| 100% | QUIETAMERICAN | 13 | 1955 Graham Greene novel, with "The" |
| 73% | QUIETAMERICAN | 13 | Graham Greene novel set in Saigon, with "The" |
| 70% | BRIGHTON | 8 | Graham Greene novel with a candy name: __ Rock |
| 67% | AFFAIR | 6 | Graham Greene novel, The End of the __ |
| 59% | THIRDMAN | 8 | The __, Graham Greene novel and film set in Vienna |
| 56% | ENGLAND | 7 | & 21A 1935 Graham Greene novel featuring the characters Anthony and Kate Farrant |
| 53% | LOLITA | 6 | 1955 novel with the line "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight" |
| 53% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 52% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 51% | COMEDIANS | 9 | The —, 1966 novel by Graham Greene |
| 51% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 50% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 49% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 49% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 49% | HAVANA | 6 | "Our Man in __": Graham Greene novel set in Cuba |
| 48% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 48% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 48% | HOWARDSENDOFTHEAFFAIR | 21 | "Frost/Nixon" director's copy of a Graham Greene novel? |
| 48% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 47% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 47% | OLDMANANDTHESEA | 15 | 1952 novel, with The |
| 47% | NEVERLETMEGO | 12 | 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel with the line “Carers aren’t machines” |
| 46% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 46% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 46% | SAHL | 4 | Comic with the 1955 album "At Sunset" |
| 46% | AFL | 3 | It merged with the CIO in 1955 |
| 46% | CIO | 3 | It merged with the AFL in 1955 |
| 46% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 46% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky with the 2024 novel "Pay Dirt" |