‘The Love Dare’ still atop ECPA chart

Written by Eric Tiansay

Thursday, 02 July 2009 02:56 PM America/New_York

There is little change at the top of the book and Bible best-sellers charts from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), this month.

Heading the July Top 50 books are: 1. The Love Dare by Stephen & Alex Kendrick (B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group); 2. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group USA); 3. Crazy Love by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); 4. What in the World Is Going On? by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson); 5. Take One by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs (Thomas Nelson); 7. Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 8. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers); 9. Grace for the Moment Morning & Evening Edition by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson); 10. The Love Dare, imitation leather edition (B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group).

Leading the July Top 20 Bibles are: 1. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 2. Outreach New Testament, ESV (Crossway Books & Bibles); 3. Thinline Bible, NIV black bonded leather (Zondervan); 4. Thinline Bible, NIV burgundy bonded leather (Zondervan); 5. Operation Worship Bible-NLT (Tyndale House Publishers); 6. Gift and Award Bible, KJV black leatherflex (Thomas Nelson); 7. Thinline Bible, NIV navy bonded leather (Zondervan); 8. Gift and Award Bible, KJV red leatherflex (Thomas Nelson); 9. Adventure Bible, NIV hardcover (Zondervan); 10. Gift and Award Bible, KJV blue leatherflex (Thomas Nelson).

The ECPA lists are drawn from Christian retail stores across the country, through its PubTrack Christian data system. Book lists are based on trade discounted titles selling in at least 20% of reporting stores. Tracts and booklets are excluded. To see the ECPA's July best-seller lists in full, go to http://www.ecpa.org.