Thomas Nelson titles top ECPA list

Written by Eric Tiansay

Monday, 04 January 2010 03:49 PM America/New_York

Sarah Young's Jesus Calling and Max Lucado's Fearless (both Thomas Nelson) head the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) January top 50 best-seller list.

The top 10 chart find Young and Lucado followed by: 3. Crazy Love by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); 4. Going Rogue: An American Life by Sarah Palin (HarperCollins/Zondervan); 5. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group); 6. Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 7. The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick (B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group); 8. The Love Dare Day by Day by Stephen and Alex Kendrick (B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group); 9. Forgotten God by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); and 10. 3:16 by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson).

The top 10 selling Bibles for the month are: 1. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 2. ESV Outreach New Testament (Crossway); 3. ESV Outreach New Testament, Christmas wreath design (Crossway); 4. God Sightings: The One Year Bible, NLT, paperback (Tyndale House Publishers); 5. Chronological Study Bible, NKJV, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 6. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zondervan); 7. The Word of Promise Audio Bible (Thomas Nelson); 8. God Sightings: The One Year Bible, NIV, paperback (Tyndale House Publishers); 9. NIV Outreach Bible (Zondervan); and 10. Gift and Award Bible, KJV, black 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.

Click here to see the ECPA's January best-seller lists in full.