FICTION
1. DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $27.95.) Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.
2. 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.
3. THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case.
4. SIXKILL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $26.95.) In the final Spenser novel, a woman dies in an actor's hotel room.
5. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown, $30.) The latest volume in a series that began with "The Clan of the Cave Bear," set during the Ice Age.
6. I'LL WALK ALONE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A woman haunted by the disappearance of her young son discovers that someone has stolen her identity.
7. THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Defense lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure and who is accused of killing a banker.
8. CHASING FIRE, by Nora Roberts. (Putnam, $27.95.) A smoke jumper faces a new season of firefighting in Montana after the loss of her partner.