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William Greenleaf
American author William Greenleaf is best known for the *Tad Peters* series and the *Clarion* trilogy. His novels have sold over 500,000 copies. This page provides the William Greenleaf books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1958Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens(By: Harry Barnard,David L. Lewis)POoGLB · 1Buy ↗
1969The Detroit Riot of 1967(By: Hubert G. Locke)POoGLB · 2Buy ↗
1972Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence(By: B.J. Widick,Horace L. Sheffield Jr.)POoGLB · 3Buy ↗
1972Waiting for the Morning Train(By: Bruce Catton,William B. Catton)POoGLB · 4Buy ↗
1990Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit(By: Leslie Woodcock Tentler,Edmund Cardinal Szoka)POoGLB · 8Buy ↗
1991Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit(By: Richard Bak)POoGLB · 9Buy ↗
1991John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic(By: John D. Haeger)POoGLB · 10Buy ↗
1994Queen of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson)POoGLB · 11Buy ↗
1994Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933(By: Richard Bak)POoGLB · 12Buy ↗
1994The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes(By: Charles K. Hyde,Ann Mahan,John Mahan)POoGLB · 13Buy ↗
1997Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit(By: June Manning Thomas)POoGLB · 14Buy ↗
1998The Long Winter Ends(By: Newton G. Thomas,William Mulligan)POoGLB · 15Buy ↗
1998All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement(By: Carlotta R. Anderson)POoGLB · 16Buy ↗
1998Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson(By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey)POoGLB · 17Buy ↗
1998Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War(By: Frank B. Woodford,Arthur M. Woodford)POoGLB · 18Buy ↗
1999Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake(By: Napier Shelton)POoGLB · 19Buy ↗
1999A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters(By: Mark L. Thompson)POoGLB · 20Buy ↗
2000"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968(By: Sidney Fine)POoGLB · 21Buy ↗
2000Graveyard of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson)POoGLB · 22Buy ↗
2000Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast(By: William Ashworth)POoGLB · 23Buy ↗
2001History of the Finns in Michigan(By: Armas K.E. Holmio,Ellen M. Ryynanen)POoGLB · 24Buy ↗
2002Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850(By: R. Alan Douglas)POoGLB · 25Buy ↗
2002Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan Walton)POoGLB · 26Buy ↗
2003Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War(By: Leroy Barnett)POoGLB · 27Buy ↗
2003Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Charles K. Hyde)POoGLB · 28Buy ↗
2003The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914(By: Jean Lamarre)POoGLB · 29Buy ↗
2003Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan(By: Elizabeth B. Sherman)POoGLB · 30Buy ↗
2003A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law(By: David Gardner Chardavoyne)POoGLB · 31Buy ↗
2003Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company(By: Charles K. Hyde,J.C. Long)POoGLB · 32Buy ↗
2004Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum(By: Heidi Johnson)POoGLB · 33Buy ↗
2004Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood(By: Anne-Marie Oomen)POoGLB · 34Buy ↗
2004To Keep the South Manitou Light(By: Anna Egan Smucker)POoGLB · 35Buy ↗
2005"I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry(By: Robert Beasecker,William M. Anderson)POoGLB · 36Buy ↗
2005The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy(By: Charles K. Hyde)POoGLB · 37Buy ↗
2005Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan H. Walton)POoGLB · 38Buy ↗
2005Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils(By: Charles Ferguson Barker)POoGLB · 39Buy ↗
2006My Forty Years With Ford(By: John Kenneth Galbraith)POoGLB · 40Buy ↗
2006House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education(By: Anne-Marie Oomen)POoGLB · 41Buy ↗
2007A Pocketful of Passage(By: Loraine Campbell)POoGLB · 42Buy ↗
2007Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005(By: Marijean Levering)POoGLB · 43Buy ↗
2007A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke(By: William H. Mulligan Jr.)POoGLB · 44Buy ↗
2007Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir(By: Neal Shine)POoGLB · 45Buy ↗
2007When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45(By: Neal Shine,Robert E. Quirk)POoGLB · 46Buy ↗
2008Who's Jim Hines?(By: Jean Alicia Elster)POoGLB · 47Buy ↗
2009Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors(By: Charles K. Hyde)POoGLB · 48Buy ↗
2009Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Anthony J. Yanik)POoGLB · 49Buy ↗
2010The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights(By: Steve Babson,Dave Riddle,David Elsila)POoGLB · 50Buy ↗
2016A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek(By: Gerald Wykes)POoGLB · 65Buy ↗
2016Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes(By: William Rapai)POoGLB · 66Buy ↗
2017Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture(By: MichaelG.Smith)POoGLB · 67Buy ↗
2017To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey(By: Barbara Carney-Coston)POoGLB · 68Buy ↗
2017Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities(By: Gary S. Sands)POoGLB · 69Buy ↗
2017Survival and Regeneration: Detroit�s American Indian Community(By: Edmund Jefferson Danziger Jr.)POoGLB · 70Buy ↗
2018Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company(By: C. Roger Pellett)POoGLB · 71Buy ↗
2018Bold Boys in Michigan History(By: Patricia Majher)POoGLB · 72Buy ↗
2018John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age(By: Brian C. Wilson)POoGLB · 73Buy ↗
2018Rosie, A Detroit Herstory(By: Bailey Sisoy Isgro)POoGLB · 74Buy ↗
2020Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit(By: Alesia Montgomery)POoGLB · 75Buy ↗
2020What the Chickadee Knows(By: Margaret Noodin)POoGLB · 76Buy ↗
2020A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan(By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman Jr)POoGLB · 77Buy ↗
2020I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier�s Account of World War I(By: Hilary Connor)POoGLB · 78Buy ↗
Publication Order of Great Lakes Books78 books · 1958–2020
01Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens(By: Harry Barnard,David L. Lewis)1958Buy ↗
02The Detroit Riot of 1967(By: Hubert G. Locke)1969Buy ↗
03Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence(By: B.J. Widick,Horace L. Sheffield Jr.)1972Buy ↗
04Waiting for the Morning Train(By: Bruce Catton,William B. Catton)1972Buy ↗
05Call It North Country(By: John Bartlow Martin)1986Buy ↗
06Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow(By: Robert Traver)1987Buy ↗
07Michigan Voices: Our State�s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It(By: Joe Grimm)1987Buy ↗
08Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit(By: Leslie Woodcock Tentler,Edmund Cardinal Szoka)1990Buy ↗
09Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit(By: Richard Bak)1991Buy ↗
10John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic(By: John D. Haeger)1991Buy ↗
11Queen of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson)1994Buy ↗
12Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933(By: Richard Bak)1994Buy ↗
13The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes(By: Charles K. Hyde,Ann Mahan,John Mahan)1994Buy ↗
14Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit(By: June Manning Thomas)1997Buy ↗
15The Long Winter Ends(By: Newton G. Thomas,William Mulligan)1998Buy ↗
16All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement(By: Carlotta R. Anderson)1998Buy ↗
17Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson(By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey)1998Buy ↗
18Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War(By: Frank B. Woodford,Arthur M. Woodford)1998Buy ↗
19Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake(By: Napier Shelton)1999Buy ↗
20A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters(By: Mark L. Thompson)1999Buy ↗
21"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968(By: Sidney Fine)2000Buy ↗
22Graveyard of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson)2000Buy ↗
23Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast(By: William Ashworth)2000Buy ↗
24History of the Finns in Michigan(By: Armas K.E. Holmio,Ellen M. Ryynanen)2001Buy ↗
25Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850(By: R. Alan Douglas)2002Buy ↗
26Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan Walton)2002Buy ↗
27Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War(By: Leroy Barnett)2003Buy ↗
28Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Charles K. Hyde)2003Buy ↗
29The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914(By: Jean Lamarre)2003Buy ↗
30Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan(By: Elizabeth B. Sherman)2003Buy ↗
31A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law(By: David Gardner Chardavoyne)2003Buy ↗
32Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company(By: Charles K. Hyde,J.C. Long)2003Buy ↗
33Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum(By: Heidi Johnson)2004Buy ↗
34Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood(By: Anne-Marie Oomen)2004Buy ↗
35To Keep the South Manitou Light(By: Anna Egan Smucker)2004Buy ↗
36"I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry(By: Robert Beasecker,William M. Anderson)2005Buy ↗
37The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy(By: Charles K. Hyde)2005Buy ↗
38Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan H. Walton)2005Buy ↗
39Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils(By: Charles Ferguson Barker)2005Buy ↗
40My Forty Years With Ford(By: John Kenneth Galbraith)2006Buy ↗
41House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education(By: Anne-Marie Oomen)2006Buy ↗
42A Pocketful of Passage(By: Loraine Campbell)2007Buy ↗
43Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005(By: Marijean Levering)2007Buy ↗
44A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke(By: William H. Mulligan Jr.)2007Buy ↗
45Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir(By: Neal Shine)2007Buy ↗
46When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45(By: Neal Shine,Robert E. Quirk)2007Buy ↗
47Who's Jim Hines?(By: Jean Alicia Elster)2008Buy ↗
48Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors(By: Charles K. Hyde)2009Buy ↗
49Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Anthony J. Yanik)2009Buy ↗
50The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights(By: Steve Babson,Dave Riddle,David Elsila)2010Buy ↗
51Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent(With: David L. Lewis)2011Buy ↗
52Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006(By: Terry S. Reynolds,Virginia P. Dawson)2011Buy ↗
53The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull(By: Anthony J. Yanik)2011Buy ↗
54Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake(By: John Gagnon)2012Buy ↗
55The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics(By: David G. Chardavoyne)2012Buy ↗
56Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal(By: Mark Hoffman,William Horton Kimball)2013Buy ↗
57The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise(By: Jayne Morris-Crowther)2013Buy ↗
58The Colored Car(By: Jean Alicia Elster)2013Buy ↗
59Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II(By: Charles K. Hyde)2013Buy ↗
60"Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War(By: PaulTaylor)2013Buy ↗
61Great Girls in Michigan History(By: Patricia Majher)2015Buy ↗
62Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit(By: Julia Marie Robinson)2015Buy ↗
63Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years(By: Sidney Olsen)2015Buy ↗
64Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933(By: Michael W. Nagle)2015Buy ↗
65A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek(By: Gerald Wykes)2016Buy ↗
66Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes(By: William Rapai)2016Buy ↗
67Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture(By: MichaelG.Smith)2017Buy ↗
68To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey(By: Barbara Carney-Coston)2017Buy ↗
69Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities(By: Gary S. Sands)2017Buy ↗
70Survival and Regeneration: Detroit�s American Indian Community(By: Edmund Jefferson Danziger Jr.)2017Buy ↗
71Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company(By: C. Roger Pellett)2018Buy ↗
72Bold Boys in Michigan History(By: Patricia Majher)2018Buy ↗
73John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age(By: Brian C. Wilson)2018Buy ↗
74Rosie, A Detroit Herstory(By: Bailey Sisoy Isgro)2018Buy ↗
75Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit(By: Alesia Montgomery)2020Buy ↗
76What the Chickadee Knows(By: Margaret Noodin)2020Buy ↗
77A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan(By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman Jr)2020Buy ↗
78I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier�s Account of World War I(By: Hilary Connor)2020Buy ↗