Krillion Answers

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.

Dated record7 questions · 32,760 recorded answers

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
03

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 House of the Seven GablesDeep Cut85points
  • The House of the SpiritsDeep Cut85points
  • The House of ThunderDeep Cut85points
  • The House on Hope StreetDeep Cut85points
  • The House on the CliffDeep Cut85points
  • The House on the StrandDeep Cut85points
  • The Housekeeper and the ProfessorDeep Cut85points
  • The Housemaid Is WatchingDeep Cut85points
  • The Housemaid's SecretDeep Cut85points
  • The Human ComedyDeep Cut85points
  • The Human ConditionDeep Cut85points
  • The Human StainDeep Cut85points
  • The HumansDeep Cut85points
  • The Hunchback of Notre-DameDeep Cut85points
  • The Hundred DressesDeep Cut85points
  • The Hundred Secret SensesDeep Cut85points
  • The Hundred Years' War on PalestineDeep Cut85points
  • The HunterDeep Cut85points
  • The Hunting PartyDeep Cut85points
  • The HusbandDeep Cut85points
  • The Husband's SecretDeep Cut85points
  • The HypnotistDeep Cut85points
  • The Hypnotist's Love StoryDeep Cut85points
  • The I Hate to Cook BookDeep Cut85points
  • The Icarus AgendaDeep Cut85points
  • The Ice ChildDeep Cut85points
  • The Ice LimitDeep Cut85points
  • The Ice MonsterDeep Cut85points
  • The Ice PrincessDeep Cut85points
  • The Icebound LandDeep Cut85points
  • The IdenticalsDeep Cut85points
  • The Illustrated ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Illustrated MumDeep Cut85points
  • The Imitation of ChristDeep Cut85points
  • The Importance of LivingDeep Cut85points
  • The Important BookDeep Cut85points
  • The Impossible Knife of MemoryDeep Cut85points
  • The Incredible Book Eating BoyDeep Cut85points
  • The Indispensable Calvin and HobbesDeep Cut85points
  • The IndwellingDeep Cut85points
  • The Infinite GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Infinite PlanDeep Cut85points
  • The Infinity GauntletDeep Cut85points
  • The Inheritance GamesDeep Cut85points
  • The Inheritance of LossDeep Cut85points
  • The InheritorsDeep Cut85points
  • The InmateDeep Cut85points
  • The InnDeep Cut85points
  • The Inn at Rose HarborDeep Cut85points
  • The Inner Game of TennisDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 24 Oct, 08:30 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy

Find an answer for this questionCheck an answerAll seven questions for this dive