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
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