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
- Fatherhood (Cosby)Deep Cut85points
- FatherlandDeep Cut85points
- Fault LinesDeep Cut85points
- Fear Is the KeyDeep Cut85points
- Fear No EvilDeep Cut85points
- Fear NothingDeep Cut85points
- Fear of FlyingDeep Cut85points
- Fear: Trump in the White HouseDeep Cut85points
- FearlessDeep Cut85points
- Fearless FourteenDeep Cut85points
- FeastDeep Cut85points
- Feathers in the FireDeep Cut85points
- FeedDeep Cut85points
- Feel the Fear and Do It AnywayDeep Cut85points
- Feet of ClayDeep Cut85points
- Fern the Green FairyDeep Cut85points
- FerrisDeep Cut85points
- FerventDeep Cut85points
- Festive in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Fever 1793Deep Cut85points
- Fever DreamDeep Cut85points
- Fever PitchDeep Cut85points
- FiccionesDeep Cut85points
- FifteenDeep Cut85points
- Fifteen Animals!Deep Cut85points
- Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of BritainDeep Cut85points
- Filthy RichDeep Cut85points
- Final ExitDeep Cut85points
- Final GirlsDeep Cut85points
- Final JusticeDeep Cut85points
- Final OptionDeep Cut85points
- Financial PeaceDeep Cut85points
- Finch's FortuneDeep Cut85points
- Find HerDeep Cut85points
- Find MeDeep Cut85points
- Finders KeepersDeep Cut85points
- Finding AshleyDeep Cut85points
- Finding ChikaDeep Cut85points
- Finding MeDeep Cut85points
- Finding the DreamDeep Cut85points
- Finding the Mother TreeDeep Cut85points
- Finding WinnieDeep Cut85points
- Fine ThingsDeep Cut85points
- FingDeep Cut85points
- Finger Lickin' FifteenDeep Cut85points
- Fingerprints of the GodsDeep Cut85points
- FingersmithDeep Cut85points
- Finn Family MoomintrollDeep Cut85points
- Finnegans WakeDeep Cut85points
- Fire and BonesDeep 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.