| 100% | THEROAD | 7 | 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| 81% | ROAD | 4 | "The ___," 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 57% | THEROAD | 7 | 2006 novel for which Cormac McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize |
| 56% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 54% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 54% | THEREMAINSOF | 12 | & 15A 1989 Booker-McConnell Prize for Fiction-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 51% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 51% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 48% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 47% | ANGLEOF | 7 | & 21A 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| 47% | THECOLOR | 8 | & 17A 1982 novel by Alice Walker; 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| 47% | PASSENGER | 9 | "The ___," 2022 novel by Cormac McCarthy that has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal |
| 46% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 46% | OFA | 3 | "Half ___ Yellow Sun," novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 45% | COUNTRY | 7 | "No ___ for Old Men," 2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy that was adapted into a 2007 crime film |
| 45% | THESHIPPING | 11 | & 22D E Annie Proulx novel that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 45% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 44% | COLSONWHITEHEAD | 15 | He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 44% | UPTON | 5 | Sinclair who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 44% | COPPERHEAD | 10 | "Demon ___," Barbara Kingsolver novel that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 44% | POSTCARDS | 9 | Novel by 29-Across that won the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction |
| 43% | TARTT | 5 | Author who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 43% | COLSON | 6 | Whitehead whose novel “The Nickel Boys” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in May, 2020 |
| 43% | THEGOOD | 7 | & 19A 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year |
| 43% | RAILROAD | 8 | "The Underground ___," Colson Whitehead novel that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |