Michigan Notable Books 2020 Author Conversations

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We are very excited to have been given permission by the Library of Michigan to share the Michigan Notable Books 2020 Author Conversations video series. Watch them now on KPL TV!

About Michigan Notable Books
Every year, the Library of Michigan selects up to twenty of the most notable books, either written by a Michigan resident or about Michigan or the Great Lakes. The selected books are honored in the year after their publication or copyright date.  Each selected title speaks to our state’s rich cultural, historical, and literary heritage and proves without a doubt that some of the greatest stories are found in the Great Lakes State. Learn more at Michigan.gov/NotableBooks.

The 2020 Michigan Notable Books are:

• A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father by David Maraniss
• All Manner of Things by Susie Finkbeiner
• Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises by Jodie Adams Kirshner
• Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography by James H. McCommons
• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
• Come See About Me, Marvin by Brian G. Gilmore
• Deadly Aim: The Civil War Story of Michigan’s Anishinaabe Sharpshooters by Sally M. Walker
• The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, A Family, and the Land That Healed Them by Dean Kuipers
• Detroit’s Birwood Wall: Hatred & Healing in the West Eight Mile Community by Gerald Van Dusen
• The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down by Abigail Pesta
• Guardians of Detroit: Architectural Sculpture in the Motor City by Jeff Morrison
• The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, An Intimate Portrait by Linda Solomon
• Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables by Abra Berens
• Shades: Detroit Love Stories by Esperanza Cintrón
• Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes by Pamela Cameron, illustrated by Renée Graef
• Teacher/Pizza Guy by Jeff Kass
• We Hope for Better Things by Erin Bartels
• Where Today Meets Tomorrow: Eero Saarinen and the General Motors Technical Center by Susan Skarsgard
• The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
• The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis