| 80% | HEAT | 4 | & 8A Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1975 Booker Prize-winning novel |
| 60% | THEOLDDEVILS | 12 | 1986 Booker Prize winning novel by Kingsley Amis |
| 51% | LAST | 4 | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| 51% | LASTORDERS | 10 | 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| 51% | PADDY | 5 | 1993 Booker Prize-winning novel by Roddy Doyle |
| 51% | THEBLIND | 8 | & 14D 2000 Booker Prize-winning novel by Margaret Atwood |
| 51% | LAST | 4 | & 14A 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift |
| 49% | EVENING | 7 | "The Discomfort of ___," novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld which won the International Booker Prize 2020 |
| 42% | BEWILDERMENT | 12 | Novel by 30-Across shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize |
| 42% | OFTHEDAY | 8 | "The Remains ___," 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (birthday today) for which he won the Booker Prize and which was also adapted into a film: 3 wds. |
| 41% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 41% | ATONEMENT | 9 | Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 48-Across adapted as a 2007 film starring Saoirse Ronan |
| 41% | TYLL | 4 | Novel by Daniel Kehlmann which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 |
| 41% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 41% | CLOUDATLAS | 10 | 2004 novel by David Mitchell shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize |
| 41% | SNOWDROPS | 9 | Debut novel by A D Miller; 2011 Man Booker Prize nominee |
| 40% | HOTELDULAC | 10 | 1984 Booker-McConnell Prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner |
| 40% | AMERICANAH | 10 | Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award |
| 40% | THENICEAND | 10 | & 14D 1968 novel by Iris Murdoch nominated for the 1969 Booker Prize |
| 40% | ASBRAVEASYOU | 12 | 2016 novel by 30-Across that won the Kirkus Prize: 4 wds. |
| 40% | THEWHITETIGER | 13 | Booker Prize-winning début novel for Aravind Adiga |
| 40% | ONCHESILBEACH | 13 | Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 48-Across adapted as a 2017 film starring Saoirse Ronan (3 wds.) |
| 39% | ORFEO | 5 | Novel by Richard Powers which was on the longlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize |
| 39% | CLOUD | 5 | & 25A 2004 novel by David Mitchell short-listed for the Man Booker Prize |
| 39% | CLOUD | 5 | & 4A 2004 novel by David Mitchell short-listed for the Man Booker Prize |