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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 Littlest AngelDeep Cut85points
  • The Lives of Christopher ChantDeep Cut85points
  • The Lizard of OzDeep Cut85points
  • The Locked DoorDeep Cut85points
  • The Lone Star RangerDeep Cut85points
  • The Lonely LadyDeep Cut85points
  • The Lonely MenDeep Cut85points
  • The Lonely SeaDeep Cut85points
  • The Lonesome GodsDeep Cut85points
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the SoulDeep Cut85points
  • The Long GameDeep Cut85points
  • The Long PatrolDeep Cut85points
  • The Long Road HomeDeep Cut85points
  • The Long WalkDeep Cut85points
  • The Long WinterDeep Cut85points
  • The Looking Glass WarDeep Cut85points
  • The LoopDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost ApothecaryDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost BookshopDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost BoyDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost Boy (Camilla Läckberg)Deep Cut85points
  • The Lost City of the Monkey GodDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost City of ZDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost ContinentDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost Flowers of Alice HartDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost HeirDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina BlumDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost IslandDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost MetalDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost OrderDeep Cut85points
  • The Lost World (Michael Crichton)Deep Cut85points
  • The Lost YearsDeep Cut85points
  • The Lottie ProjectDeep Cut85points
  • The Love DareDeep Cut85points
  • The Love KillersDeep Cut85points
  • The Love MachineDeep Cut85points
  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du BoisDeep Cut85points
  • The LowlandDeep Cut85points
  • The Luck of Barry LyndonDeep Cut85points
  • The Luckiest GirlDeep Cut85points
  • The LuminariesDeep Cut85points
  • The Lying GameDeep Cut85points
  • The MacGregor BridesDeep Cut85points
  • The MacGregor GroomsDeep Cut85points
  • The Machine GunnersDeep Cut85points
  • The Mad ReaderDeep Cut85points
  • The Magic Faraway TreeDeep Cut85points
  • The Magic FingerDeep Cut85points
  • The Magic LocketDeep Cut85points
  • The Magic MisfitsDeep 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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