Krillion 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
- Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)Deep Cut85points
- Born to Run (Michael Morpurgo)Deep Cut85points
- BorutoDeep Cut85points
- BotchanDeep Cut85points
- Boule et BillDeep Cut85points
- BoundariesDeep Cut85points
- Bowling AloneDeep Cut85points
- Boy Meets GirlDeep Cut85points
- Boy Swallows UniverseDeep Cut85points
- Boy-Crazy StaceyDeep Cut85points
- Boy: Tales of ChildhoodDeep Cut85points
- Boys Over FlowersDeep Cut85points
- Brain JuiceDeep Cut85points
- Bramblestar's StormDeep Cut85points
- Brave Men (Pyle)Deep Cut85points
- Braving the WildernessDeep Cut85points
- Bravo Two ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Brazen VirtueDeep Cut85points
- Break No BonesDeep Cut85points
- Break Out!Deep Cut85points
- Breakheart PassDeep Cut85points
- Breaking FreeDeep Cut85points
- Breaking NewsDeep Cut85points
- Breasts and EggsDeep Cut85points
- Breath of ScandalDeep Cut85points
- Breath, Eyes, MemoryDeep Cut85points
- Breathing LessonsDeep Cut85points
- BreathlessDeep Cut85points
- Brian's HuntDeep Cut85points
- Brian's ReturnDeep Cut85points
- Brian's WinterDeep Cut85points
- Brick LaneDeep Cut85points
- BridaDeep Cut85points
- BrideDeep Cut85points
- Bride of The Far SideDeep Cut85points
- Bride of the Living DummyDeep Cut85points
- Brideshead RevisitedDeep Cut85points
- Bridge of ClayDeep Cut85points
- Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonDeep Cut85points
- Brief Answers to the Big QuestionsDeep Cut85points
- Brief LivesDeep Cut85points
- BrimstoneDeep Cut85points
- Bring Me BackDeep Cut85points
- Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy!Deep Cut85points
- Bring Up the BodiesDeep Cut85points
- Bringing Up BébéDeep Cut85points
- BrisingrDeep Cut85points
- Britt-Marie Was HereDeep Cut85points
- Broca's BrainDeep Cut85points
- BrokeDeep 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.