Young Colton Burpo's account of heaven continues to draw readers, now topping the New York Times Paperback Nonfiction list for 53 weeks, non-consecutively. With 172 weeks in total on the New York Times' Paperback Fiction list, William P. Young's 2008 book, The Shack (Windblown Media/Hachette Book Group), achieved 52 weeks at No. 1.
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Written by Colton's father, Todd Burpo, with Lynn Vincent, Heaven Is for Real has been on the list for 62 weeks total and is the No. 1 on the current Feb. 5 list, tracking sales ending Jan. 21. Sales for the trade book, released in November 2010, have surpassed 6 million copies, publisher Thomas Nelson said, while The Shack has 10 million copies in print.
Heaven Is for Real also placed at No. 3 on USA Today's "100 Best-selling Books of 2011," where The Shack ranked at No. 68. Click here to see the full list.
SOURCE: Christian Retailing
