James W. Hall Can you write a best-selling novel simply by following a formula? Creative writing professor and novelist James W. Hall tries his hand at teasing out the magical, alchemical recipe for creating a bestseller in his new book, Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Biggest Bestsellers . Hit Lit grew from a university course Hall began teaching years ago about about popular fiction, inspired by a collection of year-by-year lists of bestsellers he found in his university's library. "For that initial class I chose ten books that were the best-selling novels of their decade," he writes. "These books were big. Bigger than a big." Hall calls them "mega-bestsellers"-- books that sell in the multiple millions and often keep selling for years. For his book, Hall analyzed Gone With the Wind , Peyton Place , To Kill a Mockingbird , Valley of the Dolls , The Godfather , The Exorcist , Jaws , The Dead Zone , The H...
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