| 100% | ARRIS | 5 | "Mrs." in a Paul Gallico novel title |
| 55% | ADANO | 5 | Sicilian town in a 1944 novel title |
| 51% | WUSA | 4 | Radio station in a 1970 Paul Newman title |
| 50% | HALSEY | 6 | Title admiral in a Paul and Linda McCartney hit |
| 49% | PNIN | 4 | Title professor in a 1957 novel |
| 49% | THESEA | 6 | Title location in a Hemingway novel |
| 48% | CARRIE | 6 | Title character in a Theodore Dreiser novel |
| 48% | MATILDA | 7 | Title girl in a Roald Dahl novel |
| 48% | TESS | 4 | Title woman in a Thomas Hardy novel |
| 48% | LORDJIM | 7 | Title character in a Joseph Conrad novel |
| 48% | LEILA | 5 | Title woman in a J. P. Donleavy novel |
| 48% | ADANO | 5 | Title town in a 1945 Pulitzer-winning novel |
| 48% | BEAUGESTE | 9 | Title Legionnaire in a P.C. Wren novel |
| 47% | LAD | 3 | Title collie in a novel by Albert Payson Terhune |
| 47% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 47% | CASE | 4 | Word in the title of many a detective novel |
| 47% | BLACKBEAUTY | 11 | Classic novel with a chapter titled "My Breaking In" |
| 46% | FLICKA | 6 | Title horse in a Mary O'Hara children's novel |
| 46% | EYRE | 4 | Title governess Jane in a Charlotte Brontë novel |
| 46% | ANNA | 4 | "___ Karenina," Leo Tolstoy novel with a palindromic name in its title |
| 45% | CUJO | 4 | Title St. Bernard in a Stephen King novel |
| 45% | CASE | 4 | Word in many a detective novel title |
| 45% | SHALIMAR | 8 | Title “clown” in a Salman Rushdie novel |
| 44% | PLUTO | 5 | "The ___ Files," Neil deGrasse Tyson novel featuring a dwarf planet in its title |
| 43% | ARRIS | 5 | Paul Gallico title character |
| 43% | THETUBA | 7 | Tubby, in a Paul Tripp book |
| 43% | BESO | 4 | Kiss, in a Paul Anka song |
| 43% | ANEW | 4 | In a novel way |
| 43% | WHITEFANG | 9 | Title wolf/dog hybrid in a Jack London novel: 2 wds. |
| 42% | LITTLEDORRIT | 12 | Title woman in a Charles Dickens novel who grows up in a debtors' prison: 2 wds. |