Fiction

1. (-) Prey, Michael Crichton (HarperCollins: $26.95) Scientist threatened by escaped nanotechnology and monsters.

2. (1) Four Blind Mice, James Patterson ( Little Brown & Company; $27.95) Alex Cross helps his partner try to save the life of a Vietnam veteran framed and on death row.

3. (5) The Christmas Train, David Baldacci (Warner Books; $19.95) Journalist rediscovers lost love and the meaning of the season as he researches cross-country train travel.

4. (10) Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (Little Brown; $21.95) Murder victim looks in on family, friends and killer from heaven.

5. (9) Q is for Quarry, Sue Grafton (Putnam; $26.95) Kinsey Milhone tries to solve an 18-year-old murder.

6. (7) Quentins, Maeve Binchy (E P Dutton; $25.95) Woman recovering from soured romance documents lives.

7. (4) Visions of Sugar Plums, Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) A holiday installment of the popular Stephanie Plum series.

8. (8) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor Books; $11.95) Precious Ramotswe becomes the only lady detective in Botswana.

9. (-) Midnight Bayou, Nora Roberts (Jove Publications; $7.99) Boston lawyer is haunted by both New Orleans post-bellum mansion and current day love.

10. (-)Sigma Protocol, Robert Ludlum (St Martins Mass Market; $7.99) Attempted assassination by a childhood friend puts Ben Hartman on the trail of worldwide conspiracy for a diabolical new world order.

Nonfiction

1. (-) Dayton Comes of Age, Claudia Watson (Montgomery County Historical Society; $25) Retrospective of the city.

2. (8) Portrait of a Killer, Patricia Cornwall (Putnam Publishing Group; $27.95) "Jack the Ripper - Case Closed."

3. (1) Semi Homemade Cooking, Sandra Lee (Miramax; $19.95) "Quick, Marvelous Meals and Nothing Is Made from Scratch."

4. (10) Bush at War, Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster; $28) Review of the first 18 months of the Bush White House.

5. (-) Everyday Grace, Marianne Williamson (Riverheard Books; $19.95) " Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles"

6. (-) If I Live to be 100, Neenah Ellis (Crown; $22.95) "Lessons from the Centenarians"

7. (-) John Adams, David McCullough (Touchstone Books; $18.95) Biography of the second president of the United Stated .

8. (-) Let Freedom Ring, Sean Hannity (Regan Books; $25.95) subtitled " Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism"

9. (-) Sacred Marriage, Gary L. Thomas ( Zondervan Publishing House; $12.99) Explores marital ups and downs.

10. (-) Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina Garten (Clarkson N. Potter; $35) subtitled "Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family"

Participants: Books & Co. and Joseph-Beth Booksellers. Based on sales ending week of Dec. 1 ; (-) indicates a book was not on the list the previous week