As of today, February 12, 2012. Christians appear to not be very interested in God, but are certainly interested in themselves.
1. Becoming Your Spouse’s Better Half: Why Differences Make a Marriage Great by Rick Johnson
2. Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships by Chip Ingram
3. Amish Prayers by Beverly Lewis and Beverly Lewis
4. The Good Life by Charles Colson
5. Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity by Lauren F. Winner
6. Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children by Faith J. H. McDonnell and Grace Akallo
7. Kiss Me Like You Mean It: Solomon’s Crazy in Love How-To Manual by Dr. David Clarke
8. Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together by Jim Burns and Cathy Burns
9. The Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version KJV Holy Bible (ILLUSTRATED) (King James Bible – Churched Authorized Version | Authorised Bible) by God, The King James Bible, The Holy Bible and The Bible
10. Love is a Verb: Stories of What Happens When Love Comes Alive by Gary Chapman
11. The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman
12. Holy Bible (NIV) by Zondervan
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What? Against Calvinism and Christ and Him Crucified. didn’t make the list? Interesting how the Bible just barely squeezed into the Top Ten. Thanks for the post, Jeff.
Well, remember that at one point Against Calvinism was a mere 60,000 spots away from the Top 12.
Also note that the KJV shown there is a $0.99 version, which I’m sure helps its sales as it did/does with our epic tome.
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My dear brother in Christ, Jeff Peterson, alerts us to the Top 12 sellingest eBooks at the Amazon Kindle Store. The titles on this list speak volumes. I find it interesting and sickening that the Bible just barely eeked by to make the Top Ten.
Ok well partly this is because many people buy these books due to having heard the author on, say a Christian talk program. It isn’t very often that someone goes on talk programs to encourage Bible reading! Maybe more Christians should?
At least 10 of these books have appeared for free or very cheep on GospelEbooks.net.
I believe publishers will reduce the price to a free, or just a buck or two, to get people to buy them so that they will be higher ranked. This being February, they have listed a large number of relationship books for free.
I would be very surprised if the there is not an ongoing pattern between Amazon’s top Christian books and the books listed on GospelEbooks.net.
Having perused this list for a while, one sees that the nature of the books on the list does not change, only the titles themselves.
One other comment… As far as the Bible goes, keep in mind that the two Bibles in the list are two specific version/publications of it. If you could somehow rank all Bibles together, I’m sure it would rank much higher.