| 100% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | 1871 novel by 42-Across subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life" |
| 55% | MIDDLEMARCH | 11 | George Eliot novel subtitled A Story of Provincial Life |
| 49% | ELIOT | 5 | George whose most famous work is subtitled “A Study of Provincial Life” |
| 46% | LITTLEMEN | 9 | 1871 novel by Louisa M Alcott subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys |
| 46% | CAMILLA | 7 | 1796 novel by Fanny Burney subtitled A Picture of Youth |
| 45% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 45% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 45% | PICCADILLY | 10 | 1870 novel by Laurence Oliphant subtitled A Fragment of Contemporary Biography |
| 44% | LITTLE | 6 | & 15A 1871 novel by Louisa M Alcott subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys |
| 43% | DOCTORSYN | 9 | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh |
| 41% | BEAUTY | 6 | "On ___," 2005 novel by Zadie Smith following the lives of a mixed-race British-American family |
| 41% | CLARISSA | 8 | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady |
| 41% | SEVENTEEN | 9 | 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington subtitled A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William |
| 41% | STRANGER | 8 | "The ___," novel by Albert Camus published in 1942 which follows the life of a character named Meursault |
| 40% | SWAMPLANDIA | 11 | 2011 novel by 30-Across about a family of alligator wrestlers |
| 39% | CHILD | 5 | "The Snow ___," novel by Eowyn Ivey set in the Alaskan wilderness, where a girl made of snow comes to life |
| 39% | TWOSISTERS | 10 | 1970 work by Gore Vidal subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir |
| 39% | THEPILOTSWIFE | 13 | Novel by 29-Across about the aftermath of a plane crash (3 wds.) |
| 39% | EVELINA | 7 | 1778 novel by Frances Burney subtitled The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World |
| 39% | OLDROWLEY | 9 | 1933 historical biography by Dennis Wheatley subtitled A Private Life of Charles II |
| 38% | AURORADAWN | 10 | Debut novel by 43-Across subtitled "Or, the True History of Andrew Reale" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | AJACOBITE | 9 | & 17A 1893 novel by G A Henty subtitled Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII of Sweden |
| 37% | CONCRETEROSE | 12 | 2021 bestselling novel by Angie Thomas that is a prequel of 13-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | GOSETA | 6 | Authored by 42-Across, "___ Watchman" is one of her two published novels: 3 wds. |
| 37% | HELLOBEAUTIFUL | 14 | 2023 novel by 52-Across that's a retelling of "Little Women" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | MEPHISTO | 8 | 1936 written work by Klaus Mann subtitled Novel of a Career |
| 37% | PEOPLE | 6 | Novel by Chinua Achebe: A Man of the __ |
| 37% | IWILLFINDYOU | 12 | 2023 novel by 40-Across about a man wrongly accused of murdering his son (4 wds.) |