| 100% | WAITINGTOEXHALE | 15 | 1992 chick-lit best seller set in Phoenix |
| 55% | ELENI | 5 | Best seller set in 1940's Greece |
| 54% | EASTOFEDEN | 10 | 1952 best seller set in California |
| 54% | THEUGLYAMERICAN | 15 | 1958 best seller set in Southeast Asia |
| 54% | TAIPAN | 6 | 1966 best seller set in Hong Kong |
| 53% | CUJO | 4 | 1981 best seller set in Castle Rock, Me. |
| 39% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture set in Iran |
| 39% | COMA | 4 | 1977 best seller set at Boston Memorial Hospital |
| 36% | ROOTS | 5 | 1976 best seller that starts in Gambia |
| 35% | AUGUST | 6 | Faulkner's novel set in the 1930s: Light in __ |
| 35% | OFF | 3 | Switch setting in which the light is not "on" |
| 34% | JAZZ | 4 | 1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem |
| 34% | WOEISI | 6 | Best seller subtitled "The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English" |
| 33% | ROME | 4 | Setting for Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza" |
| 33% | THEPELICANBRIEF | 15 | Chick lit book #1 (1992) |
| 33% | LOADIN | 6 | Installing sets and lighting, in the theater |
| 33% | TAR | 3 | 2022 Best Picture nominee set largely in Berlin |
| 33% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner set in Tehran |
| 33% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner set in Iran |
| 32% | ALBOM | 5 | Mitch who wrote the best seller "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" |
| 32% | KEYGRIP | 7 | Person in charge of lighting & rigging crew on set |
| 32% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner set in 1-Across |
| 32% | GAMESPEOPLEPLAY | 15 | 1964 Berne best seller (and a hint to seven other answers in this puzzle) |
| 31% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Share good fortune, as suggested in four sets of circles |
| 31% | BUD | 3 | ___ Light (the best-selling beer in the US) |
| 31% | EELS | 4 | The Book of ___ (2020 best seller about "the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World") |
| 31% | FREE | 4 | "The World Set ___," novel by H.G. Wells published in 1914 |
| 31% | GIGI | 4 | Best Picture Oscar winner set in Paris |
| 31% | QUOVADIS | 8 | Best-selling novel set in ancient Rome |
| 31% | SYCAMOREROW | 11 | 2013 best seller that's the second novel in Grisham's Jake Brigance series: 2 wds. |