown Reader
Calling Out Around the World: A Motown Reader 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford
The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past
Detroitland: A Collection of Movers, Shakers, Lost Souls, and History Makers from Detroit's Past 4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings
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When It's All Relative (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #8)
When It's All Relative (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #8) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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M-80 (Pitt Poetry Series)
M-80 (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Edsel (Detroit, #4)
Edsel (Detroit, #4) 3.59 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Motown: The Sound Of Young America
Motown: The Sound Of Young America 4.32 avg rating — 74 ratings
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CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 121 ratings
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When First We Practice (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #7)
When First We Practice (Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers, #7) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Blue Jesus
Blue Jesus 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
by: Dr. Licks
4.53 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul 4.14 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints 3.94 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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Strawberry: How an exotic dancer toppled Detroit's hip-hop mayor
Strawberry: How an exotic dancer toppled Detroit's hip-hop mayor 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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