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'Heaven' atop ECPA list Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 06 June 2011 03:06 PM America/New_York

Todd Burpo's Heaven is for Real (Thomas Nelson) continues to top Christian retail sales tracked by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

The pastor's account of his young son's experiences heads the just-released June sales chart, based on four weeks' sales through mid-May.

The rest of the top 10 are: 2. Jesus Calling by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 3. Jesus Calling: Deluxe Edition by Sarah Young (Thomas Nelson); 4. Crazy Love by Francis Chan (David C. Cook); 5. Leaving by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan); 6. The Judgment by Beverly Lewis (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group); 7. Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer (FaithWords/Hachette Book Group); 8. Radical by David Platt (Multnomah Books); 9. One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp (Zondervan); and 10. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers).

The top 10 selling Bibles for the same period: 1. Share the Good News Outreach Bible, ESV (Crossway); 2. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 3. ESV Economy Bible (Crossway); 4. Invitation New Testament With Psalms and Proverbs (Zondervan); 5. NIV Adventure Bible, gray/blue with clip closure (Zondervan); 6. Outreach New Testament, ESV (Crossway); 7. NIV Adventure Bible, pink/green with clip closure (Zondervan); 8. Beautiful Everyday, NLT, softcover (Tyndale House Publishers); 9. NIV Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zondervan); and 10. ESV Thinline Value Bible, TruTone chestnut/filigree design (Crossway).

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. Click here http://www.christianbestsellerlists.com to see the June best-seller lists in full.