National bestsellers for week ended Dec. 10

1. 11/22/63, by Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, but first he must determine if Oswald is guilty.

2. RED MIST, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $27.95.) Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, director of a new forensic center in Cambridge, Mass., investigates a string of killings she believes are linked to the murder of her former deputy; the 19th Scarpetta book.

3. THE LITIGATORS, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.

4. DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY, by P.D. James. (Knopf, $25.95.) Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James re-creates the world of "Pride and Prejudice" with a mysterious twist.

5. KILL ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown & Co., $28.99.) Alex Cross investigates when the president's children are kidnapped, but the FBI and CIA stand in his way.

6. EXPLOSIVE EIGHTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam, $28.) After a disastrous vacation in Hawaii, Stephanie Plum becomes the target of an international killer.

7. THE DROP, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown & Co., $27.99.) Harry Bosch of the LAPD uncovers both the operations of a sadistic killer and a political conspiracy.

8. THE BEST OF ME, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Twenty-five years after their high school romance ended, a man and woman who have gone their separate ways return to their North Carolina town for the funeral of a friend.

9. V IS FOR VENGEANCE, by Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $27.95.) Pursuing a shoplifter, Kinsey Millhone discovers that retail crime is run by organized gangs.

10. MICRO, by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) Seven graduate students from Cambridge travel to Hawaii, where they are miniaturized by an evil entrepreneur; they escape to the rain forest, where, only 6 inches tall, they do battle with insects. Crichton completed part of this novel before his death in 2008.

1. STEVE JOBS, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $35.) A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.

2. KILLING LINCOLN, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.) The commentator looks at the events surrounding one of the most consequential episodes of U.S. history: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

3. UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.

4. BEING GEORGE WASHINGTON, by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) How Washington turned himself into the indispensable (if imperfect) man.

5. JACK KENNEDY, by Chris Matthews. (Simon & Schuster, $27.50.) An admiring portrait.

6. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

7. CATHERINE THE GREAT, by Robert K. Massie. (Random House, $35.) The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became empress of all the Russias.

8. THROUGH MY EYES, by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. (HarperCollins, $26.99.) The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.

9(x). HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson, $21.99.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

10. THEN AGAIN, by Diane Keaton. (Random House, $26.) The actress uses her mother's diaries as a springboard for the examination of her own life.

1. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2012, edited by Craig Glenday. (Guinness, $28.95.) Tallest, fastest, youngest, most.

2. GO THE (EXPLETIVE) TO SLEEP, by Adam Mansbach. Illustrated by Ricardo Cortes. (Akashic Books, $14.95.) A children's book parody for tired parents.

3. COOK'S ILLUSTRATED COOKBOOK, by the editors at Cook's Illustrated magazine. (Cook's Illustrated, $40.) Two thousand recipes from the magazine.

4. PAULA DEEN'S SOUTHERN COOKING BIBLE, by Paula Deen with Melissa Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $29.99.) Classic Southern dishes for every occasion.

5. NEARING HOME, by Billy Graham. (Thomas Nelson, $19.99.) The evangelist explores the challenges of aging.

Rankings reflect sales for the week that ended Dec. 10 at thousands of venues nationwide. An (x) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.