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Readers eating up ‘Made to Crave’ titles Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 23 January 2012 10:06 AM America/New_York

Lysa TerKeurst’s “Made to Crave” titles are going strong on the weekly Top 20 General best-sellers list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) tracking sales for the week ending Jan. 14, according to Pubtrack Christian data. TerKeurst aims to empower women spiritually so they can be healthy physically in Made to Crave, at No. 3 on the list, and its companion devotional, at No. 8.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 3. Made to Crave, Lysa TerKeurst (Zondervan); 4. Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow, hardcover (Harper); 5. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 6. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 7. The Fasting Edge, Jentezen Franklin (Charisma House); 8. Made to Crave Devotional, TerKeurst (Zondervan); 9. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 10. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 11. Heaven Is for Real for Kids, Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 12. The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, Kevin & Alex Malarkey (Tyndale House Publishers); 13. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 14. Real Marriage, Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (Thomas Nelson); 15. The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge, Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker (Tyndale); 16. Longing, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 3, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 17. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords); 18. Radical, David Platt (Multnomah Books); 19. Akiane, Akiane Kramarik (Thomas Nelson); and 20. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, Randy Alcorn (B&H Books).

Top 10 Fiction: 1. Longing; 2. Courageous, Randy Alcorn, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (B&H Books); 3. Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers (Multnomah Books); 4. The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale); 5. Learning, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 2, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Leaving, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 1, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 7. The Keeper, “Stoney Ridge Seasons,” No. 1, Suzanne Woods Fisher (Revell/Baker Publishing Group); 8. Love Finds a Way, Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 9. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis, softcover (HarperOne); and 10. The Maid of Fairbourne Hall, Julie Klassen (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group).

Top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, NIV, hardcover (Zondervan); 2. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zonderkidz); 3. KJV Large Print Pew Bible, red, hardcover (Hendrickson Publishers); 4. The Story: Teen Edition, NIV, softcover (Zonderkidz); and 5. NIV Life Application Study Bible, Italian Duo-Tone, caramel/dark caramel (Zondervan).