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‘The Harbinger’ tops weekly fiction best-sellers Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 07 May 2012 11:52 AM America/New_York

Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s prophetic novel, The Harbinger, has once again topped the weekly fiction best-sellers list. The list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association tracks sales for the week ending April 28, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. Indivisible, James Robison, Jay W. Richards (WaterBrook Press); 3. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 4. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 5. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 6. Dear Jesus, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 7. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 8. The Fiddler, “Home to Hickory Hollow,” No. 1, Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 9. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 10. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 11. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 12. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 13. S.H.A.P.E., Erik Rees (Zondervan); 14. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, Randy Alcorn (B&H Books); 15. Battlefield of the Mind, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords); 16. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson); 17. The Necessity of an Enemy, Ron Carpenter (WaterBrook Press); 18. Loving, “Bailey Flanigan Series,” No. 4, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 19. Kingdom Man, Tony Evans (Tyndale House Publishers); and 20. Made to Crave Devotional, Lysa TerKeurst (Zondervan).

The Top 10 Fiction best-sellers are: 1. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 2. The Fiddler, Lewis (Bethany House); 3. Loving, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 4. The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 5. Illusion, Frank Peretti (Howard Books); 6. The Heart’s Frontier, “The Amish of Apple Grove,” No. 1, Lori Copeland, Virginia Smith (Harvest House Publishers); 7. Her Mother’s Hope, “Marta’s Legacy,” No. 1, Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers); 8. Courageous, Randy Alcorn (Tyndale); 9. Downfall, “Intervention,” No. 3, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan); and 10. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis (HarperOne).

The top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, hardcover, New International Version (Zondervan); 2. NIV Adventure Bible (Zonderkidz); 3. NIV Thinline Bible, navy bonded (Zondervan); 4. NIV Life Application Study Bible, Personal Size, Italian Duo-Tone, bark/dark moss (Zondervan); and 5. NIV Life Application Study Bible, Personal Size, Italian Duo-Tone, orchid/chocolate (Zondervan).