| 100% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 56% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 51% | SEVENTEEN | 9 | 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington subtitled A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William |
| 50% | DOCTORSYN | 9 | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh |
| 48% | DRED | 4 | 1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp |
| 47% | DRED | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp," novel by Harriet Stowe |
| 46% | RUDGE | 5 | "Barnaby ___: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty," historical novel by Charles Dickens |
| 41% | CLARISSA | 8 | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady |
| 41% | SPY | 3 | The —, 1821 James Fenimore Cooper novel subtitled A Tale of the Neutral Ground |
| 40% | UNGAVA | 6 | 1858 novel by R M Ballantyne subtitled A Tale of Esquimaux-Land |
| 39% | TWOSISTERS | 10 | 1970 work by Gore Vidal subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir |
| 39% | BLACK | 5 | & 12D The —, Robert Louis Stevenson novel subtitled A Tale of the Two Roses |
| 39% | TYPHOON | 7 | 1902 short novel by Joseph Conrad featuring steamer the SS Nan-Shan |
| 39% | EVELINA | 7 | 1778 novel by Frances Burney subtitled The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World |
| 39% | DRED | 4 | Harriet Beecher Stowe novel subtitled "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" |
| 39% | DUST | 4 | "___: A Tale of the Wired West," single-player video game published by GTE Entertainment |
| 39% | SILASMARNER | 11 | Third novel by George Eliot (birthday yesterday) "___: The Weaver of Raveloe" which is a simple tale of a linen weaver: 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 |
| 38% | SHADOWLINE | 10 | The —, 1917 novel by Joseph Conrad |
| 38% | HORNETSNEST | 11 | The —, 2003 book by Jimmy Carter subtitled A Novel of the Revolutionary War |
| 38% | PORTRAIT | 8 | "A ___ of the Artist as a Young Man," 1977 film directed by Joseph Strick which is based on a novel by James Joyce |
| 38% | WATERBABIES | 11 | The —, 1863 children's novel by Charles Kingsley subtitled A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby |
| 37% | CAMILLA | 7 | 1796 novel by Fanny Burney subtitled A Picture of Youth |
| 37% | PICCADILLY | 10 | 1870 novel by Laurence Oliphant subtitled A Fragment of Contemporary Biography |