Sunscreen, sunglasses, towel, chair, a plastic-free feast… what else could you need for a day at the beach? How about a good book–no, a great book.
The Alliance staff compiled a list of Great Great Lakes books to read this summer while you’re enjoying the lakefront. These books are about the region, lakes, or by authors from the region. Next time you’re at the library, or your local bookstore, be sure to pick up one of these page turners.
Non-fiction
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas, by Jerry Dennis
Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes by Margaret Wooster
A 1,000-Mile Walk on the Beach: One Woman’s Trek of the Perimeter of Lake Michigan by Loreen Niewenhuis
Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes by Ed Butts
Pandora’s Locks by Jeff Alexander
The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin
Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis by Andrew Reeves
Five years, almost to the day, after I started writing a book proposal @wwnorton will publish the #GreatLakes book. Out March 7. pic.twitter.com/EexbHh6IVp — Dan Egan (@danpatrickegan) March 3, 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Fiction
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Legend of Sleepy Bear by Kathy-Jo Wargin
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros View this post on Instagram
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Branch will Not Break: Poems by James Wright
Nancy Drew: Danger on the Great Lakes by Carolyn Keene
The Great Lakes Avengers by Zac Gorman