The wonderful Times Online notes Ten Cursed Second Novels. Joseph's Heller's next book after Catch-22, for example, was Something Happened. What happened was that it failed to do very well. Charlotte Bronte's next novel after Jane Eyre was... Shirley.
That's not to say the sophomore slump always occurs. The Times Online also recalls Ten Spectacular Second Novels. Pride and Prejudice was Jane Austen's second novel. Oliver Twist was Charles Dickens's second.
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