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Books set in Michigan:


Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Made in Detroit by Paul Clemens
Detroit Noir by E.J. Olsen
Sugartown by Loren D. Estleman
The Other Side Of The River: A Story Of Two Towns, A Death, And America's Dilemma
The Art Student's War by Brad Leithauser
What Work Is by Philip Levine
them by Joyce Carol Oates

I just finished Big Girl Small: A Novel - set in Ann Arbor, MI.

A Superior Death by Nevada Barr

Winter Study by Nevada Barr

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

Wreck of the Carl D: A True Story of Loss, Survival and Rescue at Sea by Michael Schumacher (Lake Michigan and nearby Rogers City, Michigan)

More books set in Michigan:


American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Acquisitions by Kimberley White
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg
Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan
Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Blood Will Tell by Samantha Young (1st book in Warriors of Ankh series)
The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries
Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing by Arnie Bernstein
Blind Spot by Lynn Romaine
The Crow by James O'Barr
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton (1st book in Alex McKnight series)
The Chocolate Pirate Plot by JoAnna Carl
Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan
Carrie's Answer by Sierra Summers
Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey (1st book of Agent of Hel series)
Dead Dancing Women by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Dumb Jock by Jeff Erno (1st book in series)
Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder by Steve Lehto
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
Detroit by Lisa D'Amour
Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgakas
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli
The Detroit Electric Scheme by D.E. Johnson
Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke
Embersby Laura Bickle (1st book of Anya Kalinczyk series)
Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte
Eight Dogs Named Jack: And 14 Other Stories from the Detroit Streets and Michigan Wilderness
Exit Strategy by Ryan Potter
Enza by Kristy K. James

More books set in Michigan:


The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Farmer by Jim Harrison
Fire Point: A Novel of Suspense by John Smolens
Freshwater Boys by Adam Schuitema
Forever Freed by Laura Kaye
The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America by Upton Sinclair
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison by T.J. Parsell
Gifts and Consequences by Daniel Coleman
Great Lakes Ghost Ship: Johnathan Rand's Michigan chillers by Johnathan Rand
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood by Eileen Cook
Grosse Pointe Girl: Tales from a Suburban Adolescence by Sarah Grace McCandless
Grosse Pointe Pimp by Mark Steel
Double Standards by Judith McNaught
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (1st book in series)
The Good Negress by A.J. Verdelle
The Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley
Have a Little Faith: The Story of a Last Request by Mitch Albom
Hannah by Gloria Whelan
His Baby Surprise by Lisa Childs
Isadore's Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town
Ice Hunter: A Woods Cop Mystery by Joseph Heywood (1st book of Service series)
Asylum Lake by R.A. Evans
Icewater Mansions by Doug Allyn (1st book of Mitch Mitchell series)
I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan
If These Walls Could Talk: Michigan Football Stories from Inside the Big House by Jon Falk
In Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson (1st book in Grandma's Attic series)
Kiss of Fire by Deborah Cooke (1st book of Dragonfire series)
The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life by Wade Rouse
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood
The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
The Lake, the River & the Other Lake: A Novel by Steve Amick
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines (1st book of Magic Ex Libris series)
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis
Life Sentences: Book One in the Chad Wilbank Series by Tekla Dennison Miller
Love Means... Courage by Andrew Grey
The Magic Room: A Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters by Jeffrey Zaslow
The Michigan Murders by Edward Keyes
Murder Passes the Buck by Deb Baker (1st book in Gertie Johnson series)
Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis

More Books set in Michigan:


Mind Over MurderMind Over Murder by William X. Kienzle
Mitt, the Michigan Mouse by Kathy-Jo Wargin
Motor City Fae by Cindy Spencer Pape (1st book of Urban Arcana series)
Motor City Shakedown by D.E. Johnson
Motor City Blue by Loren D. Estleman (1st Amos Walker Mystery)
The Narrows by Alex Irvine
Next Spring An Oriole by Gloria Whelan (1st book of Oriole series)
Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Nightmare In Detroit: A Rebellion and Its Victims by Van Gordon Sauter
Once On This Island by Gloria Whelan(1st book in Mackinac Island Trilogy)
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant by Paul Clemens
Q Road by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard
Poison Blonde by Loren D. Estleman
Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds by Sarah Cunningham
Playing by the Baby Rules by Michelle Celmer
The River Swimmer: Novellas by Jim Harrison
Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery by Joseph Heywood
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle
The Rosary Murders by William X. Kienzle
The Raising by Laura Kasischke
The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom
The Silly Season: An Entr'acte by Susan Holtzer

Books set in Michigan:


Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Sundog by Jim Harrison
The Snowfly: A Novel by Joseph Heywood
So Terrible a Storm: A Tale of Fury on Lake Superior by Curt Brown
South of Superior by Ellen Airgood
The Sweater Letter by Dave Distel
She's So Money by Cherry Cheva
A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith by Anna-Lisa Cox
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
The Skeleton Box by Bryan Gruley
Summer People by Aaron Stander
Saving June by Hannah Harrington
South of Hell by P.J. Parrish
Stitches by David Small
Shameless by Tori Carrington
Starting From Here

My home state! I read this in college.

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

More books set in Michigan:


The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
Tales from Michigan Stadium by Jim Brandstatter
Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean by Linda Cobb
The Tarnished Eye: A Novel of Suspense by Judith Guest
Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football by John U. Bacon
True North by Jim Harrison
Unending Devotion by Jody Hedlund
Unexpected Bride by Lisa Childs
Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill
Volition by Shawn Kirsten Maravel (1st book in Volition series)
Wake by Lisa McMann (1st book in Dream Catcher series)
Warlock by Jim Harrison
Watching People Burn by Julian Darius
The Wanigan: A Life on the River by Gloria Whelan
The Wedding Game: A Mystery at the University of Michigan by Susan Holtzer
What Happens When Women Wake Up? by Patricia Fero
Wheels by Arthur Hailey
When Evil Came to Good Hart by Mardi Jo Link
Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound by Nelson George
Where the Road Ends by Tara Taylor Quinn
Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman (1st Detroit Crime Mystery)
Whistle Stop: A Novel by Maritta Wolff
Winter Love by Norah Hess
The Witchfinder by Loren D. Estleman
Without a Trace by Colleen Coble (1st book in Rock Harbor series)
Wolf False Memoir by Jim Harrison
The Wolves of Isle Royale by L. David Mech
Women and the Lakes: Untold Great Lakes Maritime Tales by Frederick Stonehouse
The Woman Lit By Fireflies by Jim Harrison
A Woman's Place by Lynn Austin
Yobgorgle, Mystery Monster of Lake Ontario by Daniel Pinkwater

Diary of an Isle Royale School Teacher

The Greeks of Beaubien Street

A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman's Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan

A 1000-MILE GREAT LAKES WALK

Peter in Flight takes place in Michigan.

The Color of Water in July by Nora Carroll

Grab on to me Tightly as if I Knew the Way

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Asylum Lake by R.A. Evans