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‘Jesus Calling’ continues atop Pubtrack best-sellers Print Email
Written by Christine D. Johnson   
Monday, 06 August 2012 10:35 AM America/New_York

Ron Carpenter’s The Necessity of an Enemy appears just behind Sarah Young’s mega-selling devotional on the General best-sellers from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) this week. The list from ECPA tracks sales for the week ending July 28, according to Pubtrack Christian data.

The Top 20 General best-sellers are: 1. Jesus Calling, Sarah Young, hardcover (Thomas Nelson); 2. The Necessity of an Enemy, Ron Carpenter Jr. (WaterBrook Press); 3. Not a Fan, Kyle Idleman (Zondervan); 4. The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn (FrontLine/Charisma House Book Group); 5. Jesus Calling, Young, large print deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 6. KJV Standard Lesson Commentary, 2012-2013, softcover (Standard Publishing); 7. Jesus Calling, Young, deluxe (Thomas Nelson); 8. Heaven Is for Real, Todd Burpo (Thomas Nelson); 9. Boundaries, Henry Cloud, John Townsend (Zondervan); 10. Coming Home, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 11. KJVStandard Lesson Commentary, 2012-2013, large print softcover (Standard Publishing); 12. The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 13. NIVStandard Lesson Commentary, 2012-2013, large print softcover (Standard Publishing); 14. The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson (Zondervan); 15. Crazy Love, Francis Chan (David C Cook); 16. One Thousand Gifts, Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); 17. The Struggle, “Kentucky Brothers,” No. 3, Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 18. To Heaven and Back, Dr. Mary C. Neal (WaterBrook Press); 19. Radical, David Platt (Multnomah Books); and 20. Implosion, Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers).

The Top 10 Fiction best-sellers are: 1. The Harbinger; 2. Coming Home; 3. The Struggle; 4. A Lineage of Grace, Francine Rivers (Tyndale); 5. Loving, “Bailey Flanigan Series,” No. 4, Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Lethal Legacy, “Guardians of Justice” No. 3, Irene Hannon (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 7. The Choice, Robert Whitlow (Thomas Nelson); 8. Redeeming Love, Rivers (Multnomah Books); 9. Whispers in the Wind, “Wild West Wind,” No. 2, Lauraine Snelling (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); and 10. The Haven, “Stoney Ridge Seasons,” No. 2, Suzanne Woods Fisher (Revell/Baker Publishing Group).

The top five Bibles are: 1. The Story, NIV, deluxe, hardcover, New International Version (Zondervan); 2. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover, (Zonderkidz); 3. Wild About Horses Bible, Italian Duo-Tone, toffee, New International Version (Zonderkidz); 4. The Message Remix Pocket Edition, leatherlook, tan (NavPress); and 5. The Story: Teen Edition, NIV, softcover (Zondervan).