| 100% | MIDNIGHTS | 9 | "___ Children," 1981 Booker Prize-winning Salman Rushdie novel featuring themes of magical realism |
| 62% | PIRANESI | 8 | 2020 Susanna Clarke novel featuring themes of magical realism that won the Women's Prize for Fiction |
| 48% | THESHORE | 8 | "Kafka on ___," 2002 World Fantasy Award-winning Haruki Murakami novel featuring themes of magical realism: 2 wds. |
| 45% | MIDNIGHTS | 9 | & 9A Salman Rushdie novel; 1981 Man Booker Prize winner |
| 40% | LIFE | 4 | "___ of Pi," 2001 Yann Martel novel featuring themes of magical realism that has an eponymous film adaptation |
| 38% | SHAME | 5 | 1983 Salman Rushdie novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize |
| 36% | RUSHDIE | 7 | Salman —, author of 1981 novel Midnight's Children |
| 33% | LANE | 4 | "The Ocean at the End of the ___," 2013 Neil Gaiman novel featuring themes of magical realism that was nominated for a Nebula Award |
| 32% | KEANE | 5 | Molly —, author of 1981 Booker Prize-nominated novel Good Behaviour |
| 32% | KEANE | 5 | Molly -, author of 1981 Booker Prize-nominated novel Good Behaviour |
| 31% | THEOLDDEVILS | 12 | 1986 Booker Prize winning novel by Kingsley Amis |
| 29% | LANE | 4 | "The Ocean at the End of the ___," 2013 novel by Neil Gaiman featuring an unnamed protagonist that won a British Book Award |
| 29% | SALMANRUSHDIE | 13 | Author who won the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for "Midnight's Children": 2 wds. |
| 28% | THEWHITETIGER | 13 | Booker Prize-winning début novel for Aravind Adiga |
| 27% | HULME | 5 | Keri —, author of Booker Prize-winning novel The Bone People |
| 27% | SOLITUDE | 8 | "One Hundred Years of ___," 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez magnum opus featuring themes of magical realism |
| 27% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 27% | INDIA | 5 | Setting of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" |
| 27% | YANN | 4 | ___ Martel, Canadian writer known for his Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi" |
| 27% | LIVELY | 6 | Penelope —, author of 1987 Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger |
| 26% | ADIGA | 5 | Aravind —, author of 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel The White Tiger |
| 26% | SHAME | 5 | 1983 Salman Rushdie novel |
| 26% | WRINKLEINTIME | 13 | With "A," classic science fantasy novel, and a feature of the theme answers |
| 26% | LAST | 4 | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| 26% | LASTORDERS | 10 | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| 26% | PADDY | 5 | 1993 Booker Prize-winning novel by Roddy Doyle |
| 25% | DOYLE | 5 | Roddy —, author of 1993 Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 25% | ENRIGHT | 7 | Anne —, author of 2007 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Gathering |