Curbed Detroit's 40 Essential Books About Detroit

[Lowell]

Since we have a little more time to read, how about this nice collection by Curbed Detroit. I copied their list below, but for details and descriptions of each book visit Curbed Detroit's 40 ESSENTIAL BOOKS ABOUT DETROIT page.

HISTORY

• The Dawn of Detroit by Tiya Miles
• Detroit: I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
• Terror in the City of Champions by Tom Stanton
• The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
• This Is Detroit by Arthur M. Woodford
• Freer: A Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill

FOR DETROIT NEWBIES

• The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas J. Sugrue
• How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass by Aaron Foley
• [[Further reading: The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook by Aaron Foley)
• Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli
• Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
• Detroit: A Biography by Scott Martelle

FOR ARCHITECTURE BUFFS

• Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael H. Hodges
• [[Further reading: The Legacy of Albert Kahn by W. Hawkins Ferry)
• Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture by Michael G. Smith
• The Buildings of Detroit: A History by W. Hawkins Ferry
• Where Today Meets Tomorrow by Susan Skarsgard
• Forgotten Landmarks of Detroit by Dan Austin
• [[Further reading: Lost Detroit by Dan Austin)

FOR URBANISTS

• Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies edited by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani
• The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
• [[Further reading: Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook by James Boggs)
• Detroit Resurrected: To Bankruptcy and Back by Nathan Bomey
• Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City edited by June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering
• Detroit: The Dream Is Now by Michel Arnaud
• From Curbed’s list of the 101 essential books about cities
• Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City by Heather Ann Thompson

FOR YOUR BOOK CLUB

• City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Wrestling with the Muse by Melba Joyce Boyd
• A Detroit Anthology edited by Anna Clark
• Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
• Dopefiend by Donald Goines
• The Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle

FOR NOSTALGISTS

• Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young by Coleman A. Young
• The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young edited by Bill McGraw)
• Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
• Hidden History of Detroit by Amy Elliott Bragg
• Black Detroit: A People’s History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd
• Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper
• Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story by David Maraniss