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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 Other Boleyn GirlDeep Cut85points
  • The Other DaughterDeep Cut85points
  • The Other EmilyDeep Cut85points
  • The Other Side of MeDeep Cut85points
  • The Other Side of MidnightDeep Cut85points
  • The Other Wes MooreDeep Cut85points
  • The Other WindDeep Cut85points
  • The Other WomanDeep Cut85points
  • The Outcasts (Brotherband)Deep Cut85points
  • The Outline of HistoryDeep Cut85points
  • The Outsider (Frederick Forsyth)Deep Cut85points
  • The Outsider (Stephen King)Deep Cut85points
  • The OverlookDeep Cut85points
  • The OverstoryDeep Cut85points
  • The Owl ServiceDeep Cut85points
  • The PactDeep Cut85points
  • The Pagan StoneDeep Cut85points
  • The Pain and the Great OneDeep Cut85points
  • The Painted BirdDeep Cut85points
  • The Palace of IllusionsDeep Cut85points
  • The Pale HorseDeep Cut85points
  • The Pale KingDeep Cut85points
  • The Panda's ThumbDeep Cut85points
  • The Paper PalaceDeep Cut85points
  • The Paris ApartmentDeep Cut85points
  • The Paris OptionDeep Cut85points
  • The Paris VendettaDeep Cut85points
  • The Paris WifeDeep Cut85points
  • The Parsifal MosaicDeep Cut85points
  • The PartnerDeep Cut85points
  • The Passage (Justin Cronin)Deep Cut85points
  • The PassengerDeep Cut85points
  • The Passions of the MindDeep Cut85points
  • The Password to Larkspur LaneDeep Cut85points
  • The Path Between the SeasDeep Cut85points
  • The Path of DaggersDeep Cut85points
  • The Path to LoveDeep Cut85points
  • The Patriot ThreatDeep Cut85points
  • The Paul Street BoysDeep Cut85points
  • The PearlDeep Cut85points
  • The Pearl SisterDeep Cut85points
  • The Pearls of LutraDeep Cut85points
  • The PenderwicksDeep Cut85points
  • The PenelopiadDeep Cut85points
  • The Penultimate PerilDeep Cut85points
  • The People in the TreesDeep Cut85points
  • The People vs. Alex CrossDeep Cut85points
  • The People's AlmanacDeep Cut85points
  • The People's DoonesburyDeep Cut85points
  • The Perfect CoupleDeep 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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