| 100% | PARTY | 5 | "Luncheon of the Boating ___" (Susan Vreeland novel about Renoir) |
| 90% | PARTY | 5 | "Luncheon of the Boating ___" (Susan Vreeland novel about 13-Across) |
| 55% | RENOIR | 6 | Luncheon of the Boating Party painter |
| 48% | APASSAGETOINDIA | 15 | Novel about the trial of Dr. Aziz |
| 47% | RENOIR | 6 | "Luncheon of the Boating Party" painter |
| 47% | RENOIR | 6 | "Luncheon of the Boating Party" artist |
| 47% | INAMERICA | 9 | Susan Sontag novel about an immigrant to the U.S. |
| 46% | ULYSSES | 7 | Novel about one day in the life of three Dubliners |
| 46% | RENOIR | 6 | "Luncheon of the Boating Party" painter Pierre-Auguste |
| 46% | MOHICANS | 8 | Fenimore Cooper novel about the last of this tribe |
| 46% | SONTAG | 6 | Susan —, author of 1963 novel The Benefactor |
| 45% | RENOIR | 6 | "Luncheon of the Boating Party" impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste |
| 45% | CRASH | 5 | 1973 novel about symphorophilia, or the erotic fetishization of tragedies |
| 45% | RENOIR | 6 | Artist who painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" |
| 44% | ABBEY | 5 | "Northanger ___" (Jane Austen novel about the daughter of a rural clergyman) |
| 44% | OUT | 3 | Natsuo Kirino crime novel about four women on the fringes of society |
| 43% | OURMISSINGHARTS | 15 | Celeste Ng novel about the absence of male deer in people's lives? |
| 43% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance |
| 43% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 Pulitzer-winning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family's home |
| 42% | LORD | 4 | "___ of the Flies" (dystopian novel about boys marooned on an island) |
| 42% | THEPILOTSWIFE | 13 | Novel by 29-Across about the aftermath of a plane crash (3 wds.) |
| 42% | FIELDING | 8 | Helen —, author of 2013 novel Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy |
| 40% | AFT | 3 | Back of the boat |
| 40% | STERN | 5 | Back of the boat |
| 40% | THEBRIGHTSWORD | 14 | Lev Grossman novel about a knight who arrives in Camelot after the death of King Arthur (3 wds.) |
| 40% | WORLDS | 6 | "The War of the ___," 1897 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells about alien invasion |
| 40% | DAYBOOK | 7 | This clue is about the Elie Wiesel novel, not the portion of a week |
| 40% | KNEW | 4 | Henry James novel of 1897 about the daughter of divorced, narcissistic parents: "What Maisie ___" |
| 39% | THELIGHTHOUSE | 13 | "To ___," writer Virginia Woolf's novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye: 2 wds. |
| 39% | MIND | 4 | “The Life of the ___,” Christine Smallwood novel about lost opportunities to become a mother and professor (March, 2021) |