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
- As the Crow FliesDeep Cut85points
- As Time Goes ByDeep Cut85points
- As Vidas de Chico XavierDeep Cut85points
- As You Like ItDeep Cut85points
- Asakiyumemishi (The Tale of Genji manga)Deep Cut85points
- Ascendance of a BookwormDeep Cut85points
- AshesDeep Cut85points
- Ashita no JoeDeep Cut85points
- Ashley BellDeep Cut85points
- Assassin's ApprenticeDeep Cut85points
- Assassin's QuestDeep Cut85points
- Assassination ClassroomDeep Cut85points
- AssassinsDeep Cut85points
- AssegaiDeep Cut85points
- Astro BoyDeep Cut85points
- At Bertram's HotelDeep Cut85points
- At First SightDeep Cut85points
- At HomeDeep Cut85points
- At My Mother's Knee... and Other Low JointsDeep Cut85points
- At My TableDeep Cut85points
- At RiskDeep Cut85points
- At the Water's EdgeDeep Cut85points
- Atama ga Ii Hito, Warui Hito no HanashikataDeep Cut85points
- AthabascaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantis FoundDeep Cut85points
- Atlas of Human Anatomy (Netter)Deep Cut85points
- Atlas of the HeartDeep Cut85points
- AtmosphereDeep Cut85points
- AttachmentsDeep Cut85points
- Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow GoonsDeep Cut85points
- Attack of the Graveyard GhoulsDeep Cut85points
- Attack of the Jack-O'-LanternsDeep Cut85points
- Attack of the Jack!Deep Cut85points
- Attack of the MutantDeep Cut85points
- Attack on Titan: No RegretsDeep Cut85points
- Au Bonheur des DamesDeep Cut85points
- Au nom d'AllahDeep Cut85points
- Au revoir là-hautDeep Cut85points
- Auggie & MeDeep Cut85points
- August 1914Deep Cut85points
- Aunt Erma's Cope BookDeep Cut85points
- Auntie MameDeep Cut85points
- Aurora DawnDeep Cut85points
- Autobiography of a YogiDeep Cut85points
- AutopsyDeep Cut85points
- AvengerDeep Cut85points
- AwakenedDeep Cut85points
- AwakeningsDeep Cut85points
- Awesome Good Clean Jokes For KidsDeep Cut85points
- Awful AuntieDeep 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.