Karen Kingsbury fiction tops general best-seller list Print
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 09 April 2012 11:43 AM America/New_York

Karen Kingsbury's Loving surpasses the top-selling Jesus Calling on the General top 20 best-seller list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, tracking sales for the week ending March 31, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Loving, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 4, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 2. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 3. The Necessity of an Enemy, Ron Carpenter (WaterBrook Press); 4. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 5. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 6. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 7. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 8. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 9. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 10. Dear Jesus, Young (Thomas Nelson); 11. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, Randy Alcorn (B&H Books); 12. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 13. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 14. The Resolution for Women, Priscilla Shirer (B&H Books); 15. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 16. Let It Go, T.D. Jakes (Howard Books); 17. Kingdom Man, Tony Evans (Tyndale House Publishers); 18. Longing, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 3, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 19. Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker, hardcover (Harper); and 20. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, softcover (Thomas Nelson).

The Top 10 Fiction best-sellers are: 1. Loving, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 4, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 2. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 3. Longing, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 3, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 4. Downfall, "Intervention," No. 3, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan); 5. Leaving, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 1, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Learning, "Bailey Flanigan Series," No. 2, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 7. Illusion, Frank Peretti (Howard Books); 8. The Fiddler, "Home to Hickory Hollow," No. 1, Beverly Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 9. Intervention, "Intervention," No. 1, Blackstock (Zondervan); and 10. Courageous, Randy Alcorn, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (Tyndale House Publishers).

The top five Bibles are: 1. New Spirit-Filled Life Bible, Jack Hayford, general editor, hardcover, New King James Version (Thomas Nelson); 2. The Life Recovery Bible, softcover, New Living Translation (Tyndale House Publishers); 3. Sequin Bible, softcover, pink, International Children's Bible (Thomas Nelson); 4. ESV Pew and Worship Bible, hardcover, black, English Standard Version (Crossway); and 5. Adventure Bible for Early Readers, NirV, hardcover, New International Reader's Version (Zonderkidz).