| 100% | BARDO | 5 | "Lincoln in the ___" (2017 George Saunders best-selling novel) |
| 72% | BARDO | 5 | "Lincoln in the ___" (2017 best-selling novel) |
| 49% | NATIVESON | 9 | Best-selling 1940 novel that was adapted into a film, with its author playing the protagonist, in 1951 |
| 49% | GEORGE | 6 | Saunders who wrote Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 48% | ELOI | 4 | People in the H. G. Wells novel "The Time Machine" |
| 47% | BELFAST | 7 | The George Best airport is found in this city |
| 47% | ROSE | 4 | "The Name of the ___," best-selling novel by Umberto Eco that was originally written in Italian |
| 47% | SAUNDERS | 8 | "Lincoln in the Bardo" author George |
| 47% | MARTIAN | 7 | The —, novel by George du Maurier published posthumously in 1897 |
| 46% | DRAGON | 6 | "The Girl with the ___ Tattoo," best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson that was originally written in Swedish |
| 46% | QUOVADIS | 8 | Best-selling novel set in ancient Rome |
| 45% | LIFEOFPI | 8 | Best-selling novel that begins in Pondicherry, India |
| 45% | KNIGHTLEY | 9 | George —, gentleman who marries the title character in 1815 Jane Austen novel Emma |
| 44% | JOHNGRISHAM | 11 | Best-selling author of more than 30 novels, including 2017's "The Rooster Bar": 2 wds. |
| 44% | MOON | 4 | "The First Men in the ___," 1901 science romance novel by H.G. Wells |
| 44% | ELOI | 4 | Morlocks' counterparts in the H.G. Wells novel "The Time Machine" |
| 44% | COMA | 4 | 1977 best-selling novel set in a hospital |
| 43% | OREOS | 5 | The best-selling cookies in America |
| 43% | OREO | 4 | The best-selling cookie in America |
| 43% | MOONLIGHT | 9 | Film for which 32-Across won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2017 |
| 43% | PETULENGRO | 10 | Jasper —, character in novels by George Borrow including The Romany Rye and Lavengro |
| 43% | ELOI | 4 | Race of decadent people in 1895 H G Wells novel The Time Machine |
| 43% | BIRDS | 5 | "The Thorn ___," novel by Colleen McCullough that's the best-selling book in Australian history |
| 42% | NEMO | 4 | Titular character in the best-selling DVD of all time |
| 42% | CHOCOLATE | 9 | Best selling novel and film: "Like Water for __" |
| 42% | ATOM | 4 | ___ bomb, nuclear weapon which was first mentioned in the sci-fi novel "The World Set Free" by HG Wells |
| 42% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 42% | BIBLE | 5 | Best-selling book in the world |
| 42% | OREO | 4 | Best-selling cookie in the world |