100% | BUSINESS | 8 | "Fifth ___" (first novel in Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy) |
59% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy |
59% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Cather's "Great Plains" trilogy |
58% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in Cather's "prairie trilogy" |
56% | BRED | 4 | "What's ___ in the Bone" (second novel in Robertson Davies's Cornish Trilogy) |
54% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel in 29-Across's Great Plains trilogy (2 wds.) |
45% | TITUSGROAN | 10 | 1946 Mervyn Peake novel; first in the Gormenghast trilogy |
45% | ERAGON | 6 | First novel in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle |
43% | THEBLACKECHO | 12 | First novel in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series (3 wds.) |
43% | INHERITANCE | 11 | First novel in 39-Across's "The Lost Bride" romance series |
42% | OUTOFTHE | 8 | & 22A 1938 C S Lewis novel; first part of the Space Trilogy |
41% | THEAWAKENING | 12 | First novel in 39-Across's "The Dragon Heart Legacy" fantasy series (2 wds.) |
39% | THE | 3 | First word in all of 9-Down’s novels |
39% | DEADTHING | 9 | Every __; first novel in Charlie Parker series |
39% | ANGELS | 6 | __ & Demons, first novel in Robert Langdon series |
38% | REDDRAGON | 9 | The first novel in the Hannibal Lecter saga |
38% | MYANTONIA | 9 | Final novel in 29-Across's Great Plains trilogy (2 wds.) |
38% | ROBERTSON | 9 | The Deptford Trilogy author Davies |
38% | OPIONEERS | 9 | First novel of the Great Plains trilogy |
37% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 18-Across's first novel, published in 1970: 3 wds. |
36% | WARDROBE | 8 | "The Lion, the Witch and the ___," first novel in the fantasy series "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis |
36% | THUS | 4 | First word in the translated title of Nietzsche's 1885 novel "Also sprach Zarathustra" |
36% | AGNESGREY | 9 | Writing as "Acton Bell", Anne Bronte published this first novel in 1847 |
36% | CARRIE | 6 | Title girl in Stephen King's first published novel |
35% | PARTI | 5 | First entry in a trilogy, perhaps |
35% | OBOE | 4 | It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth |
35% | RABBITRUN | 9 | First in a John Updike novel series |
35% | STRATEGIC | 9 | First S in OSS, precursor of CIA |
35% | FRANKENSTEIN | 12 | Novel first published in 1818 |
35% | SOVIET | 6 | The first S in USSR |