| 100% | GIRL | 4 | "The ___ Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" (Stieg Larsson novel) |
| 85% | WHO | 3 | "The Girl ___ Kicked the Hornets' Nest" (Stieg Larsson novel) |
| 82% | NEST | 4 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' ___" (Stieg Larsson novel) |
| 72% | NEST | 4 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's ___" (Stieg Larsson thriller) |
| 71% | NEST | 4 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's ___" (third volume of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" series) |
| 64% | LARSSON | 7 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" novelist |
| 60% | STIEGLARSSON | 12 | Swedish author whose Millennium trilogy ended with "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest": 2 wds. |
| 54% | NEST | 4 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' ___" |
| 54% | NEST | 4 | "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's ___" |
| 51% | GIRLWITH | 8 | Stieg Larsson novel The __ the Dragon Tattoo |
| 51% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | Former US president who authored the book "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War": 2 wds. |
| 49% | KICKED | 6 | The Girl Who __ The Hornets' Nest; Swedish drama |
| 42% | WEB | 3 | "The Girl in the Spider's ___" (first novel in the "Millennium" series not written by Stieg Larsson) |
| 42% | DRAGON | 6 | "The Girl with the ___ Tattoo," best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson that was originally written in Swedish |
| 38% | STIEG | 5 | Larsson who wrote the "Millennium" trilogy |
| 37% | GIRL | 4 | "The ___ with the Dragon Tattoo" (book by Stieg Larsson) |
| 37% | GIRL | 4 | Stieg Larsson's "The ___ with the Dragon Tattoo" |
| 36% | JASPER | 6 | Fforde who writes the "Thursday Next" mystery novels |
| 36% | DONOGHUE | 8 | Emma who wrote the novel Room |
| 36% | ELLISON | 7 | Ralph who wrote the novel "Juneteenth" |
| 36% | MEYER | 5 | Stephenie who wrote the "Twilight" novels |
| 36% | PUNTER | 6 | Football player who kicks the ball downfield to the opposing team |
| 36% | ALISON | 6 | Lurie who won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “Foreign Affairs” |
| 36% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 36% | TATTOO | 6 | The Girl with the Dragon __, book by Stieg Larsson |
| 36% | STIEG | 5 | Larsson who wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
| 36% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky who wrote the V.I. Warshawski novels |
| 36% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel The Godfather |
| 36% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 36% | TYRA | 4 | Banks who wrote the 2011 novel "Modelland" |