NY Times Bestseller List (NonFiction) March 29th 2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback NonFiction

Top Ten

Week Ending March 29th 2015

10 - Our Kids - Robert D. Putnam
(Debut)
A social scientist argues that income inequality is creating an "opportunity gap" for poor children that is destroying the American dream.

9 - Bettyville - George Hodgman
(Debut)
A New York editor returns to his Missouri hometown to care for his aging mother.

8 - Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon

(3 weeks on list)

7  -  What If? - Randall Munroe

(28 weeks on list)

6  -  H Is For Hawk - Helen Macdonald

(4 weeks on list)

5  -  Yes Please - Amy Poehler

(20 weeks on list)

4  -  Killing Patton - Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

(25 weeks on list)

3  -  Every Day I Fight - Stuart Scott with Larry Platt

(Debut)

A memoir by the ESPN anchor and commentator who died of cancer in January 2015.

2  -  Being Mortal - Atul Gawande

(23 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

1  -  DEAD WAKE - ERIK LARSON

(DEBUT)

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA, BY THE AUTHOR OF "DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY" and "IN THE GARDEN OF THE BEASTS"

Top Ten Horror Movies : 1990s

Happy Birthday Cale Yarborough

March 27th 2015 was the 76th birthday of racing legend 
Cale Yarborough.

Cale was the first driver to win 3 consecutive NASCAR Winston Cup Championships (1976, 1977, 1978)

He won 4 Daytona 500 races (1968, 1977, 1983 and 1984)

In 1967 he was voted NASCAR's most popular driver
He holds the modern NASCAR record for most pole wins in one season (14) in 1980

Winner of 4 Daytona Firecracker 400 races 
(1967, 1968, 1976, 1981)

In 2012 he was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Top 10 Horror Movies: 1980s

Sports Illustrated Cover of the Week

April 3rd 1978

Kentucky wins the NCAA Basketball championship

Jack "Goose" Givens scores 40 to lead the Wildcats over the Duke Blue Devils.

Dr. J (Julius Erving)

The short lived but much loved and colorful ABA (American Basketball Association) gave us one of if not the best basketball player ever.  The Doctor, Dr. J, Julius Erving literally jumped on to the American sport scene with his never before seen high flying dunks and big hair along with grace, skill and his off the chart shooting ability.

(winning his 2nd MVP trophy in 1975)

His ABA career started with the Virginia Squires but he soon landed in New York with the New York Nets and became the face of ABA and winning the ABA MVP Award 3 consecutive years: 1974, 1975 and 1976. 
 He did share the award in 1975 with George "Big Mac" McGinnis of the Indiana Pacers.

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1966

Top 10 Horror Movies: 1970s

Top 10 Horror Movies: 1960s

Top 10 British Male Comedians

Top 10 British Male Comedians

Top 10 Horror Movies - Pre-1960s

Top Ten Horror Movies

Pre-1960s

NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) March 22nd 2015

New York Times Bestseller List

Hardback Fiction

Top 10

Week Ending March 22nd 2015

10 - Mightier Than The Sword - Jeffrey Archer
(2 weeks on list)
In the 5th volume of the Clifton Chronicles, Harry Clifton becomes president of English PEN and works to free a Soviet writer.

9  -  The Whites - Richard Prince writing as Harry Brandt
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  Dead Heat - Patricia Briggs
(Debut)
Charles and Anna, married werewolves, must stop a dangerous Fae whom they encounter what begins as a pleasure trip. Book 4 of the Alpha and Omega series.

7  - Prodigal Son - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)
Twins, one good and one bad, reunited after 20 years when one of them returns to their hometown.

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

5  -  The Assassin - Clive Cussler
(Debut)
The detective Isaac Bell investigates the murders of opponents of the Standard Oil trust in 1905.

4  - A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler
(4 weeks on list)

3  -  Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
(Debut)
In a semi-historical ancient Britain, an elderly couple set out in search of their son.

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

1  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(8 weeks on list) (7 consecutive weeks at #1)
A psychological thriller set in London.