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
- Christiane F.Deep Cut85points
- Christmas in CamelotDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Is Together-TimeDeep Cut85points
- Christmas LettersDeep Cut85points
- Christmas TrollsDeep Cut85points
- Christmas with Paula DeenDeep Cut85points
- ChristyDeep Cut85points
- Chronicle of a Blood MerchantDeep Cut85points
- Chronicle of a Death ForetoldDeep Cut85points
- Cilka's JourneyDeep Cut85points
- CimarronDeep Cut85points
- CinderDeep Cut85points
- Cinders: A Chicken CinderellaDeep Cut85points
- CirceDeep Cut85points
- CircleDeep Cut85points
- Circle of DaysDeep Cut85points
- Circle of FriendsDeep Cut85points
- Circling the SunDeep Cut85points
- CircusDeep Cut85points
- Cities of the PlainDeep Cut85points
- Citizen SoldiersDeep Cut85points
- City BoyDeep Cut85points
- City HunterDeep Cut85points
- City of AshesDeep Cut85points
- City of Bones (Michael Connelly)Deep Cut85points
- City of Endless NightDeep Cut85points
- City of Fallen AngelsDeep Cut85points
- City of GirlsDeep Cut85points
- City of GlassDeep Cut85points
- City of GodDeep Cut85points
- City of Heavenly FireDeep Cut85points
- City of Lost SoulsDeep Cut85points
- City of NightDeep Cut85points
- City of the BeastsDeep Cut85points
- City SpiesDeep Cut85points
- Civil WarDeep Cut85points
- Civil War on SundayDeep Cut85points
- Civilization and Its DiscontentsDeep Cut85points
- ClaptonDeep Cut85points
- ClarielDeep Cut85points
- Classic ChristianityDeep Cut85points
- ClassifiedDeep Cut85points
- Classroom of the EliteDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and Mean JanineDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the Bad JokeDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the Genius of Elm StreetDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the Great SearchDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the Middle School MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the New GirlDeep Cut85points
- Claudia and the Phantom Phone CallsDeep 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.