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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday the Library of Michigan released the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/mnb/previous-notables/2025-michigan-notable-books">
2025 Michigan Notable Books list</a>. We are grateful to the Detroit Free Press for their continued collaboration in announcing the 2025 selections: <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2025/01/19/michigan-notable-books-20-of-the-states-best-offerings-from-2024/77692288007/">https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2025/01/19/michigan-notable-books-20-of-the-states-best-offerings-from-2024/77692288007/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The 20 titles on this 2025 Michigan Notable Books list are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer</b> by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. – Letterform Archive Books<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America</b> by Aaron Robertson – Farrar, Straus and Giroux<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>A Cast Away in Montana</b> by Tim Schulz – Lyons Press Robertson – Farrar, Straus and Giroux<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Funny Story: A Novel</b> by Emily Henry – Berkley<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Good Dress</b> by Brittany Rogers – Tin House Books<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>I Cheerfully Refuse: A Novel</b> by Leif Enger – Grove Press
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>The Lady with the Dark Hair</b> by Erin Bartels – Revell
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>The Lions Finally Roar: The Ford Family, the Detroit Lions, and the Road to Redemption in the NFL</b> by Bill Morris – Pegasus Books
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s</b> by Daniel J. Clark – University of Illinois Press
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry</b> by Anna Rose Johnson – Holiday House
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band
</b>by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki, and Ben Edmonds – Da Capo<b> </b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future</b> by Alice Randall – Atria/Black Privilege Publishing<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Old Time Hawkey's Recipes from the Cedar Swamp: A Cookbook</b> by Old Time Hawkey – DK
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Sail, Steam, and Diesel: Moving Cargo on the Great Lakes</b> by Eric Hirsimaki – Michigan State University Press
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>Searching for Van Gogh: A Novel</b> by Donald Lystra – Omena Hills Press
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between</b> by Gretchen Whitmer – Simon & Schuster<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>The Waters: A Novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell – W.W. Norton & Company
</b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing</b> by Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer – Seven Stories Press<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>What Can the Matter Be?
</b>by Keith Taylor – Wayne State University Press<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><b>When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City</b> by Felicia B. George – Wayne State University Press<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Additional information about the application process to host a 2025 MNB author during the Author Tour as well as graphics for promoting the list will soon be sent out over the next several weeks. The annual
<a href="https://www.libraryofmichiganfoundation.com/mnbnightfornotables">Night for Notables reception</a> is scheduled for Saturday, April 26, 2025. Be sure to look for all details around the Michigan Notable Books program by going to
<a href="http://www.michigan.gov/NotableBooks">www.Michigan.gov/NotableBooks</a>. Send questions to
<a href="mailto:Michigan-Notable-Books@michigan.gov">Michigan-Notable-Books@michigan.gov</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#006EB6;mso-ligatures:none">Adam Oster</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">, Community Engagement Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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