| 100% | SON | 3 | "A ___ of the Circus" (John Irving novel) |
| 69% | ASON | 4 | John Irving's "__ of the Circus" |
| 63% | ACCORDING | 9 | John Irving novel, The World __ to Garp |
| 60% | GOD | 3 | "To a ___ Unknown," novel by American author John Steinbeck about the relationship of a man to his land |
| 57% | PORTRAIT | 8 | "A ___ of the Artist as a Young Man" (James Joyce novel) |
| 57% | WITCHES | 7 | John Updike novel, The __ of Eastwick |
| 57% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 55% | OWEN | 4 | "A Prayer for __ Meany": John Irving novel |
| 55% | GALSWORTHY | 10 | John —, author of novel series The Forsyte Saga |
| 55% | TSGARP | 6 | Novelist in a John Irving novel |
| 55% | SVEVO | 5 | Italo —, author of the novels A Life and Zeno's Conscience |
| 55% | BUCHAN | 6 | John —, author of 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps |
| 55% | BRAINE | 6 | John —, author of 1957 novel Room at the Top |
| 55% | GRISHAM | 7 | John —, author of novels The Broker and The Brethren |
| 54% | OWENMEANY | 9 | A Prayer For __, John Irving novel |
| 54% | KISS | 4 | "___ of the Spider Woman" (Oscar-winning film based on a Manuel Puig novel) |
| 54% | CARR | 4 | John Dickson —, author of 1935 mystery novel The Hollow Man |
| 54% | CREASEY | 7 | John —, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners |
| 54% | GARP | 4 | The World According to __, John Irving novel |
| 54% | PATIENT | 7 | "Beware the fury of a ___ man": John Dryden |
| 54% | HALDANE | 7 | A proposer of the primordial soup theory, John __ |
| 54% | TRASHIEST | 9 | In the poorest of taste, as a novel |
| 53% | MAP | 3 | "A ___ of the World" (Jane Hamilton novel) |
| 53% | SAGE | 4 | "Riders of the Purple ___" (Tom Mix film based on a Zane Grey novel) |
| 53% | SOPHIEHANNAH | 12 | Author of the novels A Game for All the Family and Little Face |
| 53% | JAMES | 5 | P D —, author of the novels Original Sin and A Mind to Murder |
| 53% | END | 3 | "The ___ of the Affair" (1999 film based on a Graham Greene novel) |
| 53% | CHEEVER | 7 | John —, author of novels The Wapshot Chronicle and The Wapshot Scandal |
| 53% | MORTIMER | 8 | John —, author of novels Paradise Postponed and The Sound of Trumpets |
| 53% | LAHR | 4 | John —, author of novels The Autograph Hound and Hot to Trot |