Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue-Tail Fly | 2006 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 2 | Broken Symmetry | 2006 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 3 | The Women Were Leaving the Men | 2007 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 4 | After-Music | 2008 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 5 | Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream | 2008 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 6 | Trespassing | 2008 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 7 | The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit | 2009 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 8 | If the World Becomes So Bright | 2009 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 9 | American Salvage | 2009 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 10 | By Cold Water | 2009 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 11 | As If We Were Prey | 2010 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 12 | Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain’t Never Been Told | 2010 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 13 | Voices of the Lost and Found | 2010 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 14 | An American Map | 2010 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 15 | In Which Brief Stories Are Told | 2011 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 16 | At The Bureau of Divine Music | 2011 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 17 | Love/Imperfect | 2011 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 18 | The Light Between | 2012 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 19 | To Embroider the Ground with Prayer | 2012 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 20 | The World of a Few Minutes Ago | 2012 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 21 | Allegiance | 2012 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 22 | Booker T & Them | 2012 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 23 | Practicing to Walk Like a Heron | 2013 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 24 | Earth Again | 2013 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 25 | Living Together | 2013 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 26 | Making Callaloo in Detroit | 2014 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 27 | Quality Snacks | 2014 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 28 | Love, Sex, and 4-H | 2015 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 29 | Know the Mother | 2016 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 30 | Sharp Blue Search of Flame | 2016 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 31 | I Want to Be Once | 2016 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 32 | States of Motion | 2017 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 33 | The Forgetting Tree | 2017 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 34 | The Lake Michigan Mermaid | 2018 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 35 | Field Recordings | 2018 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 36 | Meet Behind Mars | 2018 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 37 | Eden Springs | 2018 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 38 | I Got To Keep Moving | 2018 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 39 | Welcome to Replica Dodge | 2019 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 40 | Ragged Anthem | 2019 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 41 | Unblinking | 2019 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 42 | The Desk on the Sea | 2019 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 43 | Shades: Detroit Love Stories | 2019 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 44 | Gut Botany | 2020 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 45 | You’re in the Wrong Place | 2020 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 46 | A Fine Canopy | 2020 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 47 | You Are My Joy and Pain | 2020 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 48 | How Other People Make Love | 2021 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 49 | When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double | 2021 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 50 | Gun/Shy | 2021 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
| 51 | The Lake Huron Mermaid | 2024 | Bonnie Jo Campbell | Buy |
The Made in Michigan Writers series is published by Wayne State University Press and edited by Bonnie Jo Campbell. Launched in 2006, the series has grown to 51 titles and continues to publish new volumes. Each book in the series is by a writer with a connection to Michigan, and the titles span fiction, poetry, essays, and short story collections. The series is not a single continuous narrative but rather a curated line of individual books brought together under one editorial umbrella.
Titles in the series range widely in subject and style. Early entries like Blue-Tail Fly and Broken Symmetry (both 2006) set the tone, while more recent additions like The Lake Huron Mermaid (2024) show the series still going strong. The books are published roughly in order of their release dates, with several titles often appearing in the same year. For readers interested in Michigan writing, this series is one of the most thorough collections available.