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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 Witch ElmDeep Cut85points
  • The Witch of PortobelloDeep Cut85points
  • The Witch Tree SymbolDeep Cut85points
  • The Witches of EastwickDeep Cut85points
  • The Witching HourDeep Cut85points
  • The Witchmaster's KeyDeep Cut85points
  • The Witness (Nora Roberts)Deep Cut85points
  • The Witness (Sandra Brown)Deep Cut85points
  • The Wolf and the Seven Young GoatsDeep Cut85points
  • The Wolf GiftDeep Cut85points
  • The Wolves of MidwinterDeep Cut85points
  • The Woman in the DunesDeep Cut85points
  • The Woman in WhiteDeep Cut85points
  • The Woman of KnockaloeDeep Cut85points
  • The Woman WarriorDeep Cut85points
  • The Woman Who Rides Like a ManDeep Cut85points
  • The Womanly Art of BreastfeedingDeep Cut85points
  • The Women in His LifeDeep Cut85points
  • The Women's RoomDeep Cut85points
  • The Wonderful Adventures of NilsDeep Cut85points
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry SugarDeep Cut85points
  • The Wonky DonkeyDeep Cut85points
  • The WoodlandersDeep Cut85points
  • The WoodsDeep Cut85points
  • The Woodshed MysteryDeep Cut85points
  • The WordDeep Cut85points
  • The Word for World Is ForestDeep Cut85points
  • The Word Is MurderDeep Cut85points
  • The World According to ClarksonDeep Cut85points
  • The World According to GarpDeep Cut85points
  • The World AlmanacDeep Cut85points
  • The World as Will and RepresentationDeep Cut85points
  • The World Atlas of WineDeep Cut85points
  • The World Is FlatDeep Cut85points
  • The World Is Full of Divorced WomenDeep Cut85points
  • The World Is Full of Married MenDeep Cut85points
  • The World Is My HomeDeep Cut85points
  • The World of Ice & FireDeep Cut85points
  • The World Until YesterdayDeep Cut85points
  • The World's Worst ChildrenDeep Cut85points
  • The World's Worst Children 2Deep Cut85points
  • The World's Worst Children 3Deep Cut85points
  • The World's Worst ParentsDeep Cut85points
  • The World's Worst TeachersDeep Cut85points
  • The Worldly PhilosophersDeep Cut85points
  • The Worry WebsiteDeep Cut85points
  • The Worst WitchDeep Cut85points
  • The Wrath of MulgarathDeep Cut85points
  • The Wreck of the ZanzibarDeep Cut85points
  • The Wreck of the ZephyrDeep 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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