William Greenleaf Reading Order
2 series · 85 books
William Greenleaf was an American novelist known for his engaging storytelling and diverse writing style. Over his active career from 1958 to 2020, he authored 85 books that span two series, including intriguing standalone novels and the Great Lakes collection. His notable works reflect his compelling narratives and deep character development, captivating readers across multiple genres.
Great Lakes Series
Complete78 books (1958–2020)
Start with Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens(By: Harry Barnard,David L. Lewis), the first of 78 books in the Great Lakes series.
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| 1 | Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens(By: Harry Barnard,David L. Lewis) 1958Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | The Detroit Riot of 1967(By: Hubert G. Locke) 1969Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence(By: B.J. Widick,Horace L. Sheffield Jr.) 1972Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Waiting for the Morning Train(By: Bruce Catton,William B. Catton) 1972Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Call It North Country(By: John Bartlow Martin) 1986Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow(By: Robert Traver) 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It(By: Joe Grimm) 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit(By: Leslie Woodcock Tentler,Edmund Cardinal Szoka) 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit(By: Richard Bak) 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic(By: John D. Haeger) 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Queen of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes(By: Charles K. Hyde,Ann Mahan,John Mahan) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933(By: Richard Bak) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit(By: June Manning Thomas) 1997Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement(By: Carlotta R. Anderson) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War(By: Frank B. Woodford,Arthur M. Woodford) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | The Long Winter Ends(By: Newton G. Thomas,William Mulligan) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson(By: Sunnie Wilson,John Cohassey) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters(By: Mark L. Thompson) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake(By: Napier Shelton) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968(By: Sidney Fine) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | Graveyard of the Lakes(By: Mark L. Thompson) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast(By: William Ashworth) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | History of the Finns in Michigan(By: Armas K.E. Holmio,Ellen M. Ryynanen) 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850(By: R. Alan Douglas) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan Walton) 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law(By: David Gardner Chardavoyne) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan(By: Elizabeth B. Sherman) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War(By: Leroy Barnett) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Charles K. Hyde) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company(By: Charles K. Hyde,J.C. Long) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 | The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914(By: Jean Lamarre) 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum(By: Heidi Johnson) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood(By: Anne-Marie Oomen) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | To 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 🇺🇸 |
| 37 |  Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton(By: Joe Grimm,Ivan H. Walton) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 | The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy(By: Charles K. Hyde) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 39 | Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils(By: Charles Ferguson Barker) 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 40 | House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education(By: Anne-Marie Oomen) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 41 | My Forty Years With Ford(By: John Kenneth Galbraith) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 42 | A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke(By: William H. Mulligan Jr.) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 43 | A Pocketful of Passage(By: Loraine Campbell) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 44 | Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005(By: Marijean Levering) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 45 |  Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir(By: Neal Shine) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 46 | When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45(By: Neal Shine,Robert E. Quirk) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 47 | Who's Jim Hines?(By: Jean Alicia Elster) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 48 | Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation(By: Anthony J. Yanik) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 49 | Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors(By: Charles K. Hyde) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 50 | The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights(By: Steve Babson,Dave Riddle,David Elsila) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 51 | Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006(By: Terry S. Reynolds,Virginia P. Dawson) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 52 | Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent(With: David L. Lewis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 53 | The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull(By: Anthony J. Yanik) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 54 | Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake(By: John Gagnon) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 55 | The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics(By: David G. Chardavoyne) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 56 | "Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War(By: PaulTaylor) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 57 | Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal(By: Mark Hoffman,William Horton Kimball) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 58 | Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II(By: Charles K. Hyde) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 59 | The Colored Car(By: Jean Alicia Elster) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 60 | The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise(By: Jayne Morris-Crowther) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 61 | Great Girls in Michigan History(By: Patricia Majher) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 62 | Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933(By: Michael W. Nagle) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 63 | Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit(By: Julia Marie Robinson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 64 | Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years(By: Sidney Olsen) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 65 | A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek(By: Gerald Wykes) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 66 | Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes(By: William Rapai) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 67 | Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture(By: MichaelG.Smith) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 68 | Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities(By: Gary S. Sands) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 69 | Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community(By: Edmund Jefferson Danziger Jr.) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 70 | To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey(By: Barbara Carney-Coston) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 71 | Bold Boys in Michigan History(By: Patricia Majher) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 72 | John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age(By: Brian C. Wilson) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 73 | Rosie, A Detroit Herstory(By: Bailey Sisoy Isgro) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 74 | Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company(By: C. Roger Pellett) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 75 | A 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 🇺🇸 |
| 76 | Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit(By: Alesia Montgomery) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 77 | I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I(By: Hilary Connor) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 78 | What the Chickadee Knows(By: Margaret Noodin) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete7 books (1980–2016)
Start with Time Jumper, the first of 7 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has William Greenleaf written?
- William Greenleaf has written 85 books across 2 series. Their published works span from 1958 to 2020.
- What is the first book in each William Greenleaf series?
- Here are the first books in William Greenleaf's series: Great Lakes: Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens(By: Harry Barnard,David L. Lewis).
- What order should I read William Greenleaf's books?
- We recommend reading William Greenleaf's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are William Greenleaf's series complete?
- William Greenleaf has 2 completed series.