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
- Dragons Love Tacos 2: The SequelDeep Cut85points
- DragonsdawnDeep Cut85points
- DragonsingerDeep Cut85points
- DragonslayerDeep Cut85points
- DragonsongDeep Cut85points
- DragonwingsDeep Cut85points
- DramaDeep Cut85points
- Draw Me a StarDeep Cut85points
- Draw the CircleDeep Cut85points
- Dream CountryDeep Cut85points
- Dream of the Red ChamberDeep Cut85points
- Dream TownDeep Cut85points
- Dream WarriorDeep Cut85points
- DreamcatcherDeep Cut85points
- DreamlandDeep Cut85points
- Dreamland (Sarah Dessen)Deep Cut85points
- Dreams Die FirstDeep Cut85points
- Dreams of JoyDeep Cut85points
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and DenimDeep Cut85points
- DriveDeep Cut85points
- Drop Dead BeautifulDeep Cut85points
- Drop ShotDeep Cut85points
- DrownDeep Cut85points
- Drowned WednesdayDeep Cut85points
- Drowning RuthDeep Cut85points
- Drummer HoffDeep Cut85points
- Drums Along the MohawkDeep Cut85points
- Drums of AutumnDeep Cut85points
- Duane's DepressedDeep Cut85points
- Dublin 4Deep Cut85points
- Duck for PresidentDeep Cut85points
- Duck on a BikeDeep Cut85points
- Dude, Where's My Country?Deep Cut85points
- Duma KeyDeep Cut85points
- Dumb WitnessDeep Cut85points
- Dune MessiahDeep Cut85points
- Dune: House AtreidesDeep Cut85points
- Dune: House CorrinoDeep Cut85points
- Dune: House HarkonnenDeep Cut85points
- Dune: The Butlerian JihadDeep Cut85points
- DustDeep Cut85points
- Dustbin BabyDeep Cut85points
- Duty and HonorDeep Cut85points
- E.T. the Extra-TerrestrialDeep Cut85points
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial StorybookDeep Cut85points
- Eagle in the SkyDeep Cut85points
- Eagle StrikeDeep Cut85points
- Earth (The Book)Deep Cut85points
- Earth from AboveDeep Cut85points
- Earth Geeks Must Go!Deep 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.