100% | OFTHEDAY | 8 | "The Remains ___," 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (birthday today) for which he won the Booker Prize and which was also adapted into a film: 3 wds. |
60% | NEVERLET | 8 | "___ Me Go," 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro for which he won the ALA Alex Award and which was also adapted into a movie: 2 wds. |
43% | THEUNCONSOLED | 13 | 1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro for which he won the Cheltenham Prize: 2 wds. |
39% | LARRYMCMURTRY | 13 | American novelist whose 1985 novel "Lonesome Dove" won the Pulitzer Prize and whose six novels were adapted into films: 2 wds. |
38% | NEVERLETME | 10 | Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel, "___ Go" which was adapted into a movie starring Carey Mulligan: 3 wds. |
38% | SCENTOFA | 8 | "___ Woman," 1992 film starring Al Pacino (birthday today) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor: 3 wds. |
37% | OLDMAN | 6 | *"The ___ and the Sea," 1952 novel by Ernest Hemingway that was adapted into a 1958 film: 2 wds. |
36% | BEACH | 5 | Alex Garland's much-loved travel themed novel "The ___," which was also adapted into a film by Danny Boyle starring Leonardo DiCaprio |
36% | BARBWIRE | 8 | Comic book series published by Comics Greatest World, which was later adapted into a film starring Pamela Anderson: 2 wds. |
35% | LESMISERABLES | 13 | Victor Hugo's novel which was also adapted into a movie starring Anne Hathaway and has a sentence with 823 words: 2 wds. |
35% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | Novel written by Ralph Waldo Ellison (birthday today) which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953: 2 wds. |
35% | ISLANDSIN | 9 | "___ the Stream," a song by Kenny Rogers - whose birthday it is today - and Dolly Parton which reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100: 3 wds. |
35% | HANDMAIDSTALE | 13 | Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The ___" which has been adapted into a film, an opera and a TV series: 2 wds. |
34% | MAZERUNNER | 10 | James Dashner's dystopian novel, "The ___" which was adapted into a film directed by Wes Ball: 2 wds. |
34% | CODEOFCONDUCT | 13 | "No ___," action film starring Charlie and Martin Sheen, for which he was also Executive Producer and co-writer: 3 wds. |
34% | THEREMAINSOF | 12 | & 15A 1989 Booker-McConnell Prize for Fiction-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro |
33% | APAINTEDHOUSE | 13 | Novel by John Grisham which was made into a television film starring Scott Glenn in 2003: 3 wds. |
33% | RICHARDFORD | 11 | "The Sportswriter" novelist whose novel 47-Across was adapted into a film by 14-Across (2 wds.) |
32% | MEYOURLOVE | 10 | "Bring ___," short story written by Charles Bukowski which was adapted into a film starring Ian Hart: 3 wds. |
32% | HOLYGHOST | 9 | Book by John Sandford which was part of the "Virgil Flowers" novel series and became a NYT 2018 Bestseller: 2 wds. |
32% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
32% | BENKINGSLEY | 11 | Actor whose birthday it is today who won an Academy Award for playing Gandhi in the titular film and was knighted in 2002: 2 wds. |
32% | BRIEFHISTORYOF | 14 | "A ___Time," 1988 book on cosmology by Stephen Hawking which is written in a non-technical way for the masses: 3 wds. |
32% | VENDETTA | 8 | "V for ___," graphic novel by Alan Moore about a dystopian future in the UK that was adapted into a Natalie Portman film |
31% | LINCOLN | 7 | "The ___ Lawyer," 2005 legal thriller novel by Michael Connelly which was adapted into a film |
31% | THELIONKING | 11 | Animated film released in 1994 which was influenced by Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and tells the story of a character named Simba: 3 wds. |
31% | NOEL | 4 | (2/3) Pere ___ is the name he goes by in France, which is also a word for a carol |
31% | NAUGHTYDOG | 10 | Video game company that created the "Uncharted" action-adventure game series, which has been adapted into a film starring Antonio Banderas, 31-Across, and 43-Across (2 wds.) |
31% | ONCHESILBEACH | 13 | Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 48-Across adapted as a 2017 film starring Saoirse Ronan (3 wds.) |
31% | BADNEWSBEARS | 12 | Sports comedy, directed by Richard Linklater, based on an alcoholic baseball player and is also a reboot of 1976 film of the same name: 3 wds. |