| 100% | THEREDPONY | 10 | 1937 volume of four stories by John Steinbeck whose central character is Jody Tiflin |
| 97% | RED | 3 | & 19D The —, 1937 volume of four stories by John Steinbeck whose central character is Jody Tiflin |
| 45% | REDPONY | 7 | The —, 1937 novella by John Steinbeck whose protagonist is Jody Tiflin |
| 35% | WOBEGONBOY | 10 | 1997 novel by Garrison Keillor whose central character is John Tollefson |
| 34% | WOBEGON | 7 | & 12D 1997 novel by Garrison Keillor whose central character is John Tollefson |
| 31% | PARADESEND | 10 | Tetralogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford whose central character is Christopher Tietjens |
| 30% | THECONSTANT | 11 | & 14D 2001 novel by John le Carre whose central character is Justin Quayle |
| 30% | RUMPOLE | 7 | & 22A 2001 volume of short stories by John Mortimer |
| 30% | MANAND | 6 | & 1D George Bernard Shaw stage play premiered in 1905 whose central character is John Tanner |
| 29% | GOLDMINE | 8 | 1970 novel by Wilbur Smith whose central character is Rod Ironsides |
| 29% | THEFERMATA | 10 | 1994 novel by Nicholson Baker whose central character is Arno Strine |
| 28% | USA | 3 | Novel trilogy by John Dos Passos whose second volume is 1919 |
| 28% | EASTOFEDEN | 10 | John Steinbeck novel inspired by the biblical story of Cain and Abel: 3 wds |
| 28% | THEBOTTLEIMP | 12 | 1891 short story by Robert Louis Stevenson whose Hawaiian central character is Keawe |
| 28% | USA | 3 | Novel trilogy by John Dos Passos whose second volume is 1932's 1919 |
| 28% | THEPORTRAIT | 11 | & 6D 1881 novel by Henry James whose central character is Isabel Archer |
| 28% | WHENEIGHT | 9 | & 1D 1966 novel by Alistair Maclean whose central character is Philip Calvert |
| 28% | ANAMERICAN | 10 | & 8A 1925 novel by Theodore Dreiser whose central character is Clyde Griffiths |
| 28% | THEGOLDEN | 9 | & 22A 1962 novel by Doris Lessing whose central character is Anna Wulf |
| 28% | PRECIOUS | 8 | & 20D 1924 novel by Mary Webb whose central character is Prue Sarn |
| 28% | THEGOLDBUG | 10 | Short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843 whose central character is William Legrand |
| 27% | DEATHIN | 7 | & 14A 1912 novella by Thomas Mann whose central character is Gustav von Aschenbach |
| 27% | PARADESEND | 10 | Tetralogy by Ford Madox Ford whose central character is Christopher Tietjens |
| 27% | ANGLOSAXON | 10 | & 5D 1956 novel by Angus Wilson whose central character is Gerald Middleton (5-5,9) |
| 27% | FERMATA | 7 | The —, 1994 novel by Nicholson Baker whose central character is Arno Strine |
| 27% | TOHAVE | 6 | & 6D 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel whose central character is Harry Morgan |
| 26% | FIVEWEEKSINA | 12 | & 21A 1863 adventure novel by Jules Verne whose central character is Dr Samuel Ferguson |
| 26% | DISTRICTOF | 10 | & 13D Novel trilogy by John Dos Passos whose first part was 1939's Adventures of a Young Man |