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Name a book that has sold at least 500,000 copies worldwide.

October 24, 2026 · Daily Dive #101

Explore 11,014 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on October 24, 2026.

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11,014 recorded names on October 24, 2026, 9,736 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast the net wide across publishing: mass-market paperbacks, numbered series entries, cookbooks, diet guides, children's picture books and religious paperbacks all cross this threshold. Submit one published book title whose lifetime sales have genuinely passed half a million copies; author names, series names, screen adaptations and manuscripts still in draft do not qualify.

11,014 recorded answers9,736 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut9,73585 pts
  • Rare1,16060 pts
  • Schooler10730 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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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
  • The Bear DetectivesDeep Cut85points
  • The Bear ScoutsDeep Cut85points
  • The Bears' ChristmasDeep Cut85points
  • The Bears' PicnicDeep Cut85points
  • The Bears' VacationDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast from the EastDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast in Ms. Rooney's RoomDeep Cut85points
  • The Beast of Buckingham PalaceDeep Cut85points
  • The Beatles AnthologyDeep Cut85points
  • The Beatryce ProphecyDeep Cut85points
  • The Beautiful and DamnedDeep Cut85points
  • The Bed and Breakfast StarDeep Cut85points
  • The Bee StingDeep Cut85points
  • The Beekeeper of AleppoDeep Cut85points
  • The Beginner's GoodbyeDeep Cut85points
  • The BellmakerDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New JobDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Moving DayDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Bad DreamDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Bad HabitDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road RaceDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Blame GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Double DareDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the ForestDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Green-Eyed MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Homework HassleDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the In CrowdDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Messy RoomDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur BoneDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the New BabyDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Prize PumpkinDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the SitterDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Slumber PartyDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old TreeDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble at SchoolDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with FriendsDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with MoneyDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with PetsDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the TruthDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma'sDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Too Much BirthdayDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk FoodDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TVDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears and Too Much VacationDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Count Their BlessingsDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore)Deep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Forget Their MannersDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Get in a FightDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Get Stage FrightDeep Cut85points
  • The Berenstain Bears Get the GimmiesDeep 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.

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