| 100% | JACOBINS | 8 | “The Black ___,” C. L. R. James book about participants in the Haitian Revolution |
| 35% | GOSPEL | 6 | One of four books about Jesus in the Bible |
| 35% | BAGHEERA | 8 | The black panther in The Jungle Book |
| 33% | SIXTYSIX | 8 | Books in the King James Version |
| 32% | SMERSH | 6 | Soviet baddies in the James Bond books |
| 32% | VELVETEEN | 9 | Beloved toy in books about The __ Rabbit |
| 32% | DEADHOUSE | 9 | "Welcome to ___," the first book in the original Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine: 2 wds. |
| 31% | LIPO | 4 | Poet written about in the Books of Tang |
| 31% | DRNO | 4 | Villain in the title of a James Bond book |
| 30% | POTTERS | 7 | Harry, Lily and James are these in the book series |
| 30% | HEIDI | 5 | Children's book about a girl in the Swiss Alps |
| 30% | THEHELP | 7 | Book, film about black maids in Southern town |
| 30% | TEMPLEFOLK | 10 | Aaliyah Bilal short-story collection about Black Muslims in America that's a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 30% | HISTORY | 7 | School subject in which you may learn about the American Revolution |
| 30% | GUNN | 4 | Ben —, marooned pirate in the R L Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 30% | DUMMY | 5 | "Night of the Living ___," 1993 "Goosebumps" book by R.L. Stine about a ventriloquist's puppet |
| 30% | CASTE | 5 | “___: The Origins of Our Discontents” (Isabel Wilkerson book about social stratification in America) |
| 30% | GROUNDBREAKING | 14 | Book-jacket blurb for The Quake Book-Finding Faults in L.A.? |
| 30% | DEADSIMPLE | 10 | 2005 novel by Peter James; first book in the Roy Grace series |
| 30% | NORA | 4 | 2000 biopic about James Joyce featuring Susan Lynch in the title role |
| 29% | JANEGOODALL | 11 | Writer whose second book about chimpanzees, "In the Shadow of Man," was published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | EELS | 4 | The Book of ___ (2020 best seller about "the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World") |
| 29% | JOHNREED | 8 | Journalist who wrote about the October Revolution in "Ten Days That Shook the World" |
| 29% | ACIDTRIP | 8 | Experience that Michael Pollan wrote about in the book "How to Change Your Mind" |
| 29% | BAGHEERA | 8 | Black panther in 1894 Rudyard Kipling short story collection The Jungle Book |
| 28% | BETTERTHANPULPFICTION | 21 | Book-jacket blurb for Not a Seed in the House-How the Navel Orange Changed L.A.? |
| 28% | IRANI | 5 | R C —, England all-rounder who took 3-30 against Namibia in the 2003 Cricket World Cup |
| 28% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 28% | NEW | 3 | "Orange Is the ___ Black," Netflix original series created by Jenji Kohan about life in prison |
| 28% | UNIVERSE | 8 | "Finding Our Place in the ___," nonfiction book by Helene Courtois about our galaxy's home |