Jesus Land hits NYT Bestseller list!
Jesus Land will appear in the January 14 edition of the New York Times as #20 on the paperback bestseller list. Unbelievable! When my publisher called to tell me the news, I swore like a sailor. Whoops, there goes that New Year's resolution - to clean up my language for the benefit of my new baby girl.
Here's the list:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Best Sellers Expanded List
PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION
16 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom (Broadway/Anchor)
17 THE WORST HARD TIME, by Timothy Egan (Mariner/ Houghton
Mifflin)
18 EARTH IN THE BALANCE, by Al Gore (Rodale)
19 THE TENDER BAR, by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
20 JESUS LAND, by Julia Scheeres (Counterpoint)
21 TEACHER MAN, by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
22 BLUE LIKE JAZZ, by Donald Miller (Nelson)
23 THE PLACES IN BETWEEN, by Rory Stewart (Harvest/Harcourt)
24 HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL, by Noam Chomsky (Owl/Holt)
25 NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang)
26 THE ESSAYS OF WARREN BUFFETT, by Warren E Buffett and
Lawrence A. Cunningham (The Cunningham Group)
27 GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, by Jared Diamond (Norton)
28 1491, by Charles C. Mann (Vintage)
29 THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)
30 HOMELAND INSECURITY, by Onion Editors (Three Rivers)
Here's the list:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Best Sellers Expanded List
PAPERBACK FICTION PAPERBACK NON-FICTION
16 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, by Mitch Albom (Broadway/Anchor)
17 THE WORST HARD TIME, by Timothy Egan (Mariner/ Houghton
Mifflin)
18 EARTH IN THE BALANCE, by Al Gore (Rodale)
19 THE TENDER BAR, by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
20 JESUS LAND, by Julia Scheeres (Counterpoint)
21 TEACHER MAN, by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
22 BLUE LIKE JAZZ, by Donald Miller (Nelson)
23 THE PLACES IN BETWEEN, by Rory Stewart (Harvest/Harcourt)
24 HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL, by Noam Chomsky (Owl/Holt)
25 NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang)
26 THE ESSAYS OF WARREN BUFFETT, by Warren E Buffett and
Lawrence A. Cunningham (The Cunningham Group)
27 GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL, by Jared Diamond (Norton)
28 1491, by Charles C. Mann (Vintage)
29 THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Max Brooks (Three Rivers)
30 HOMELAND INSECURITY, by Onion Editors (Three Rivers)
posted by Julia Scheeres at 11:19 AM
18 Comments:
Heyy JuJu,
That's amazing! But you must have had some idea..Don't they send you money occasionally?
Hey Bri, only every 6 months, and at a deep discount!
Hi. I saw your book at a Borders Bookstore in Detroit International Airport about five days before Christmas. I bought it because the bus in the background said Lafayette Christian School, and the back of the book mentioned rural Indiana - I lived in Lafayette with my family in the 80's. My brothers went to Jefferson, graduating in '88, and '89. Anyways, I hadn't heard anything about it prior to this, but I bought it, read and thourghly enjoyed your memoir. I recommended it to some friends and family. Thanks for sharing your brother with us.
Peace.
Bradley
Hello Julia,
Congratulations! Well deserved. Your book brought back so many bittersweet memories. I grew up in a small town in southern Michigan. My family did not attend the local church, so we were outsiders. We were the people that knew everyone's secrets - since they couldn't share them with each other, they shared them with us. I visited recently, and it hasn't changed much at all. I can't wait for your next book! Thanks for sharing your story with us.
All right, so now are you going to do a NYC book tour?
Hi anonymous - I'd love to, but my publisher hasn't invited me. Lastima. Julia
Julia, many congratulations. I bought your book when I first saw it more than a year ago, and immediately recommended it to my sisters.
You're doing great work, and I'm a big fan.
Congratulations. You deserve it. Your book was wonderfully written.
I finished your book last night and cried and cried when it was over. Thank you so much for sharing your and David's story with us. Your book was one of the few that I have read that will stay with me forever.
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julia,
i just finished your book, which i read in a couple of days. i was attracted to it because i, too, grew up in a conservative christian family in the midwest (only i was a buckeye, not a hoosier.) i knew all the songs and hymns (ugh, petra.) while my childhood was much more fortunate than your own, i so much enjoyed (if that's the right word) reading your story, and feel quite relieved to know you made it out of the midwest, as i did (living in seattle now.) thanks for sharing your story. i feel privileged to have had a glimpse at david's life.
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