| 100% | ARM | 3 | "The Man with the Golden ___" (National Book Award-winning novel by Nelson Algren) |
| 60% | INVISIBLE | 9 | "___ Man," 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the National Book Award for Fiction |
| 55% | AMERICANAH | 10 | Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 54% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | Novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison (birthday today) which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953: 2 wds. |
| 54% | FRIEND | 6 | With “The,” Sigrid Nunez novel that won a 2018 National Book Award |
| 53% | THEECHOMAKER | 12 | 2006 novel by 32-Across that won the National Book Award for Fiction (3 wds.) |
| 52% | MARGARET | 8 | ___ Mitchell, novelist whose only novel "Gone with the Wind" won her a Pulitzer and a National Book Award |
| 51% | THREEJUNES | 10 | Début novel for which Julia Glass won the 2002 National Book Award |
| 50% | TESS | 4 | Gunty whose novel "The Rabbit Hutch" won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction |
| 49% | ARM | 3 | Nelson Algren's "The Man with the Golden ___" |
| 49% | CHARLESYU | 9 | Writer whose novel "Interior Chinatown" won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 49% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | Writer whose novel "Trust Exercise" won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 49% | AMERICANAH | 10 | Adichie novel that won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 49% | ECHO | 4 | "The ___ Maker" (National Book Award-winning novel by Richard Powers) |
| 49% | TESSGUNTY | 9 | Writer whose novel "The Rabbit Hutch" won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 48% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | 1953 National Book Award-winning novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | THEROUNDHOUSE | 13 | Louise Erdrich novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012 (3 wds.) |
| 47% | LORDOFMISRULE | 13 | Jaimy Gordon novel that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010 (3 wds.) |
| 46% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson ___, "The Man With the Golden Arm" novelist |
| 46% | JASONMOTT | 9 | Writer whose novel "Hell of a Book" won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 46% | INDECENCY | 9 | Book that won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry, written by Justin Phillip Reed |
| 46% | MALINDALO | 9 | Writer whose novel "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" won the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (2 wds.) |
| 46% | SUSANCHOI | 9 | 15-Across and 33-Across writer who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for her novel "Trust Exercise" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson ___, author of "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 46% | ALGREN | 6 | Nelson who wrote "The Man With the Golden Arm" |
| 46% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Author whose novels "Salvage the Bones" and "Sing, Unburied, Sing" each won a National Book Award: 2 wds. |
| 46% | THEFRIEND | 9 | Book that won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, written by Sigrid Nunez: 2 wds. |
| 45% | THEROUNDHOUSE | 13 | 2012 Novel by 44-Across that won a National Book Award for Fiction (3 wds.) |
| 45% | BETWEENTHE | 10 | With 35-Across, National Book Award-winning autobiography by 45-Across whose title comes from a Richard Wright poem (2 wds.) |
| 44% | PATTI | 5 | Smith who won the 2010 National Book Award |