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"The truth is there’s an alchemy around bestseller-dom that’s as unfathomable as the QI scoring system. Mediocre books become bestsellers. Truly terrible books become bestsellers. Books published years ago leap back into the charts thanks to Tiktok, Netflix and/or Elizabeth Gilbert. Weird experimental books win big literary prizes and become bestsellers that no one reads. And, of course, brilliantly written books, books by previously successful authors, and books that secure massive advances through fierce publisher bidding wars sink like stones. Just because we label a book commercial doesn’t mean it will be. Again, unhelpful."
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