11th July 2025


Data source Date range 2025 weeks 1-26


Bestselling Religion


1


ESV Church Bible -


2


Crossway, 9781433563423 The Greatest Story Ever Told


Bear Grylls John Murray, 9781399820141


3


ESV Holy Bible for Kids, Econ… 5,593 -


4


Crossway, 9781433554711 Practicing the Way


John Mark Comer Form, 9780281086672


5


NIV Holy Bible -


Hodder, 9781444701593 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


Mere Christianity CS Lewis William Collins, 9780007461219


ESV Economy Bible, Large Print Crossway, 9781433558412


NKJV: The Woman’s Study Bible Thomas Nelson, 9780718086749


Holy Bible: King James Version Collins, 9780007259762


The Qur’an OUP, 9780199535958


God Is an Englishman Bijan Omrani Forum, 9781800753068


The Familiar Stranger Tyler Staton John Murray, 9781399814102


Orthodox Study Bible Nelson Bibles, 9780718003593


Holy Bible HarperCollins, 9780007103072


Discovering Christianity Rowan Williams SPCK, 9780281090631


The Power of Du’a Aliyah Umm Raiyaan Rider & Co, 9781846048180


NIV Holy Bible Hodder, 9781473618947


Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever Bloomsbury, 9781526663146


Impossible Monsters Michael Taylor Vintage, 9781529931341


After Beautiful Patience Elias Malik Independently Published, 9798334704176


3,530 3,407 3,310 3,203 3,121 2,922 2,913 2,770 2,766 2,672 2,523 2,420 2,408 2,338 2,321 42 Charts


He is risen: religious books increase in popularity year on year


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t the halfway point of 2025, NielsenIQ BookScan’s Religion category is experi- encing something


of a Lazarus-style resurgence, with total sales ascending by three quarters of a million pounds compared with the first six months of 2024. That equates to a 6.2% rise,


meaning Religion is far outpacing the full Total Consumer Market (TCM) figure, which is marginally down (by 0.02%) for the first half of the year. Not only has Religion’s value increase come from a higher average selling price – climbing 23p from a year ago to £13.49 – but volume sales have also risen by 4.4% in the same period.


A key event in one of the world’s


major religions happened on Easter weekend with the death of Pope Francis and the subsequent elec- tion of Pope Leo XIV – but even in the 16 weeks leading up to that, the category was up 2.7%. Sales over the following two


weeks, post-Easter, accelerated a little further, up 7% on the same fortnight in 2024; since then they have sped up even more, with weeks 19 to 26 showing a 10.1% leap against the equivalent eight weeks in 2024. It is no surprise, then, to see that


four out of the five Christianity sub-categories in NielsenIQ’s data have brought in an extra £862,404 in the first half of 2025. That more than covers the extra sales in the


3,773 4,948 12,741 10,563


The Religion category is experiencing something of a Lazarus-style resurgence


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