Novel Study illustrations
Welcome! I hope you are enjoying Bestsellers: Excavating the Tools and Techniques of Successful Novels. All of the illustrations from Book 2 are collected here, for easy browsing and magnifying, alongside complete alt text.
Figure 1: Highest weekly sales for five 2025 bestsellers
Caption: Great Big Beautiful Life is such an outlier, I needed to magnify the rest of the examples to make them visible.
Alt text: A bar chart of the highest single-week sales for five 2025 bestsellers. One tall red bar for Great Big Beautiful Life, labeled 137,474, towers over four tiny bars beside it; an inset magnifies those four at 4× scale: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil at 18,479, The God of the Woods at 13,519, What We Can Know at 9,686, and Wild Dark Shore at 5,539. Even among bestsellers, Great Big Beautiful Life is an outlier, selling roughly twenty-five times more in its best week than Wild Dark Shore.
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