1. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Jason Wright. (Threshold Editions, $20.) A boy learns from his disappointment with his mother's gift.
2. SCARPETTA by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $28.) The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, newly married, is splitting her time between Boston and New York, where she takes on a new assignment.
3. CROSS COUNTRY by James Patterson. (Little, Brown, $28.) Alex Cross chases the leader of a lethal teenage gang.
4. THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $26.) A young mute who can communicate with the dogs his family raises takes refuge with three of them in the Wisconsin woods after his father's death.
5. THE HOST by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $26.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most human beings, but one woman won't surrender.
6. JUST AFTER SUNSET by Stephen King. (Scribner, $28.) Short stories blending fantasy and psychological realism.
7. THE LUCKY ONE by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $25.) A Marine returning home sets out to track down the woman whose photo he found in Iraq.
8. ARCTIC DRIFT by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. (Putnam, $28.) In his 20th adventure, Dirk Pitt searches for a crucial element that will help reverse global warming.
9. A MERCY by Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $24.) In 17th-century America, a slave mother urges a Northern farmer to buy her daughter so that she can have a better life, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved."
10. THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED by Wally Lamb. (Harper, $30.) A man reconstructs five generations of family history.
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