| 100% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 71% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," Louise Erdrich novel that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 63% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 60% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 58% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 55% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 55% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | COPPERHEAD | 10 | "Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 53% | LIGHT | 5 | "All the ___ We Cannot See," Anthony Doerr novel that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 52% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 52% | PIRANESI | 8 | 2020 Susanna Clarke novel featuring themes of magical realism that won the Women's Prize for Fiction |
| 51% | ROAD | 4 | "The ___," 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 48% | COLOR | 5 | "The ___ Purple," Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 48% | HARVEY | 6 | 1944 Broadway play by Mary Chase that won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 46% | THEROUNDHOUSE | 13 | Louise Erdrich novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012 (3 wds.) |
| 46% | THESIEGEOF | 10 | & 10D J G Farrell novel that won the 1973 Booker Prize for Fiction |
| 46% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 46% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize (3 wds.) |
| 45% | OFA | 3 | "Half ___ Yellow Sun," novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 45% | THEGOOD | 7 | & 19A 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year |
| 44% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 44% | POSTCARDS | 9 | Novel by 29-Across that won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction |
| 43% | THEECHOMAKER | 12 | 2006 novel by 32-Across that won the National Book Award for Fiction (3 wds.) |
| 43% | RULEOFWOLVES | 12 | Novel by 40-Across that won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy (3 wds.) |