Name a book that has sold at least 500,000 copies worldwide.

October 24, 2026 · Daily Dive #101

Explore 11,014 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on October 24, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 32,760 recorded answers

11,014 recorded names on October 24, 2026, 9,736 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast the net wide across publishing: mass-market paperbacks, numbered series entries, cookbooks, diet guides, children's picture books and religious paperbacks all cross this threshold. Submit one published book title whose lifetime sales have genuinely passed half a million copies; author names, series names, screen adaptations and manuscripts still in draft do not qualify.

11,014 recorded answers9,736 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut9,73585 pts
  • Rare1,16060 pts
  • Schooler10730 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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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
  • Ice Planet BarbariansDeep Cut85points
  • Ice StationDeep Cut85points
  • IcebergDeep Cut85points
  • IceboundDeep Cut85points
  • IcebreakerDeep Cut85points
  • IconDeep Cut85points
  • Icy SparksDeep Cut85points
  • IdenticalDeep Cut85points
  • IdentityDeep Cut85points
  • Identity (Milan Kundera)Deep Cut85points
  • Identity UnknownDeep Cut85points
  • If Animals Kissed Good NightDeep Cut85points
  • If Beale Street Could TalkDeep Cut85points
  • If Cats Disappeared from the WorldDeep Cut85points
  • If I Ran the CircusDeep Cut85points
  • If I Ran the ZooDeep Cut85points
  • If It BleedsDeep Cut85points
  • If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries – What Am I Doing in the Pits?Deep Cut85points
  • If Not for YouDeep Cut85points
  • If on a Winter's Night a TravelerDeep Cut85points
  • If Only I Had Told HerDeep Cut85points
  • If the World Were a Village of 100 PeopleDeep Cut85points
  • If There Be ThornsDeep Cut85points
  • If Tomorrow ComesDeep Cut85points
  • If Winter ComesDeep Cut85points
  • If You Give a Cat a CupcakeDeep Cut85points
  • If You Give a Dog a DonutDeep Cut85points
  • If You Give a Moose a MuffinDeep Cut85points
  • If You Give a Mouse a BrownieDeep Cut85points
  • If You Give a Pig a PartyDeep Cut85points
  • If You Take a Mouse to SchoolDeep Cut85points
  • If You Take a Mouse to the MoviesDeep Cut85points
  • If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the BoatDeep Cut85points
  • If You're Reading This, It's Too LateDeep Cut85points
  • Iggie's HouseDeep Cut85points
  • Ignite MeDeep Cut85points
  • IgnoranceDeep Cut85points
  • Ii OkaoDeep Cut85points
  • Il giorno in piùDeep Cut85points
  • IlluminaeDeep Cut85points
  • IlluminationsDeep Cut85points
  • IllusionsDeep Cut85points
  • Imagine HeavenDeep Cut85points
  • Imagine MeDeep Cut85points
  • ImajicaDeep Cut85points
  • Imitation in DeathDeep Cut85points
  • Immortal in DeathDeep Cut85points
  • ImmortalityDeep Cut85points
  • ImmuneDeep Cut85points
  • Imperialism, the Highest Stage of CapitalismDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 24 Oct, 08:30 UTC

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