| 100% | COPPERHEAD | 10 | "Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 61% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 59% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 59% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," Louise Erdrich novel that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 59% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 58% | GMAN | 4 | Book about J. Edgar Hoover that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography |
| 57% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 55% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 55% | LIGHT | 5 | "All the ___ We Cannot See," Anthony Doerr novel that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | DEMON | 5 | "___ Copperhead," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won a 2023 Pulitzer |
| 52% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 51% | THESIEGEOF | 10 | & 10D J G Farrell novel that won the 1973 Booker Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 48% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 48% | ROADHOME | 8 | The —, Rose Tremain novel that won the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction |
| 47% | LONESOMEDOVE | 12 | Western novel that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize: 2 wds. |
| 47% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 46% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 46% | THEGOLDFINCH | 12 | Donna Tartt novel that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize (2 wds.) |
| 46% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Richard Powers novel that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize (2 wds.) |
| 46% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize (3 wds.) |
| 46% | JUNOT | 5 | Díaz who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 45% | ADAM | 4 | Novelist Johnson who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 45% | LESS | 4 | Andrew Sean Greer novel that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize |
| 45% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 45% | ROADHOME | 8 | The ---, Rose Tremain novel that won the 2008 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction |