| 100% | AFANATIC | 8 | & 4D 1984 volume of short stories by Edna O'Brien |
| 50% | SKELETONCREW | 12 | 1985 volume of short stories by Stephen King |
| 50% | ICECREAM | 8 | 2000 volume of short stories by Helen Dunmore |
| 50% | SCREWJACK | 9 | 1991 volume of short stories by Hunter S Thompson |
| 50% | RUMPOLE | 7 | & 22A 2001 volume of short stories by John Mortimer |
| 50% | FIRSTLOVE | 9 | & 11D 1975 volume of short stories by Ian McEwan |
| 50% | MYENEMYS | 8 | & 17A 1962 volume of short stories by Kingsley Amis |
| 49% | DISASTERAREA | 12 | The —, 1967 volume of short stories by J G Ballard |
| 49% | FLYINGGOAT | 10 | The —, 1939 volume of short stories by H E Bates |
| 49% | PRICE | 5 | & 17A The —, 2009 volume of short stories by Peter Robinson |
| 49% | INNOCENCEOF | 11 | & 7D The —, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton |
| 48% | SOMETHING | 9 | & 22A Volume of short stories by Katherine Mansfield published posthumously in 1924 |
| 39% | TAKE | 4 | "Winner ___ Nothing," collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway |
| 39% | FILTHYANIMALS | 13 | 2021 book of short stories by 42-Across (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BRADBURY | 8 | Ray —, author whose volumes of short stories include The Illustrated Man |
| 37% | INPLAINSIGHT | 12 | 2019 collection of short stories by 31-Across featuring Kate Burkholder (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THEPHANTOM | 10 | & 13D — and Other Eerie Tales, 1888 collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling |
| 36% | ONLYTHELUCKY | 12 | 2018 collection of short stories by 31-Across featuring fictional police chief Kate Burkholder (3 wds.) |
| 35% | GALATEA | 7 | Short story by Madeline Miller that's a retelling of Greek myths featuring Pygmalion |
| 35% | JUNGLEBOOK | 10 | The —, 1894 volume of stories by Rudyard Kipling |
| 35% | NIGHT | 5 | 1972 novel by Edna O'Brien |
| 35% | BARTLEBY | 8 | & 22A 1853 short story by Herman Melville subtitled A Story of Wall Street |
| 35% | GIRLSINTHEIR | 12 | & 22A 1964 novel by Edna O'Brien |
| 34% | PRINCE | 6 | "The Happy ___ and Other Tales," 1888 collection of short stories for children by Oscar Wilde |
| 33% | THEREDPONY | 10 | 1937 volume of four stories by John Steinbeck whose central character is Jody Tiflin |
| 33% | NOUGHTSAND | 10 | & 14D 1891 volume of stories, studies and sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch |
| 33% | GIRL | 4 | "Birthday ___," 2002 short story by Haruki Murakami that is a recounting of a person's twentieth birthday |