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
- All-Star SupermanDeep Cut85points
- Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop SmokingDeep Cut85points
- Allies of the NightDeep Cut85points
- Alligator BabyDeep Cut85points
- Alligators All AroundDeep Cut85points
- AlmondDeep Cut85points
- Almost Transparent BlueDeep Cut85points
- AloneDeep Cut85points
- Alone on a Wide Wide SeaDeep Cut85points
- Along for the RideDeep Cut85points
- Alpha Questions of LifeDeep Cut85points
- Altar of EdenDeep Cut85points
- Always and Forever, Lara JeanDeep Cut85points
- Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting MoronsDeep Cut85points
- Amari and the Night BrothersDeep Cut85points
- Amazing GraceDeep Cut85points
- AmazoniaDeep Cut85points
- Amber the Orange FairyDeep Cut85points
- AmbushDeep Cut85points
- Amelia Bedelia and the BabyDeep Cut85points
- Amelia Bedelia Goes CampingDeep Cut85points
- Amelia Bedelia Helps OutDeep Cut85points
- America (The Book)Deep Cut85points
- America AgainDeep Cut85points
- America by HeartDeep Cut85points
- American AssassinDeep Cut85points
- American Born ChineseDeep Cut85points
- American CaesarDeep Cut85points
- American GrownDeep Cut85points
- American MarxismDeep Cut85points
- American PastoralDeep Cut85points
- American Spelling BookDeep Cut85points
- American StarDeep Cut85points
- AmeritopiaDeep Cut85points
- Among the HiddenDeep Cut85points
- AmsterdamDeep Cut85points
- Amy and IsabelleDeep Cut85points
- An Abundance of KatherinesDeep Cut85points
- An Acceptable TimeDeep Cut85points
- An American MarriageDeep Cut85points
- An American TragedyDeep Cut85points
- An Anthropologist on MarsDeep Cut85points
- An Artist of the Floating WorldDeep Cut85points
- An Eagle in the SnowDeep Cut85points
- An Encouragement of LearningDeep Cut85points
- An Expensive Place to DieDeep Cut85points
- An Extraordinary EggDeep Cut85points
- An Immense WorldDeep Cut85points
- An Inconvenient BookDeep Cut85points
- An Indecent ObsessionDeep 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.