Bestseller book lists reflect both the times and its people, a snapshot that’s sliced and diced by genre and format.
As we approach National Booklovers Day on Aug. 9, Sen. J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” tops the various nonfiction lists, but there’s another book that’s consistently in the number one slot year after year: The Bible.
By most estimations, upwards of 7 billion Bibles have been sold over the years, making it the most popular title of all-time. Breaking it down even more granularly, 6.4 Bibles are sold every 10 seconds.
Augustine of Hippo called the Bible “our letters from home.” Abraham Lincoln once reflected that the Bible, “is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.”
The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church and a longtime member of the Focus on the Family board, said, “The Bible is not a book of the month, but the Book of the Ages. It’s so majestically deep that scholars could swim and never touch the bottom. Yet so wonderfully shallow that a little child could come and get a drink of water without fear of drowning.”
Originally published in the Washington Times. | 
