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‘The Story’ again tops the Bibles best-seller list Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 30 April 2012 03:11 PM America/New_York

The Story has once again topped the weekly Bibles top five best-sellers. The list from Evangelical Christian Publishers Association track sales for the week ending April 21, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 3. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 4. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 5. The Fiddler, “Home to Hickory Hollow,” No. 1, Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 6. Dear Jesus, Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 7. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 8. Jesus Calling: Large Print Deluxe Edition, Young (Thomas Nelson); 9. Loving, “Bailey Flanigan Series,” No. 4, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 10. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 11. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 12. Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas (Thomas Nelson); 13. The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 14. Same Kind of Different as Me, Ron Hall, Denver Moore (Thomas Nelson); 15. Do Yourself a Favor…Forgive, Joyce Meyer (FaithWords); 16. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 17. Get Out of That Pit, Beth Moore (Thomas Nelson); 18. Twelve Extraordinary Women, John MacArthur (Thomas Nelson); 19. Kingdom Man, Tony Evans (Tyndale House Publishers); and 20. Nearing Home, Billy Graham (Thomas Nelson).

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. Downfall, “Intervention,” No. 3, Terri Blackstock (Zondervan); 8. Her Mother’s Hope, “Marta’s Legacy,” No. 1, Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers); 9. Longing, “Bailey Flanigan Series,” No. 3, Kingsbury (Zondervan); and 10. Her Daughter’s Dream, “Marta’s Legacy,” No. 2, Francine Rivers (Tyndale House Publishers).

The top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, hardcover, New International Version (Zondervan); 2. NIV Thinline Bible, Compact, Italian Duo-Tone, graphic/sierra (Zondervan); 3. Hands-On Bible, NLT, hardcover, New Living Translation (Tyndale); 4. NIV Thinline Bible, bonded leather, burgundy (Zondervan); and 5. Start!, Greg Laurie, general editor, softcover, red, New King James Version (Thomas Nelson).