NY Times bestseller fiction-nonfiction 2012

Lists of The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers, Top 5

COMBINED PRINT & E-BOOK NONFICTION

    NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
    WAGING HEAVY PEACE, by Neil Young
    MUGGED, by Ann Coulter
    INTO THE FIRE, by Dakota Meyer and Bing West
    THE PRICE OF POLITICS, by Bob Woodward


HARDCOVER FICTION

    THE CASUAL VACANCY, by J. K. Rowling
    WINTER OF THE WORLD, by Ken Follett
    GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn
    A WANTED MAN, by Lee Child
    THE TIME KEEPER, by Mitch Albom


HARDCOVER NONFICTION

    NO EASY DAY, by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
    WAGING HEAVY PEACE, by Neil Young
    JOSEPH ANTON, by Salman Rushdie
    THE PRICE OF POLITICS, by Bob Woodward
    HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED, by Paul Tough


PAPERBACK TRADE FICTION

    FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, by E. L. James
    FIFTY SHADES DARKER, by E. L. James
    FIFTY SHADES FREED, by E. L. James
    BARED TO YOU, by Sylvia Day
    CLOUD ATLAS, by David Mitchell

J.K. Rowling's Casual Vacancy bumps Fifty Shades from top of bestseller list

The Casual Vacancy is a novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 27 September 2012 by Little, Brown and Company.

As J.K.Rowling's new novel hits the bookstores, its pre-order sales have already reached the 2.5million mark.

J.K. Rowling likes to describe her new book as a comic tragedy, yet there are few laughs to pierce the blanket of gloom in this bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England.

In "The Casual Vacancy," the fictional town of Pagford's daily life is shaken at the start of the book with the death of Barry Fairbrother, a local council member, coach of the local girls' rowing team and a supporter of local and civic responsibility on behalf of the residents of The Fields, the local housing project where Fairbrother grew up.

His death provides his enemies on the council, headed by local deli owner Howard Mollison, an opportunity to elect a friendly replacement whose arrival would break the council's voting deadlock, and allow them to push The Fields out of Pagford through careful redistricting. This, along with closing the local methadone clinic, would in their eyes help restore Pagford to an idyllic, middle-class, poverty-free existence.