Best-selling novelist Joel C. Rosenberg's nonfiction take on what is happening in the Middle East, Inside the Revolution, was the biggest mover at the top of the latest best-sellers list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

Rosenberg's Tyndale House Publishers title rose to seventh in the association's just-released May list of Top 50 Books, up from No. 16 the previous month.

The top 10 are: 1. The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick (B&H Books/B&H Publishing Group); 2. The Secret by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House Publishers/Baker Publishing Group); 3. The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group USA); 4. What in the World Is Going On? by David Jeremiah (Thomas Nelson); 5. Take One by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. Fireproof Your Marriage Participant's Guide by Jennifer Dion (Outreach); 8. Fireproof by Eric Wilson (Thomas Nelson); 9. Crazy Love by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); and 10. Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson).

The top 10 Bibles for May are: 1. Text Bible-NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 2. Outreach New Testament-ESV (Crossway Books & Bibles); 3. Operation Worship Bible-NLT (Tyndale House Publishers); 4. The Chronological Study Bible-NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 5. Adventure Bible-NIV (hardcover, Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 6. The VeggieTales Bible-NIV (hardcover, Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 7. Adventure Bible-NIV clip closure, gray/blue Italian duotone (Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 8. Adventure Bible-NIV clip closure, pink/green Italian duotone (Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 9. Thinline Bible (NIV), black bonded leather (Zondervan); and 10. Thinline Bible (NIV), navy bonded leather (Zondervan).

The ECPA lists are drawn from April sales at Christian retail stores across the country through the association's 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 May best-seller lists in full, go to www.christianretailing.com or www.ecpa.org.

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