After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, church attendance and public proclamations of Christ have surged. Now, data reported by the Wall Street Journal reveals bible sales following his assassination increased by 36% in September. The news follows overall trends towards increased bible sales, as well as printed book sales in general.
Sales of Bibles have jumped over the past year, according to The New York Times.
Bible sales in 2025 have surged about 12 percent over last year, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The report comes after sales of Bibles in the U.S. were also up in 2024, rising 22 percent through the end of October that year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Meanwhile, total print sales hit around 707 million units during 2025 through mid-December, The New York Times reported, citing recent data from Circana BookScan. By comparison, that number is just three million less than the pandemic-era peak in 2021, and 57 million copies more than in 2019, per The New York Times.
“The [book] industry itself is in transformation, which is always very challenging,” Dominique Raccah, the publisher of Sourcebooks, told the outlet.
Moreover, sales of romance books have also continued to rise during 2025, according to The New York Times. Romance sales have increased about 5 percent this year, the outlet reported, citing data from BookScan.