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Keller’s ‘The Reason for God’ makes weekly best-sellers Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 12 December 2011 10:35 AM America/New_York

Reformed thinker and popular pastor Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God has landed on the Top 20 General best-sellers list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). The apologetics title from Penguin Group (USA) sits at No. 6 on the list tracking sales for the week ending Dec. 3, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 2. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 3. Longing, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 3, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 4. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson); 5. Heaven Is for Real for Kids, Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 6. The Reason for God, Timothy Keller, softcover (Dutton Adult); 7. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 8. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 9. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 10. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 11. Courageous, Randy Alcorn, Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (B&H Books); 12. Every Day a Friday, Joel Osteen (FaithWords); 13. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 14. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson); 15. The Resolution for Men, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick, Randy Alcorn (B&H Books); 16. Love & Respect, Emerson Eggerichs (Thomas Nelson); 17. Through My Eyes, Tim Tebow (Harper); 18. Luke, “Tyndale New Testament Commentaries,” Leon Morris (IVP Academic); 19. The Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook, J. Daniel Hays and J. Scott Duvall, eds. (Baker Books/Baker Publishing Group); and 20. Radical by David Platt (Multnomah Books).

Top 10 Fiction: 1. Longing; 2. Courageous; 3. The Tehran Initiative by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale); 4. Learning, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 2, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 5. Leaving, “Bailey Flanigan Series” No. 1, Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, Wanda E. Brunstetter, et al. (Barbour Publishing); 7. The Wonder of Your Love, “Land of Canaan” No. 2, Beth Wiseman (Thomas Nelson); 8. The Mercy, “Rose Trilogy” No. 3, Beverly Lewis; 9. Her Mother’s Hope, “Marta’s Legacy” No. 1, Francine Rivers (Tyndale); and 10. Shadow in Serenity, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan).

Top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, NIV (Zondervan); 2. God Sightings: The One Year Bible, NLT (Tyndale House Publishers); 3. Adventure Bible, NIV (Zonderkidz); 4. The One Year Study Bible, softcover, NLT (Tyndale); and 5. NIV Life Application Study Bible, Italian Duo-Tone, carmel/dark carmel (Zondervan).