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The Best-Selling Sports Books

The best-selling sports books in March 2015, according to the New York Times best-seller list.

1. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT, by Daniel James Brown (Penguin). The University of Washington’s eight-oar crew and its quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

2. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House). An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II; now a movie.

3. H IS FOR HAWK, by Helen Macdonald (Grove/Atlantic). A British woman, who is also a lifelong falconer, raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of this Arthurian sport even as she reflects and quotes from T.