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
- Ellen FosterDeep Cut85points
- Ellen TebbitsDeep Cut85points
- Elmer and the DragonDeep Cut85points
- Elmer GantryDeep Cut85points
- Elmo's Big Lift and Look BookDeep Cut85points
- Eloise at ChristmastimeDeep Cut85points
- Eloise in ParisDeep Cut85points
- Eloise Wilkin's Mother GooseDeep Cut85points
- Elon Musk (Isaacson)Deep Cut85points
- ElsewhereDeep Cut85points
- Elvis and MeDeep Cut85points
- Embraced by the LightDeep Cut85points
- EmeraldaliciousDeep Cut85points
- Emil and the DetectivesDeep Cut85points
- Emil of LönnebergaDeep Cut85points
- Emily's Runaway ImaginationDeep Cut85points
- EmmaDeep Cut85points
- Emma's SecretDeep Cut85points
- EmmanuelleDeep Cut85points
- Emotional IntelligenceDeep Cut85points
- Emperor MageDeep Cut85points
- Emperor Pickletine Rides the BusDeep Cut85points
- Empire FallsDeep Cut85points
- Empire of PainDeep Cut85points
- Empire of SilenceDeep Cut85points
- Empire of StormsDeep Cut85points
- Empire of the AntsDeep Cut85points
- Empire of the VampireDeep Cut85points
- EnchantedDeep Cut85points
- Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring BookDeep Cut85points
- Encore in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy DetectiveDeep Cut85points
- End GameDeep Cut85points
- End of WatchDeep Cut85points
- Ender in ExileDeep Cut85points
- Ender's ShadowDeep Cut85points
- Ending Your Day RightDeep Cut85points
- EndymionDeep Cut85points
- Enemy at the GatesDeep Cut85points
- Enemy ContactDeep Cut85points
- Enemy of the StateDeep Cut85points
- Engineering Mechanics: StaticsDeep Cut85points
- English Grammar (Lindley Murray)Deep Cut85points
- Enlightenment NowDeep Cut85points
- Entangled LifeDeep Cut85points
- EntertainingDeep Cut85points
- EntrancedDeep Cut85points
- EntreLeadershipDeep Cut85points
- Entwined with YouDeep Cut85points
- EnvyDeep 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.