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

October 24, 2026 · Daily Dive #101

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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 Master of JalnaDeep Cut85points
  • The Master PuppeteerDeep Cut85points
  • The Mastery of LoveDeep Cut85points
  • The Matarese CircleDeep Cut85points
  • The Matarese CountdownDeep Cut85points
  • The MatchDeep Cut85points
  • The MatchmakerDeep Cut85points
  • The Matlock PaperDeep Cut85points
  • The Mayan SecretsDeep Cut85points
  • The Mayor of CasterbridgeDeep Cut85points
  • The Meaning of MarriageDeep Cut85points
  • The Measure of a ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Mediterranean CaperDeep Cut85points
  • The Melody Lingers OnDeep Cut85points
  • The Melted CoinsDeep Cut85points
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesDeep Cut85points
  • The Memory Keeper's DaughterDeep Cut85points
  • The Mephisto ClubDeep Cut85points
  • The Mercedes CoffinDeep Cut85points
  • The Merchant of DeathDeep Cut85points
  • The Merck ManualDeep Cut85points
  • The MermaidDeep Cut85points
  • The Mermaid ChairDeep Cut85points
  • The Message in the Hollow OakDeep Cut85points
  • The MessengerDeep Cut85points
  • The Midnight FeastDeep Cut85points
  • The Midnight GangDeep Cut85points
  • The Midnight LineDeep Cut85points
  • The Midnight PalaceDeep Cut85points
  • The Midnight StarDeep Cut85points
  • The Midwife MurdersDeep Cut85points
  • The Midwife's ApprenticeDeep Cut85points
  • The Mildenhall TreasureDeep Cut85points
  • The Mill on the FlossDeep Cut85points
  • The Millionaire MindDeep Cut85points
  • The Millionaire Next DoorDeep Cut85points
  • The Mind's EyeDeep Cut85points
  • The Minds of Billy MilliganDeep Cut85points
  • The Mine with the Iron DoorDeep Cut85points
  • The MiniaturistDeep Cut85points
  • The Ministry for the FutureDeep Cut85points
  • The Ministry of TimeDeep Cut85points
  • The Ministry of Utmost HappinessDeep Cut85points
  • The MinpinsDeep Cut85points
  • The Miracle (Irving Wallace)Deep Cut85points
  • The Miracle MorningDeep Cut85points
  • The Miracle of MindfulnessDeep Cut85points
  • The Miracle of the BellsDeep Cut85points
  • The Miracles of the Namiya General StoreDeep Cut85points
  • The Mirror & the LightDeep 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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