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Great Lakes Books in Order

Great Lakes contains 78 books, published between 1958 and 2020. The first book is Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens (1958) and the newest is I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
78
Published
1958–2020
Confirmed
78 of 78 titles
Pages on record
2,331 in 9 of 78 books
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Great Lakes is a multi-author series of 78 books dated 1958 to 2020, with subject tags for history, biography, Michigan, Detroit and the Great Lakes region. Charles K. Hyde is credited on 6 titles, and Joe Grimm and Mark L. Thompson on 3 each. The earliest is Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens (1958), followed by The Detroit Riot of 1967 (1969). Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit (1991) and Seasons of Grace, a history of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (1990), are also listed, and subject tags include baseball players and sea songs.

How many Great Lakes books are there?

Great Lakes has 78 books, released between 1958 and 2020.

Great Lakes Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 78 Great Lakes books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Call It North Country by John Bartlow Martin, book 5 of the Great Lakes series (1986)
  2. Cover of Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow by Robert Traver, book 6 of the Great Lakes series (1987)
  3. Cover of Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It by Joe Grimm (1987)
  4. Cover of Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit by Richard Bak, book 9 of the Great Lakes series
  5. Cover of Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 by Richard Bak (1994)
  6. Cover of The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes, book 13 of the Great Lakes series (1994)
  7. Cover of Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors, book 26 of the Great Lakes series (2002)
  8. Cover of Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum by Heidi Johnson (2004)
  9. Cover of Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton, book 38 of the Great Lakes series (2005)
  10. Cover of Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir by Neal Shine, book 45 of the Great Lakes series (2007)
  1. 1
    Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens1958 · confirmed 3/4
    1958–
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  2. 2
    The Detroit Riot of 19671969 · confirmed 3/4
    1969–
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  3. 3
    Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence1972 · confirmed 3/4
    1972–
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  4. 4
    Waiting for the Morning Train1972 · confirmed 3/4
    1972–
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  5. 5
    Call It North Country1986 · 281 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1986281
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  6. 6
    Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow1987 · 254 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987254
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  7. 7
    Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It1987 · 207 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987207
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  8. 8
    Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit1990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  9. 9
    Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit1991 · 383 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1991383
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  10. 10
    John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic1991 · confirmed 3/4
    1991–
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  11. 11
    Queen of the Lakes1994 · confirmed 3/4
    1994–
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  12. 12
    Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-19331994 · confirmed 3/4
    1994–
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  13. 13
    The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes1994 · 208 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994208
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  14. 14
    Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit1997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997–
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  15. 15
    The Long Winter Ends1998 · confirmed 3/4
    1998–
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  16. 16
    All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement1998 · confirmed 3/4
    1998–
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  17. 17
    Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson1998 · confirmed 3/4
    1998–
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  18. 18
    Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War1998 · confirmed 3/4
    1998–
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  19. 19
    Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake1999 · confirmed 3/4
    1999–
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  20. 20
    A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters1999 · confirmed 3/4
    1999–
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  21. 21
    "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-19682000 · confirmed 3/4
    2000–
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  22. 22
    Graveyard of the Lakes2000 · confirmed 3/4
    2000–
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  23. 23
    Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast2000 · confirmed 3/4
    2000–
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  24. 24
    History of the Finns in Michigan2001 · confirmed 3/4
    2001–
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  25. 25
    Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-18502002 · confirmed 3/4
    2002–
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  26. 26
    Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors2002 · 262 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2002262
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  27. 27
    Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War2003 · confirmed 3/4
    2003–
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  28. 28
    Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation2003 · confirmed 3/4
    2003–
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  29. 29
    The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-19142003 · confirmed 3/4
    2003–
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  30. 30
    Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan2003 · confirmed 3/4
    2003–
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Where to start with Great Lakes

Start with Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens (1958), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Great Lakes book?

I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I (2020) is the newest Great Lakes book released so far.

Is there a new Great Lakes book coming?

No next Great Lakes book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Great Lakes at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Great Lakes title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Great Lakes books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,331 pages across the 9 of 78 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Great Lakes books, 29 of 78, were published in the 2000s.
Attribution
Of the 78 titles, 6 are credited to Charles K. Hyde, 3 to Joe Grimm, 3 to Mark L. Thompson and 3 to David Gardner Chardavoyne. A further 76 writers are credited.

What the Great Lakes books are about

10 of the 78 Great Lakes books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: history is tagged on 6 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

  • History 6 of 10 books
  • Baseball players 2 of 10 books
  • Biography 2 of 10 books
  • Detroit (mich.), history 2 of 10 books
  • History and criticism 2 of 10 books
  • Michigan, history 2 of 10 books
  • Sea songs 2 of 10 books
  • Social life and customs 2 of 10 books