Krillion Recorded answers
11,014 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the outside in. Fix the bar first: half a million copies is a mid-list success rather than a household name, so the pool is vastly bigger than the obvious classics. Generate candidates category by category, sweeping through mass-market fiction, numbered series volumes, cookbooks, diet and self-help manuals, picture books, religious paperbacks, celebrity memoirs, film tie-ins, translated comics and serialized fiction. For each one, ask whether it plausibly sold that many copies worldwide rather than in just one territory. Favour titles that arrive with a built-in audience: numbered runs, licensed properties, annual gift volumes, authors with a loyal following. Finish by choosing the least predictable title you can defend, since scoring rewards obscure but verifiable entries over famous ones.
Get a hint
Begin with the broadest territory: bestseller lists spanning several decades, since a title that moved half a million copies usually left a paper trail of reprints, translations and book-club editions.
A little more
Then narrow by format and audience: cheap paperbacks, subscription book-club printings, numbered series volumes and gift editions cross that threshold quietly, far from headlines.
One step further
For the last step, look at works propped up by a franchise, a celebrity name, a film tie-in or a long-running annual series, where a built-in readership can carry sales past the bar on its own.
Reveal answers 11,014
- Si-Cology 1Deep Cut85points
- Siblings Without RivalryDeep Cut85points
- Sidemen: The BookDeep Cut85points
- SidetrackedDeep Cut85points
- Siege and StormDeep Cut85points
- Silas MarnerDeep Cut85points
- SilenceDeep Cut85points
- SilencerDeep Cut85points
- Silent HonorDeep Cut85points
- Silent NightDeep Cut85points
- Silent Night (Mary Higgins Clark)Deep Cut85points
- Silent ThunderDeep Cut85points
- Silly SallyDeep Cut85points
- Silver BayDeep Cut85points
- Silver GirlDeep Cut85points
- Silver LiningsDeep Cut85points
- Silver SpoonDeep Cut85points
- Silver TearsDeep Cut85points
- Silver WeddingDeep Cut85points
- SilverFinDeep Cut85points
- SilverliciousDeep Cut85points
- SilverthornDeep Cut85points
- SilverviewDeep Cut85points
- Simon Called PeterDeep Cut85points
- Simple AbundanceDeep Cut85points
- Simple GeniusDeep Cut85points
- Simply JamieDeep Cut85points
- Simply LiesDeep Cut85points
- Simply NigellaDeep Cut85points
- Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForDeep Cut85points
- Sin City: That Yellow BastardDeep Cut85points
- Sin City: The Big Fat KillDeep Cut85points
- Sin City: The Hard GoodbyeDeep Cut85points
- Since We FellDeep Cut85points
- Sing Down the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Sing You HomeDeep Cut85points
- Sing, Unburied, SingDeep Cut85points
- Single & SingleDeep Cut85points
- Sinner (Maggie Stiefvater)Deep Cut85points
- SinnersDeep Cut85points
- Sir Gawain and the Green KnightDeep Cut85points
- Sir ThursdayDeep Cut85points
- SisterDeep Cut85points
- Sister CarrieDeep Cut85points
- Sister of the BrideDeep Cut85points
- Sisterhood EverlastingDeep Cut85points
- SistersDeep Cut85points
- SitkaDeep Cut85points
- Six Crimson CranesDeep Cut85points
- Six Hours One FridayDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The spread is lopsided: one recorded entry reached the full hundred, while 8,807 sat at eighty-five and 819 fell to sixty. That pattern tells you scoring rewards rarity rather than fame. The eighty-five band absorbed everything from 'Tis and 1-2-3 Magic to dozens of serial installments, taking in mid-list fiction, media tie-ins, novelty volumes and religious paperbacks that sold steadily without dominating headlines. Almost any verifiable title cleared the floor. The sixty-point group is where the safest, most obvious picks piled up, the titles thousands of players thought of at once, so wide recognition cost points instead of earning them. A single entry at the top proves how far an unusual but provable choice can travel. The lesson for a future round: the rule sets only a minimum, so once a book plausibly passed half a million copies, pick the strangest one you can defend.