A novel that was the talk of this month's International Christian Retail Show has once again landed at No. 1 on the Top 50 best-sellers list from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).

William P. Young's The Shack (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group USA) led the August list, while the others in the top 10 were: 2. A Sister's Hope by Wanda E. Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing); 3. 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper, with Cecil Murphey (Revell/Baker Publishing Group); 4. The List by Robert Whitlow (Thomas Nelson); 5. 3:16: The Numbers of Hope by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson); 6. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield Publishing/Moody Publishers); 7. Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs (Thomas Nelson); 8. Mistaken Identity by Don & Susie Van Ryn and Newell, Colleen & Whitney Cerak with Mark Tabb (Howard Books); 9. Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge (Thomas Nelson); and 10. Walking With God by John Eldredge (Thomas Nelson).

On ECPA's Top 20 Bibles list, CBA's campaign to reach American troops with God's Word continues to excel. The special-edition Operation Worship Bible in the New Living Translation (Tyndale House Publishers) was the No. 1 best-selling Bible for the month.

Other top-selling Bibles were: 2. Text Bible, NKJV (Thomas Nelson); 3. Outreach New Testament, ESV (Crossway Books & Bibles); 4. Finding God: New Testament, NIV (Zondervan); 5. Thinline Reference Bible, NIV, burgundy bonded (Zondervan); 6. The Adventure Bible, hardcover (Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 7. Witness Edition, NIV (Zondervan); 8. The Adventure Bible, softcover (Zonderkidz/Zondervan); 9. The Word of Promise New Testament Audio Bible (Thomas Nelson); and 10. King James Gift and Award Bible, black leatherflex (Thomas Nelson).

The ECPA lists are drawn from 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 August best-seller lists in full, go to www.ecpa.org.

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