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
- A Woman After God's Own HeartDeep Cut85points
- A Year Down YonderDeep Cut85points
- A Young Woman After God's Own HeartDeep Cut85points
- Aan AanDeep Cut85points
- Abandoned in DeathDeep Cut85points
- AbaratDeep Cut85points
- Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of WarDeep Cut85points
- Abe Lincoln at Last!Deep Cut85points
- Abel's IslandDeep Cut85points
- AbhorsenDeep Cut85points
- About AverageDeep Cut85points
- Absalom, Absalom!Deep Cut85points
- Absent in the SpringDeep Cut85points
- Absolute FriendsDeep Cut85points
- Absolute PowerDeep Cut85points
- Absolutely Normal ChaosDeep Cut85points
- AccidentDeep Cut85points
- Accidental HeroesDeep Cut85points
- Ace of DiamondDeep Cut85points
- Acid for the ChildrenDeep Cut85points
- Across Five AprilsDeep Cut85points
- Across the River and into the TreesDeep Cut85points
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a ManDeep Cut85points
- Act of TreasonDeep Cut85points
- Act of WarDeep Cut85points
- Act of WillDeep Cut85points
- Act One (Hart)Deep Cut85points
- Acts of FaithDeep Cut85points
- Adam BedeDeep Cut85points
- Addy Learns a LessonDeep Cut85points
- Addy's SurpriseDeep Cut85points
- AdulteryDeep Cut85points
- Advise and ConsentDeep Cut85points
- Affaire RoyaleDeep Cut85points
- After AnnaDeep Cut85points
- After DarkDeep Cut85points
- After DeathDeep Cut85points
- After I DoDeep Cut85points
- After That NightDeep Cut85points
- After the FuneralDeep Cut85points
- After the QuakeDeep Cut85points
- After the RaptureDeep Cut85points
- After We CollidedDeep Cut85points
- After We FellDeep Cut85points
- After YouDeep Cut85points
- Afternoon on the AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Against All EnemiesDeep Cut85points
- Against All OddsDeep Cut85points
- ÁgapeDeep Cut85points
- AgelessDeep 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.