| 100% | STONE | 5 | & 22A The —, 1964 novel by Margaret Laurence |
| 54% | LAIROF | 6 | & 22A The —, 1911 novel by Bram Stoker |
| 54% | TENANTOF | 8 | & 22A The —, 1848 novel by Anne Bronte |
| 54% | BRIDGEOVER | 10 | & 22A The —, 1952 novel by Pierre Boulle |
| 54% | SPIRE | 5 | The —, 1964 novel by William Golding |
| 52% | GIRLSINTHEIR | 12 | & 22A 1964 novel by Edna O'Brien |
| 51% | MURDEROF | 8 | & 22A The —, 1926 novel by Agatha Christie featuring detective Hercule Poirot |
| 46% | HERZOG | 6 | 1964 novel by Saul Bellow |
| 46% | NERVE | 5 | 1964 novel by Dick Francis |
| 46% | ASINGLEMAN | 10 | 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood |
| 45% | HANDMAIDSTALE | 13 | "The ___," 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood: 2 wds. |
| 44% | NIGHT | 5 | , 22A & 5D 1945 novel by Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym George Hopley |
| 43% | THEHANDMAIDS | 12 | & 10A 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood |
| 43% | GONEWITH | 8 | &16D 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell |
| 43% | YOUONLYLIVE | 11 | & 19D 1964 novel by Ian Fleming |
| 43% | LASTEXITTO | 10 | & 12A 1964 novel by Hubert Selby, Jr |
| 43% | BLIND | 5 | "The ___ Assassin" (novel by Margaret Atwood) |
| 42% | ROBBERBRIDE | 11 | "The ___," 1993 novel by Margaret Atwood about three women who get exploited individually by another woman: 2 wds. |
| 41% | EDIBLEWOMAN | 11 | "The ___," 1969 novel by Margaret Atwood about a young woman named Marian who is a market researcher: 2 wds. |
| 41% | THEBLIND | 8 | & 14D 2000 Booker Prize-winning novel by Margaret Atwood |
| 41% | MACHINE | 7 | Novel by H. G. Wells: The Time __ |
| 40% | PEOPLE | 6 | Novel by Chinua Achebe: A Man of the __ |
| 40% | ORANGE | 6 | Novel by Joanne Harris: Five Quarters of the __ |
| 40% | DOLLHOUSE | 9 | 2011 novel by the Kardashian sisters |
| 40% | CHOLERA | 7 | Novel by García Márquez: Love in the Time of __ |
| 39% | IMPORTANCEOF | 12 | & 22A The —, 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde |
| 39% | PIMPERNEL | 9 | "Flowery" novel by Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet __ |