NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (03/27/2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending March 27th 2016

10 - Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
(33 weeks on list)

9  -  Cometh The Hour - Jeffrey Archer
(4 weeks on list)

8  - The Waters of Eternal Youth - Donna Leon
(Debut)
Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked to investigate the "accidental" near-drowning of a girl 15 years ago.  the 25th novel in the series.

7  -  The Steel Kiss - Jeffery Deaver
(Debut)
Lincoln Rhyme and his new assistant, also a paraplegic, investigate a domestic terrorist who sabotages equipment.

6  -  The Gangster - Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
(2 weeks on list)

5  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(54 weeks on list)

4  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(61 weeks on list)

3  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(97 weeks on list)

2  -  Fire Touched - Patricia Briggs 
(Debut)
The shape-shifter Mercy Thompson and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, protect a stolen human child.

1  -  Off The Grid - C.J. Box
(Debut)
The 16th Joe Pickett novel features Nate Romanowski and a search for a domestic terror cell.

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Top 10 Historically Accurate Movies

Magazine Cover of the Week

The Andy Griffith Show

TV Guide

March 21st 1964

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Today in US History (President Eisenhower Dies)

March 28th 1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and one of the most highly regarded American generals of World War II, dies in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78.
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Classic Movie Poster of the Week

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

1966

Based on the season 4 episode "Haunted House" from the Andy Griffith Show, this expanded on that and gave us the classic nervous nellie Luther Heggs (played to perfection by Don Knotts) trying to spend the night in a so called haunted house.

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74th Academy Awards

March 24th 2002

The 74th Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles California.  The big winner was "A Beautiful Mind" which won four awards :

(Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard, Jennifer Connolly for Best Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay).  

Halle Berry was the winner for Best Actress for her role in "Monsters Ball" while Denzel Washington took home Best Actor for "Training Day".

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 03/20/2016

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending March 20th 2016

10 - Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(4 weeks on list)

9  -  The Widow - Fiona Barton
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
(32 weeks on list)

7  -  My Name Is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(8 weeks on list)

6  -  Cometh The Hour - Jeffrey Archer
(3 weeks on list)

5  -  A Girl's Guide To Moving On - Debbie Macomber
(2 weeks on list)

4  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(53 weeks on list)

3  -  The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins
(60 weeks on list)

2  - All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(96 weeks on list)

1  -  The Gangster - Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
(Debut)
In the ninth book in this series, set in 1906, the New York detective Isaac Bell contends with a crime boss passing as a respectable businessman and a tycoon's plot against President Theodore Roosevelt.

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What's My Line? - Jan. 23rd, 1955 Dennis Day

Top 10 Underrated Movies of All Time

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Magazine Cover of the Week

Newsweek 

December 2nd 1963

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Top 10 Underrated Movies of the 1990s

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Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

August 22nd 1966

Paul Hornung (1961) and Jim Taylor (1962)

Back To Back NFL MVPs

WE LOVE BONANZA!

March 13th 1965

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Top 10 Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winners

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction (03/13/2016)

New York Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending March 13th 2016

10 - NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(5 weeks on list)

9  -  Brotherhood in Death - J.D. Robb
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  My Name Is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(7 weeks on list)

7  -  Wedding Cake Murder - Joanne Fluke(Debut)
The Lake Eden, MN., baker Hannah Swensen is about to get married, but first she must solve the murder of a visiting celebrity chef.

6  -  Cometh The Hour - Jeffery Archer
(2nd week on list)  (last week's #1)

5  -  Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
(31 weeks on list)

4  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(52 weeks on list)

3  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(59 weeks on list)

2  -  A Girl's Guide To Moving On - Debbie Macomber 
(Debut)
A mother and her daughter-in-law both leave unhappy marriages an take up with new men.

1  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(95 Weeks on list)
The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.

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Classic Movie Poster of the Week

The Departed 

2006

Winner of the Academy Award

Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorsese

Top 10 Comedy Trilogies

Magazine Cover of the Week

TV Guide 

March 9, 1963 

(Donna Douglass and Buddy Ebsen of the Beverly Hillbillies)

The Beverly Hillbillies was the #1 show in prime time network programming for the 1962-63 season and aired at 9pm on Wednesday nights on CBS.

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Old Time Radio Show of the Week

The Mysterious Traveler

"Death is the Visitor"

August 25th 1946

We're going to pay a visit to the home of Albert and Louise Jordan, the nicest couple you could hope to meet. The story begins at the Jordan home on a late summer night. Albert Jordan is asleep and is having a nightmare in which his mother-in-law torments and taunts him. Louise awakens him to ease his nightmare and warns him to please be quiet because his mother-in-law needs a good night's sleep for her trip tomorrow.

1964 NBA MVP

Oscar Robertson 

(Cincinnati Royals)

1964 NBA MVP

31.4 points per game

840 field goals made

868 Assists

85%  Free throw pct.

9 rebounds per game

Led the Royals to the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics.

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NY Times Bestseller List (03/06/2016)

New York Times Bestseller List

Hard Back Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending March 6th 2016

10 - Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
(18 weeks on list)

9  -  Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
(30 weeks on list)

8  -  My Name Is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(6 weeks on list)

7  -  Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(2 weeks on list)

6  -  NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Brotherhood In Death - J.D. Robb
(3 weeks on list)

4  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
(51 weeks on list)

3  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(58 weeks on list)

2  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(94 weeks on list)

1  -  Cometh The Hour - Jeffrey Archer
(Debut)
The sixth and penultimate book of the Clifton Chronicles brings the Cliftons and the Barringtons into the 1970s.

Top 25 of Japan Billboard Hot 100 (2016/03/07)

Top 25 

Week Ending March 7th 2016

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We Love Bonanza!

March 2nd 1968

Lorne Greene and David Canary

Magazine Cover of the Week

TIME Magazine 

Person of the Year 2003

The American Soldier

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 02/28/2016

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending February 28th 2016

10 - Breakdown - Johnathan Kellerman
(2 weeks on list)
The psychologist Alex Delaware and the L.A.P.D. Lt. Milo Sturgis search for the missing son of a troubled actress.

9  -  Blue - Danielle Steel
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 
(50 weeks on list)

7  -  My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(57 weeks on list)

5  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(93 weeks on list)

4  -  Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(Debut)
The Boston detective D. D. Warren hunts for a missing woman who was kidnapped and abused as a college student and may have become a vigilante.

3  -  NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  Brotherhood in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)  (#1 last week)
Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD helps a friend and her husband solve a mystery involving politics and real estate.

1  -  Morning Star - Pierce Brown
(Debut)
In Book 3 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, Darrow incites a rebellion.

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