'Heaven Is for Real' tops 'New York Times' list Print
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 03 February 2011 03:12 PM America/New_York
Heaven Is for Real

by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent (Thomas Nelson) was ranked No. 1 on the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction best-seller list for the weeks of Jan. 23 and Jan. 30.

Published in November, Burpo's account of his young son's near-death experience of heaven has also done well on the best-seller lists of USA Today, Publishers Weekly and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Nearly 500,000 copies of the book are in print, Nelson officials said.