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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 WreckerDeep Cut85points
  • The Wretched of the EarthDeep Cut85points
  • The Wretched StoneDeep Cut85points
  • The Wright BrothersDeep Cut85points
  • The Wrong Side of GoodbyeDeep Cut85points
  • The Wrong SisterDeep Cut85points
  • The Year of Magical ThinkingDeep Cut85points
  • The Year of the FloodDeep Cut85points
  • The Yellow Feather MysteryDeep Cut85points
  • The Yellow House MysteryDeep Cut85points
  • The Yiddish Policemen's UnionDeep Cut85points
  • The Young ElitesDeep Cut85points
  • The Young GuardDeep Cut85points
  • The Young LionsDeep Cut85points
  • The Z Was ZappedDeep Cut85points
  • The ZahirDeep Cut85points
  • The ZoneDeep Cut85points
  • The Zone (Sears)Deep Cut85points
  • The Zoo BookDeep Cut85points
  • Thea Stilton and the Dragon's CodeDeep Cut85points
  • Theft by FindingDeep Cut85points
  • Their Eyes Were Watching GodDeep Cut85points
  • Their YesterdaysDeep Cut85points
  • ThenDeep Cut85points
  • Then Again, Maybe I Won'tDeep Cut85points
  • Then She Was GoneDeep Cut85points
  • Theodore Boone: Kid LawyerDeep Cut85points
  • There Is a Bird on Your Head!Deep Cut85points
  • There Is No Antimemetics DivisionDeep Cut85points
  • There ThereDeep Cut85points
  • There's a Boy in the Girls' BathroomDeep Cut85points
  • There's a Hair in My Dirt!Deep Cut85points
  • There's a Spiritual Solution to Every ProblemDeep Cut85points
  • There's a Wocket in My Pocket!Deep Cut85points
  • There's Something About ChristmasDeep Cut85points
  • There's Treasure EverywhereDeep Cut85points
  • Thermae RomaeDeep Cut85points
  • These Happy Golden YearsDeep Cut85points
  • These Precious DaysDeep Cut85points
  • These Violent DelightsDeep Cut85points
  • They Came to BaghdadDeep Cut85points
  • They Do It with MirrorsDeep Cut85points
  • They Poured Fire on Us from the SkyDeep Cut85points
  • Thick as ThievesDeep Cut85points
  • Thidwick the Big-Hearted MooseDeep Cut85points
  • Thief of TimeDeep Cut85points
  • Thin Thighs in 30 DaysDeep Cut85points
  • Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got MarriedDeep Cut85points
  • Things Not SeenDeep Cut85points
  • Things That MatterDeep 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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