| 100% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___" (2020 Pulitzer Prize winner by Colson Whitehead) |
| 67% | BOYS | 4 | "The Nickel ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 59% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize (3 wds.) |
| 58% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 51% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 51% | THENICKELBOYS | 13 | 2019 Colson Whitehead novel, about the Dozier School, that won the Pulitzer Prize: 3 wds. |
| 51% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 50% | JOHNHENRYDAYS | 13 | 2001 Colson Whitehead novel, about a historical festival, that was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize: 3 wds. |
| 48% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for "A Death in the Family" |
| 48% | AGEOF | 5 | Wharton's Pulitzer Prize winner, The __ Innocence |
| 48% | NICKELBOYS | 10 | Colson Whitehead's story of the Dozier School, that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (with "The") |
| 46% | INGE | 4 | William, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for the Broadway play "Picnic" |
| 45% | NORMAN | 6 | Marsha, 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama for the play " 'night, Mother" |
| 44% | CORA | 4 | Colson Whitehead protagonist played by Thuso Mbedu on The Underground Railroad |
| 43% | STUDSTERKEL | 11 | "The Good War" Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 42% | WILSON | 6 | August —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for The Piano Lesson and Fences |
| 42% | ERDRICH | 7 | 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Night Watchman” |
| 42% | AKINS | 5 | Zoe —, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for 1935 stage play The Old Maid |
| 40% | LEE | 3 | Pulitzer prize winner Harper |
| 40% | ISABEL | 6 | Pulitzer Prize winner Wilkerson |
| 40% | ALS | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton |
| 40% | ADA | 3 | Winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, ___ Louise Huxtable |
| 40% | LIN | 3 | Pulitzer Prize winner ___-Manuel Miranda |
| 40% | VIET | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner ___ Thanh Nguyen |
| 40% | LOISLANE | 8 | Pulitzer Prize winner of comics |
| 39% | LINMANUELMIRANDA | 16 | Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| 39% | WALLACESTEVENS | 14 | Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 39% | TARTT | 5 | Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 39% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 39% | TONI | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winner for Beloved, __ Morrison |