| 100% | NAKEDSUN | 8 | 1957 Isaac Asimov novel, with "The" |
| 55% | GIDGET | 6 | 1957 novel by Frederick Kohner subtitled The Little Girl with Big Ideas |
| 53% | IROBOT | 6 | 1950 Isaac Asimov novel |
| 53% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 52% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 51% | ABA | 3 | Isaac Asimov's "Murder at the ___" |
| 51% | ABA | 3 | Isaac Asimov mystery "Murder at the ___" |
| 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" |
| 48% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 48% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 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” |
| 47% | NAKEDSUN | 8 | "The ___," 1957 sci-fi novel by Isaac Asimov that was adapted into an episode of the TV series "Out of the Unknown": 2 wds. |
| 46% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 46% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 46% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 46% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky with the 2024 novel "Pay Dirt" |
| 45% | COMFORTERS | 10 | The —, 1957 novel by Muriel Spark |
| 45% | SANDCASTLE | 10 | The —, 1957 novel by Iris Murdoch |
| 45% | NEAL | 4 | Science fiction author Stephenson with the upcoming novel "Seveneves" |
| 45% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 45% | ESTATE | 6 | The —, 1969 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 45% | ESTATE | 6 | The -, 1969 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 45% | HIRELING | 8 | The —, 1957 novel by L P Hartley |