The Bestselling Christian Books of 2010

Here is the top selling Christian Book of 2010:

Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to "listen" to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but they were helping her grow closer to God. Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her messages. They are written from Jesus’ point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling. It is Sarah’s fervent prayer that our Savior may bless you with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure.

here is a full review from Christian Book Notes

Here are the rest of the Top 100 Bestselling Christian books of 2010 thanks to Michael Hyatt.

Top of the New York Times Bestseller List

The #1 non fiction bestseller for the 4th consecutive week -
Decision Points - President George W Bush



The #1 fiction bestseller, debuting this week at #1 -
Port Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel) - Patricia Cornwell

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction and Non Fiction

The new #1 books on the NY Times Book Review Best seller list this week:

Fiction:
The Confession - John Grisham
A man who committed a despicable crime but allowed another to be sent to death row in his place now wants to admit his guilt, but must convince the authorities he’s telling the truth.


Non Fiction:
Life - Keith Richards
The Rolling Stones guitarist’s revealing autobiography is also a portrait of the era when rock ’n’ roll came of age, with the music itself as the book’s core.

USA Today Bestsellers

Here are the Top 5 Bestselling books according to the USA Today (fiction and nonfiction combined) for the week of November 3rd 2010:


5 - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson


4 - The Last Hero - Rick Riordan


3 - Life - Keith Richards


2 - Broke - Glenn Beck


1 - The Confession - John Grisham

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction for October 23rd 2010

This week on the NYTimes Bestseller Fiction list there are 2 debuts in the top 10.

Here is the Top Ten novels for the week ending October 22nd 2010

10 - The Help - Kathyrn Stockett (81 weeks on the chart)
9 - Don't Blink - James Patterson (3 weeks)
8 - Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris (3 weeks)
7 - Our Kind of Traitor - John Le Carre (Debut)
An upwardly mobile British couple are caught up in Russian intrigue.

6 - Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (7 weeks)
5 - Safe Haven- Nicholas Sparks (5 weeks)
4 - The Reversal - Michael Connelly (2 weeks)
3 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson (21 weeks)
2 - Fall of Giants - Ken Follett (3 weeks)
1 - American Assassin - Vince Flynn (Debut)
In the wake of the Lockerbie bombing, Mitch Rapp takes on his first antiterrorist assignment.

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Non Fiction October 9th 2010

We have 6 debut books on the NY Times Bestseller List for Hardback Non Fiction.

Here are the Top 10 NonFiction Bestsellers

10 - Crimes Against Liberty - David Limbaugh (6 weeks on list)
9 - Even Silence Has an End - Ingrid Betancourt (2 weeks)
Betancourt, a Colombian presidential candidate at the time, was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas in 2002 and held for six years.

8 - S**t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern (22 weeks)
7 - Operation Dark Heart - Anthony Shaffer (debut)
An intelligence officer discusses the role of spycraft and special operations in Afghanistan.

6 - Pinhead and Patriots - Bill O'Reilly (3 weeks)
5 - The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking (4 weeks)
4 - The Roots of Obama's Rage - Dinesh D'Souza (debut)
D’Souza argues that Obama’s policies are defined by the anti-colonialist sentiments of his father.

3 - A**H*** Finish First - Tucker Mas (debut)
Stories of bad decisions, debauchery and sexual recklessness.

2 - Earth (The Book) - John Stewart & others (2 weeks)

1 - Obama's Wars - Bob Woodward (debut)
How decisions were made on the war in Afghanistan, the campaign in Pakistan and the fight against terrorism.

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction for September 24th 2010

Here are the Top 5 novels on the New York Times Fiction Bestseller List for September 24th 2010

5 - The Help - Kathryn Stockett (77 weeks on list)

4 - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson (17 weeks)

3 - Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich (Debut)
A dangerous man needs Elizabeth Tucker’s help to find an ancient power source.


2 - Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (3 weeks)

1 - Safe Haven - Nicholas Sparks (Debuts at the top) The arrival of a mysterious young woman in a small North Carolina town raises questions about her past.

NYTimes Bestseller List - NonFiction for September 9th 2010

This week on the NY Times Non Fiction Top 5 we have 2 debuts and last weeks debut at #1 holds steady.

5 - Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (93 weeks on list)

4- The Perfection Point - John Brenkus (debut)

Subtitled: Sports Science Predicts the fastest man, the Highest Jump, and the Limits of Athletic Performance

3 - A Journey - Tony Blair (debut)


2 - SH** My Dad Says - Justin Halpern (18 weeks on list)

1 - Crimes Against Liberty - David Limbaugh
(2nd week on list and 2nd week at #1)

New #1 on the NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction for September 9th 2010

This week we have 3 new books debuting in the Top 5 of the NY Times Bestselling Hardback fiction list.
Here is the Top 5 for this week.

5 - The Postcard Killer - James Patterson (3 weeks on list)

4 - Lost Empire - Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood (debut)

3 - Dark Peril - Christine Feehan (debut)


2 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson (15th week on list)

1 - Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (debut)



From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen's The Corrections consistently appears on "Best of the Decade" lists and continues to enjoy a popularity that borders on the epochal, so much so that the first question facing Franzen's feverishly awaited follow-up is whether it can find its own voice in its predecessor's shadow. In short: yes, it does, and in a big way. Readers will recognize the strains of suburban tragedy afflicting St. Paul, Minn.'s Walter and Patty Berglund, once-gleaming gentrifiers now marred in the eyes of the community by Patty's increasingly erratic war on the right-wing neighbors with whom her eerily independent and sexually precocious teenage son, Joey, is besot, and, later, "greener than Greenpeace" Walter's well-publicized dealings with the coal industry's efforts to demolish a West Virginia mountaintop. The surprise is that the Berglunds' fall is outlined almost entirely in the novel's first 30 pages, freeing Franzen to delve into Patty's affluent East Coast girlhood, her sexual assault at the hands of a well-connected senior, doomed career as a college basketball star, and the long-running love triangle between Patty, Walter, and Walter's best friend, the budding rock star Richard Katz. By 2004, these combustible elements give rise to a host of modern predicaments: Richard, after a brief peak, is now washed up, living in Jersey City, laboring as a deck builder for Tribeca yuppies, and still eyeing Patty. The ever-scheming Joey gets in over his head with psychotically dedicated high school sweetheart and as a sub-subcontractor in the re-building of postinvasion Iraq. Walter's many moral compromises, which have grown to include shady dealings with Bush-Cheney cronies (not to mention the carnal intentions of his assistant, Lalitha), are taxing him to the breaking point. Patty, meanwhile, has descended into a morass of depression and self-loathing, and is considering breast augmentation when not working on her therapist-recommended autobiography. Franzen pits his excavation of the cracks in the nuclear family's facade against a backdrop of all-American faults and fissures, but where the book stands apart is that, no longer content merely to record the breakdown, Franzen tries to account for his often stridently unlikable characters and find where they (and we) went wrong, arriving at--incredibly--genuine hope.
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NYTimes Bestseller List - Fiction for August 26th 2010

A not very surprising debut at the top of the NY Times bestselling fiction list this week.

1 - The Postcard Killers - James Patterson & Liza Marklund

NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim.
Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm--and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action, The Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.

2 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larsson
13 weeks on the list and last weeks #1 novel.

3 - The Help - Kathryn Stockett
73 weeks on the list and a former #1 best seller.

4 - The Cobra - Frederick Forsyth
Debuting this week on the list.
A former C.I.A. operative is unleashed on the cocaine industry.

5 - Star Island - Carl Hiassen
4th week on the list.
A paparazzo attempting to kidnap a drug-addled pop star grabs her stunt double by mistake.

New York Times Bestseller List July 23rd 2010

Not much change in the top 5 of the NY Times Hardcover Bestseller list. A change at the top as a former #1 moves back to the top.

Here is the Top 5 for July 23rd 2010

5 - Private - James Patterson

the former #1 moves down this week

4- The Help - Kathryn Stockett

68 weeks on the list for the former top seller, the longest time on the list among the top 15 books.

3- The Search - Nora Roberts

Last weeks #1 falls 2 notches this week

2- Fly Away Home - Jennifer Weiner

Debuting on the list week with her 8th novel is this reporter and former army physician.

1 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larssen

the former bestseller moves back to the top in its 8th week on the list.