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
- Cavendon HallDeep Cut85points
- Cecily Parsley's Nursery RhymesDeep Cut85points
- Celebration of DisciplineDeep Cut85points
- Celebrity in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Celestial NavigationDeep Cut85points
- CellDeep Cut85points
- Celtic EmpireDeep Cut85points
- Cemetery DanceDeep Cut85points
- CentennialDeep Cut85points
- Ceremony in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Ces dames aux chapeaux vertsDeep Cut85points
- Chain of CommandDeep Cut85points
- Chain of GoldDeep Cut85points
- Chain of IronDeep Cut85points
- Chain of ThornsDeep Cut85points
- Chain-Gang All-StarsDeep Cut85points
- ChainsDeep Cut85points
- Challenger DeepDeep Cut85points
- ChameleonDeep Cut85points
- ChampionDeep Cut85points
- Chances (Jackie Collins)Deep Cut85points
- Chancy (Louis L'Amour)Deep Cut85points
- Change of HeartDeep Cut85points
- Change Your Thoughts, Change Your LifeDeep Cut85points
- ChangesDeep Cut85points
- Changes for SamanthaDeep Cut85points
- Changing HabitsDeep Cut85points
- ChaosDeep Cut85points
- Chapman Piloting & SeamanshipDeep Cut85points
- Chapterhouse: DuneDeep Cut85points
- CharadeDeep Cut85points
- Chariots of the Gods?Deep Cut85points
- Charlie Cook's Favourite BookDeep Cut85points
- Charlie the Ranch DogDeep Cut85points
- Charlie Thorne and the Last EquationDeep Cut85points
- CharmedDeep Cut85points
- Charmed LifeDeep Cut85points
- Charming LilyDeep Cut85points
- Chasing DarknessDeep Cut85points
- Chasing FireDeep Cut85points
- Chasing RedbirdDeep Cut85points
- Chasing the DimeDeep Cut85points
- Check & MateDeep Cut85points
- Chelsea Chelsea Bang BangDeep Cut85points
- Chemistry (Zumdahl)Deep Cut85points
- Chemistry: The Central ScienceDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Brigands M.C.Deep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Class ADeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Divine MadnessDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Mad DogsDeep 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.