Classic devotional moves up ECPA list Print
Sunday, 01 June 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

A classic devotional has risen high in the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's (ECPA) best-sellers list as graduation season hits full swing.

A special edition of Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest (Barbour Publishing), with updated language and Scripture indexes, is at No. 10 in the ECPA Top 50 Books for June, based on sales through the month ending May 28.

Rising from its 39th spot last month, the book was one of two to enter the top 10, joining Kevin Leman's Have a New Kid by Friday (Revell/Baker Publishing Group), which moved up 21 spots to No. 7.

The rest of the new top 10 is: 1. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media); 2. The Forbidden by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House Publishers); 3. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper, with Cecil Murphey (Revell/Baker Publishing Group); 4. Mistaken Identity by Don and Susie Van Ryn, Colleen Newell and Whitney Cerak, with Mark Tabb (Howard Books); 5. Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge (Thomas Nelson Publishers); 6. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing); 8. Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers); 9. Walking With God by John Eldredge (Thomas Nelson Publishers).

Graduation season also impacted the Top 10 Bibles list for June: 1. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson Publishers); 2. Thinline Bible, NIV burgundy bonded leather (Zondervan); 3. Compact thinline Bible, NIV graduation edition; 4. The Adventure Bible (Zonderkidz); 5. Gift and Award Bible, NKJV black leatherflex; 6. Thinline Bible, NIV navy bonded leather (Zondervan); 7. Woman's Study Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson Publishers); 8. Compact thinline Bible, NIV graduation edition (Zondervan); 9. Thinline Bible, NIV black bonded leather (Zondervan); 10. The Adventure Bible for Young Readers, NirV (Zonderkidz).

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.

To see the ECPA's April best-seller lists in full go to www.ecpa.org.