TODAY: Aaron Santos discusses “How Many Licks?,” at 6:30 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop, Cambridge … Sue and Andrew Newman (“Summer Pugs”) and Elaine Wilson Young and Toby Olanksy Kalman (“Butch the Cape Cod Dog”) sign their work from noon to 1:30 p.m., at Books by the Sea, 846 Main St., Osterville.

MONDAY: Poets Phil Fried and Karen Chase read at 8 p.m., at Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge; tickets, $3 … Wade Rathke discusses “Citizen Wealth,” at 7 p.m., at the Harvard Square Coop.

TUESDAY: Ha Jin reads from “A Good Fall,” at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University, Kenmore Square … Contributors to “The Good Men Project” speak at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline … Jennifer Haigh leads a discussion of Michael Cunningham’s “A Home at the End of the World,” at 7 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville … Mo Lotman discusses “Harvard Square,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge.

WEDNESDAY: Ha Jin reads from “A Good Fall,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Odds Bodkin and Maria Tatar speak on “Stories and Storytelling,” at 6:30 p.m., at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Harvard Square, Cambridge … Steve Almond discusses “This Won’t Take a Minute, Honey,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store ... Joan Houlihan and Jennifer Militello read at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge.

THURSDAY: Poet Mary Oliver reads at 6 p.m., at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline ($5) … Harold Evans (“My Paper Chase”) and Jason Epstein (“Eating”) speak at 6 p.m., at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge; tickets ($5) available online at harvard.com, at Harvard Book Store, or by calling 617-661-1515 … Terry Teachout (“Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong”) speaks at 6 p.m., at the Boston Athenaeum, 10.5 Beacon St.; for tickets ($15) and reservations, call 617-720-7600 … Members of the Brookline Library Authors collaborative read from 5 to 8 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Anthony Sammarco signs “The Baker Chocolate Company,” at 5:30 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Prudential Center … Anita Diamant reads from “Day After Night,” at 7 p.m., at Andover Bookstore, 89R Main St., Andover … Joel Richard Paul discusses “Unlikely Allies,” at 1 p.m., at Borders Downtown Crossing, 10-24 School St. ... Ha Jin reads from "A Good Fall," at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books.

FRIDAY: John Cassidy discusses “How Markets Fail,” at 3 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Sherri Flick, Paul Schneider, Timothy Gager, and Molly Gaudry read at 8 p.m., at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge … Katherine Hall Page and Carolyn Hart (“The Body in the Sleigh” and “Merry, Merry Ghost”) read at 7 p.m., at Borders Back Bay, 511 Boylston St.

SATURDAY: Walter Isaacson discusses “American Sketches,” at 4 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Lauren Ulm discusses “Vegan Yum Yum,” at 1 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Greg Mortenson (“Stones into Schools”) speaks at 1:30 p.m., at the Boston Public Library, Copley Square. Children's author D.G. Stern signs "Something Fishy," at 1 p.m., at Barnes & Noble. Prudential Center.

Posted by Judith Maas, Globe correspondent

1. The Blind Side

By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.

2. Freakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Harper.

3. Alex and Me

By Irene Pepperberg. Harper.

4. My Life in France

By Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. Anchor.

5. Blink

By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.

6. Julie and Julia

By Julie Powell. Little, Brown.

7. Ascent of Money

By Niall Ferguson. Penguin.

8. The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho. HarperCollins.

9. Zagat 09/10 Boston Restaurants

By Zagat Survey. Zagat Survey.

10. Kitchen Confidential

By Anthony Bourdain. Harper.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By Stieg Larsson.cq Vintage.

2. Olive Kitteridge

By Elizabeth Strout. Random House.

3. Push

By Sapphire. Rowohlt Tb.

4. The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane. Harper Perennial.

5. Boston Noir

By Dennis Lehane. Akashic.

6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial.

7. Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown.

8. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery. Europa.

9. Precious

By Sapphire. Vintage.

10. The Piano Teacher

By Janice Y.K. Lee. Penguin.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Going Rogue

By Sarah Palin. HarperCollins.

2. What the Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.

3. Open

By Andre Agassi. Knopf.

4. True Compass

By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.

5. When the Game Was Ours

By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.

6. Superfreakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. William Morrow.

7. The Book of Basketball

By Bill Simmons. ESPN.

8. Eating Animals

By Jonathan Safran Foer. Little, Brown.

9. Have a Little Faith

By Mitch Albom. Hyperion.

10. The Audacity to Win

By David Plouffe. Viking.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. The Help

By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.

2. The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper.

3. The Lost Symbol

By Dan Brown. Doubleday.

4. Under the Dome

By Stephen King. Scribner.

5. I, Alex Cross

By James Patterson. Little, Brown.

6. Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt.

7. Too Much Happiness

By Alice Munro. Knopf.

8. Ford County

By John Grisham. Doubleday.

9. The Scarpetta Factor

By Patricia Cornwell. Putnam.

10.The Original of Laura

By Vladimir Nabokov. Knopf.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Freakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Harper.

2. My Life in France

By Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. Anchor.

3. The Blind Side

By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.

4. Three Cups of Tea

By Greg Mortenson and David Relin. Penguin.

5. The Tipping Point

By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.

6. Skinny Bitch

By Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. Running Press.

7. Our Choice

By Al Gore. Rodale.

8. A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome

By Alberto Angela. Europa.

9. Alex and Me

By Irene Pepperberg. Harper.

10. Zagat 09/10 Boston Restaurants

By Zagat Survey. Zagat Survey.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Olive Kitteridge

By Elizabeth Strout. Random House.

2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.

3. The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane. Harper Perennial.

4. Push

By Sapphire. Rowohlt Tb.

5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery. Europa.

6. Say You’re One of Them

By Uwem Akpan. Back Bay.

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial.

8. Boston Noir

By Dennis Lehane. Akashic.

9. In a Perfect World

By Laura Kasischke. Harper.

10. The Time Traveler’s Wife

By Audrey Niffenegger. Mariner.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Open

By Andre Agassi. Knopf.

2. Eating Animals

By Jonathan Safran Foer. Little, Brown.

3. What the Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.

4. When the Game Was Ours

By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.

5. True Compass

By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.

6. Superfreakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. William Morrow.

7. Too Big to Fail

By Andrew Sorkin. Viking.

8. Sarah from Alaska

By Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. Public Affairs.

9. Have a Little Faith

By Mitch Albom. Hyperion.

10. The Book of Basketball

By Bill Simmons. ESPN.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper.

2. The Help

By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.

3. The Lost Symbol

By Dan Brown. Doubleday.

4. Under the Dome

By Stephen King. Scribner.

5. Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt.

6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid

By Jeff Kinney. Amulet Books.

7. Last Night in Twisted River

By John Irving. Random House.

8. The Girl Who Played with Fire

By Stieg Larsson. Knopf.

9. The Museum of Innocence

By Orhan Pamuk. Knopf.

10. The Children’s Book

By A.S. Byatt. Knopf.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

TODAY: Joe Kahn (“Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy”) speaks at 10:30 a.m., at the Jewish Community Center, North Shore, 4 Community Road, Marblehead; for tickets ($18) and information, visit http://jccns.org/jewishbookmonth87.html ... Ian MacKenzie (“City of Strangers”) and Maureen Foley (“The Book of Illumination”) read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville.

MONDAY: John Buntin reads from “L.A. Noir,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge … Elisa New reads from “Jacob’s Cane,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Hillel, Beren Hall, 52 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge … Maryalice Huggins reads from “Aesop’s Mirror,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline.

TUESDAY: Poets Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and others read at 6 p.m., at the Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge … Kristin Cashore reads from “Fire,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge.

[no WED or THURS listings]

FRIDAY: Kathryn Kleekamp signs “Cape Cod and the Islands,” from 2 to 4 p.m., at Books by the Sea, 846 Main St., Osterville.

SATURDAY: Jeanine Penzo and Pat Harvey sign “Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions,” from 3 to 6 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley … Elizabeth Moisan (“Master of the Sweet Trade”) and J. Bean Palmer (“The Cape Cod Witch and the Legend of the Pirate”) sign their work from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Books by the Sea.

Posted by Judith Maas, Globe correspondent

1. SPLENDIFEROUS CHRISTMAS, by Jane O’Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
2. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, adapted by Chris Schoebinger from the story by Glenn Beck. Illustrated by Brandon Dorman.
3. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
4. NUBS, by Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery and Kirby Larson
5. WADDLE!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder

N.Y. Times, week ending Nov. 12

1. My Life in France

By Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. Anchor.

2. Blink

By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.

3. Three Cups of Tea

By Greg Mortenson and David Relin. Penguin.

4. The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho. HarperCollins.

5. Alex and Me

By Irene Pepperberg. Harper.

6. Freakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Harper.

7. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

By Tucker Max. Citadel.

8. The Glass Castle

By Jeannette Walls. Scribner.

9. The Blind Side

By Michael Lewis. W.W. Norton.

10. The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2010

By Old Farmer’s Almanac. OFA.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.

2. Olive Kitteridge

By Elizabeth Strout. Random House.

3. The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane. Harper Perennial.

4. Boston Noir

By Dennis Lehane. Akashic.

5. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery. Europa.

6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial.

7. In a Perfect World

By Laura Kasischke. Harper.

8. Say You’re One of Them

By Uwem Akpan. Back Bay.

9. Push

By Sapphire. Rowohlt Tb.

10. Handle With Care

By Jodi Picoult. Washington Square.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Superfreakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. William Morrow.

2. What the Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.

3. The Book of Basketball

By Bill Simmons. ESPN.

4. When the Game Was Ours

By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.

5. Lit

By Mary Carr. Harper.

6. True Compass

By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.

7. Too Big to Fail

By Andrew Sorkin. Viking.

8. You Better Not Cry

By Augusten Burroughs. St. Martin’s.

9. Strength in What Remains

By Tracy Kidder. Random.

10. National Parks

By Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Knopf.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. The Lost Symbol

By Dan Brown. Doubleday.

2. The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver. Harper.

3. The Help

By Kathryn Stockett. Putnam.

4. Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt.

5. Last Night in Twisted River

By John Irving. Random House.

6. The Gathering Storm

By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Tor Books.

7. The Museum of Innocence

By Orhan Pamuk. Knopf.

8. Ford County

By John Grisham. Doubleday.

9. Kindred In Death

By J.D. Robb. Putnam.

10. True Blue

By David Baldacci. Grand Central.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

TODAY: Laura van den Berg (“What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us”) and Rachel Sherman (“Living Room”) read at 2 p.m., at Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St., Newtonville … Anthony Sammarco signs “Forest Hills Cemetery,” at 4 p.m., at a book party at Forsyth Chapel, Forest Hills Cemetery, 95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain ($15) … Brookline Booksmith, Coolidge Corner, Brookline, presents a bagel brunch with Noah Alper (“Business Mensch”) from 10 to 11:30 a.m. … Abby Sher signs “Amen Amen Amen,” from 2 to 4 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith, 82 Central St., Wellesley.

MONDAY: Poets Ron Slate and Leslie Harrison read at 8 p.m., at the Blacksmith House, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge; tickets ($3) … Cory Doctorow discusses “Makers,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge … Kevin Walsh reads from “The Marrow in Me,” at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith … Steve Buckley discusses “A Wicked Good Year,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Barbara Lynch discusses “Stir,” at 7 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University, Kenmore Square … Maggie Anton (“Rashi’s Daughters”) speaks at 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Shirat Hayam, 55 Atlantic Ave., Swampscott; for tickets ($15) and more information on JCC of the North Shore Jewish Book Month, visit http://jccns.org/jewishbookmonth87.html ... Anita Diamant discusses “Day After Night,” at 7 p.m., at Rockport Public Library, 17 School St., Rockport.

TUESDAY: Maxim D. Shrayer reads from “Yom Kippur in Amsterdam,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Bookstore … Anita Silvey discusses “Everything I Know I Learned from a Children’s Book,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge … Tom Gjelten discusses “Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba,” at 5:30 p.m., at the JFK Library, Columbia Point; for more information and to register, go to www.jfklibrary.org or call 617-514-1643 … Dave Zeltserman reads from “Pariah,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Barbara Lynch discusses “Stir,” at 7 p.m., at Morse Institute Library, 14 East Central St., Natick; RSVP 781-431-1160 or events@wellesleybooksmith.com.

WEDNESDAY: David Plouffe discusses “The Audacity to Win,” at 7 p.m., at First Parish Church, 3 Church St., Cambridge; tickets ($5) available online at harvard.com, at Harvard Book Store, or by calling 617-661-1515 … Michael Greenberg reads from “Beg, Borrow, Steal,” at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Anthony Horowitz discusses “Crocodile Tears,” at 7 p.m., at Hingham Middle School, 1103 Main St., Hingham … Ronald Probstein reads from “Honest Sid,” at 6 p.m., at Barnes & Noble, Boston University … Steve Buckley discusses “Wicked Good Year,” at 7 p.m., at Wellesley Booksmith … Marianne Taylor reads from “The Book of Cool,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Jackie MacMullan discusses “When the Game Was Ours,” at 1 p.m., at Borders Downtown Crossing, 10-24 School St.

THURSDAY: Gordon S. Wood discusses “Empire of Liberty,” at 7 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Katharine Beals discusses “Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World,” at 7:30 p.m., at Back Pages Books, 289 Moody Street, Waltham … Karl Jacoby discusses “Shadows at Dawn: A Borderland Massacre and the Violence of History,” at 7:30 p.m., at Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main St., Concord …Mystery authors Katherine Hall Page, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Hallie Ephron read at 7 p.m., at Porter Square Books … Translator Danuta Borchardt discusses Witold Gombrowicz’s “Pornografia,” at 7 p.m., at the Bookstore of Gloucester, 61 Main St., Gloucester … James Schwartz discusses “In Pursuit of the Gene,” at 7 p.m., at Brookline Booksmith … Kyoko Mori discusses “Yarn,” at 7 p.m., at Newtonville Books.

FRIDAY: James Schwartz discusses “In Pursuit of the Gene,” at 3 p.m., at Harvard Book Store … Jeff Vendermeer reads from “Finch,” at 7 p.m., at Borders Back Bay, 511 Boylston St.

SATURDAY: Poets Nancy K. Pearson and Anne Sanow read at 8 p.m., at the Fine Arts Work Center, 24 Pearl St., Provincetown … Ed B. Ridolfi discusses ‘Sweet Justice,” at 3 p.m., at the Book Rack, 52 State St., Newburyport … Tracy Kiely reads from “Murder at Longbourn,” at 1:30 p.m., at Centerville Library, 585 Main St., Centerville … Lynn Elena Holoway discusses “Celebrating Pets,” at 7 p.m., at Rockport Public Library … James Landis reads from “The Last Day,” at 2 p.m., at Borders, 90 Pleasant Valley St., Methuen … Mystery author Stacy Juba (“Twenty-Five Years Ago Today”) speaks at 1 p.m., at Kaleidoscope Books, 1 Milford St., Upton.

1. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, adapted by Chris Schoebinger from the story by Glenn Beck
2. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft
3. JULIE ANDREWS’S COLLECTION OF POEMS, SONGS, AND LULLABIES
4. WADDLE!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder
5. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, by Barb Bersche and Michelle Quint

Source: NY Times, week of Nov. 8

1. Freakonomics

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Harper.

2. A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome

By Alberto Angela. Europa.

3. Three Cups of Tea

By Greg Mortenson and David Relin. Penguin.

4. Boston Noir

By Dennis Lehane. Akashic.

5. My Life in France

By Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. Anchor.

6. Blink

By Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay.

7. Zagat 09/10 Boston Restaurants

By Zagat Survey. Zagat Survey.

8. My Horizontal Life

By Chelsea Handler. Bloomsbury.

9. The Ascent of Money

By Niall Ferguson. Penguin.

10. Colored People

By Henry Louis Gates. Vintage.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Olive Kitteridge

By Elizabeth Strout. Random House.

2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

By Stieg Larsson. Vintage.

3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery. Europa.

4. The Given Day

By Dennis Lehane. Harper Perennial.

5. In a Perfect World

By Laura Kasischke. Harper.

6. Bed of Roses

By Nora Roberts. Berkley Trade.

7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Dial.

8. Twilight

By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown.

9. Handle With Care

By Jodi Picoult. Washington Square.

10. New Moon

By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores

1. Superfreakonomics

By Steven Levitt. William Morrow.

2. The Book of Basketball

By Bill Simmons. ESPN.

3. What the Dog Saw

By Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown.

4. When the Game Was Ours

By Larry Bird and Earvin Johnson. Houghton Mifflin.

5. True Compass

By Edward M. Kennedy. Twelve.

6. You Better Not Cry

By Augusten Burroughs. St. Martin’s.

7. Louisa May Alcott

By Harriet Reisen. Henry Holt.

8. Have a Little Faith

By Mitch Albom. Hyperion.

9. Too Big to Fail

By Andrew Sorkin. Viking.

10. You Can’t Predict A Hero

By Joseph Grano. Jossey-Bass.

Source: Boston Area Bookstores