Michigan Non-Fiction
2. 
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
by:
Mardi Jo Link
3.51 avg rating — 3,012 ratings 
4. 
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
by:
Mark Binelli
3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings 5. 
5. 
The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
by:
Alex Kotlowitz
3.79 avg rating — 1,971 ratings 
5. 
Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service
by:
Patricia Majher
3.98 avg rating — 97 ratings 5. 
Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia
by:
JoEllen Vinyard
3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 10. 
Isadore's Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town
by:
Mardi Jo Link
3.74 avg rating — 730 ratings 10. 
The Michigan Womyn's (Women's) Music Festival: An Amazon Matrix of Meaning 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920
by:
Olivier Zunz
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings 
17. 
Assassination of a Michigan King: The Life of James Jesse Strang
by:
Roger Van Noord
3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings 
19. 
Michigan's Strychnine Saint: The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight
by:
Tobin T. Buhk
3.70 avg rating — 202 ratings 
21. 
Weird Michigan: Your Travel Guide to Michigan's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
by:
Linda S. Godfrey
3.81 avg rating — 333 ratings 22. 
Community in Conflict: A Working-class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy
by:
Gary Kaunonen
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 23. 
Oddball Michigan: A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places (Oddball series)
by:
Jerome Pohlen
3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings 24. 
True Crime: Michigan: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases
by:
Tobin T. Buhk
3.62 avg rating — 134 ratings 25. 
Labor in Detroit: Working in the Motor City
by:
Mike Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
28. 
Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State
by:
Sheryl James
3.42 avg rating — 43 ratings 
30. 
The Boy Governor: Stevens T. Mason and the Birth of Michigan Politics
by:
Don Faber
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings 
37. 
The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945
by:
Paul R. Kavieff
3.44 avg rating — 162 ratings 
40. 
Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum (Great Lakes Books)
by:
Heidi Johnson
4.39 avg rating — 77 ratings 41. 
Beauty is Therapy: Memories of the Traverse City State Hospital
by:
Earle E. Steele
3.66 avg rating — 104 ratings 