| 100% | SUPREMACY | 9 | "The Bourne ___," second Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum in 1986 |
| 80% | ULTIMATUM | 9 | "The Bourne ___," third Jason Bourne novel written by Robert Ludlum in 1990 |
| 44% | ICARUSAGENDA | 12 | The —, 1988 novel by Robert Ludlum |
| 42% | CIA | 3 | Spy org. in the Jason Bourne novels (Abbr.) |
| 41% | COLONELSUN | 10 | 1968 novel written by Kingsley Amis under the name Robert Markham |
| 39% | BOOK | 4 | "The Ring and the ___," narrative poem written by Robert Browning that is set in Rome |
| 39% | FAIL | 4 | "Without ___" 2002 novel written by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher helps Mary Ellen Froelich protect the Vice-President-Elect |
| 38% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | Novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison (birthday today) which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953: 2 wds. |
| 37% | LUSTBADER | 9 | Author Eric Van ___, who continued the Jason Bourne series after Robert Ludlum’s death |
| 37% | UNIVERSE | 8 | 1941 novella by Robert A Heinlein republished in 1963 novel Orphans of the Sky |
| 37% | APLACE | 6 | 1970 novel by Melvyn Bragg, second in The Cumbrian Trilogy |
| 37% | FORWEAREMANY | 12 | Second novel in the "Bobiverse" science-fiction series by 32-Across (4 wds.) |
| 36% | THEHAJ | 6 | Novel written by Leon Uris in 1984: 2 wds. |
| 36% | WEB | 3 | "The Girl in the Spider's ___" (first novel in the "Millennium" series not written by Stieg Larsson) |
| 36% | GIRLS | 5 | "Kiss the ___," second novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson |
| 36% | AMBLERWARNING | 13 | "The ___," spy thriller written by Robert Ludlum which was completed by a different author after his death: 2 wds. |
| 36% | AMNESIA | 7 | Memory malady in the "Jason Bourne" novels and films |
| 35% | THEHOLCROFT | 11 | 1978 novel by Robert Ludlum |
| 35% | CANON | 5 | "The 7th ___," 2016 legal thriller novel by Robert Dugoni set in San Francisco |
| 35% | THEPARSIFAL | 11 | & 17A 1982 novel by Robert Ludlum |
| 35% | THEOSTERMAN | 11 | & 16D 1972 novel by Robert Ludlum |
| 35% | ROSE | 4 | "The Name of the ___," best-selling novel by Umberto Eco that was originally written in Italian |
| 35% | DOWN | 4 | "Long Way ___," novel by Jason Reynolds where the story takes place over just sixty seconds |
| 35% | BFG | 3 | "The ___," children's novel written by Roald Dahl in 1982 about a young girl named Sophie who meets a colossal man |
| 35% | PHANTOM | 7 | The__ of the Opera, novel written by Gaston Leroux |
| 34% | DRAGON | 6 | "The Girl with the ___ Tattoo," best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson that was originally written in Swedish |
| 34% | LUDLUM | 6 | Robert __, wrote The Bourne Supremacy |
| 34% | BABE | 4 | "___, the Gallant Pig," children's novel written by Dick King-Smith |
| 34% | AMNESIAC | 8 | Jason Bourne, in the Bourne series |