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‘The Love Dare’ makes ECPA best-sellers list Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 21 November 2011 10:04 AM America/New_York

While the related “Resolution” books have dropped off the general best-sellers this week, the novelization of hit film Courageous is going strong and The Love Dare—harking back to previous Sherwood Pictures’ film Fireproof—has appeared once again on the general weekly best-sellers list for sales ending Nov. 12, according to Pubtrack Christian data from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

The general Top 20 list is: 1. Heaven is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 2. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 3. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 4. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 5. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 6. Courageous, Randy Alcorn, Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick (B&H Books); 7. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 8. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 9. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 10. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 11. Radical, David Platt (Multnomah Books); 12. Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions for Kids, Sarah Young, Tamara Fortner (Thomas Nelson); 13. Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (Harper); 14. So Long, Insecurity, Beth Moore (Tyndale House Publishers); 15. Akiane, Akiane Kramarik (Thomas Nelson); 16. The Love Dare, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (B&H Books); 17. A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, Wanda E. Brunstetter, et al. (Barbour Publishing); 18. Love That Goes the Distance, Jud Wilhite (Baker Books); 19. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson); and 20. Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs (Thomas Nelson).

The fiction Top 10: 1. Courageous; 2. A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, Wanda E. Brunstetter, et al. (Barbour Publishing); 3. Leaving, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 4. Learning, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 5. A Lineage of Grace, Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers); 6. Redeeming Love, Rivers (Multnomah Publishers); 7. Her Mother’s Hope, Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers); 8. The Twelfth Imam, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale); 9. The Brotherhood, Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale House Publishers); and 10. Code Triage, Candace Calvert (Tyndale House Publishers).

Top five Bibles: 1. The Story, NIV, hardcover (Zondervan); 2. The Life Recovery Bible Personal Size, NLT, softcover (Tyndale House Publishers); 3. NIV True Images, imitation leather, chocolate/bubble gum (Zondervan); 4. The Story: Teen Edition, NIV, softcover (Zondervan); and 5. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zonderkidz).