by Rick Warren has hit its 100th week on The New York Times' best-seller list for Hardcover Advice books. Also this week, Warren was named one of TIME magazine's 15 "People Who Mattered 2004."

Warren's book has sold 20.5 million copies in America alone in a little more than two years, and, according to TIME, "Warren led by example, giving away 90% of his royalties, campaigning against hunger and expanding a drug-recovery program for prison inmates."

According to publisher Zondervan, the Spanish version, Una Vida Con Propósito (Editorial Vida), is also the best-selling Spanish-language book in America, with more than 1 million books sold. The Purpose-Driven Life already is translated into 28 other languages, with 56 languages licensed, and has generated more than 4.75 million units sold of gift products, including The Purpose-Driven Life Journal.

Since its publication, The Purpose-Driven Life has been a mainstay on numerous best-seller lists including USA Today, Publishers Weekly and The New York Times. It has been named Book of the Year twice, in both 2003 and 2004, by the CBA. New Man magazine readers voted it "Book of the Decade."

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