| 100% | THEGREATALONE | 13 | 2018 novel by 44-Across set in Alaska after the Vietnam War (3 wds.) |
| 54% | THENIGHTINGALE | 14 | 2015 novel by 44-Across set in France during World War II (2 wds.) |
| 52% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across set in the pre-Civil War South (3 wds.) |
| 48% | ONEBYONE | 8 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set in the French Alps (3 wds.) |
| 48% | THEFOURWINDS | 12 | Novel by 29-Across set in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era (3 wds.) |
| 45% | THEPARADE | 9 | 2019 novel by Dave Eggers set in an unnamed country rebuilding after a civil war (2 wds.) |
| 44% | THEADDRESS | 10 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's apartment building The Dakota (2 wds.) |
| 43% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across about an African-American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |
| 43% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across about an African American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |
| 43% | SHADOWTYRANTS | 13 | 2018 novel in the Oregon Files series by 18-Across and 39-Across (2 wds.) |
| 42% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | Novel by 44-Across about an African-American man in 1930s-1960s Michigan (3 wds.) |
| 42% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | Novel by 44-Across about an African American man in 1930s-1960s Michigan (3 wds.) |
| 42% | GONEBABYGONE | 12 | 1998 novel by 48-Across set in Boston (3 wds.) |
| 41% | THELOSTSYMBOL | 13 | Thriller written by Dan Brown set in Washington D.C. after the events of "The Da Vinci Code": 3 wds. |
| 41% | THEGOLDBERGS | 12 | ABC sitcom set in the 1980s narrated by 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 39% | THELYINGWOODS | 13 | 2018 mystery by 44-Across about a boy who works in an orchard in rural Louisiana (3 wds.) |
| 39% | THEDOLLHOUSE | 12 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's Barbizon Hotel (2 wds.) |
| 38% | SMALLMERCIES | 12 | 2023 novel by 48-Across set in Boston (2 wds.) |
| 38% | JAMESBDONOVAN | 13 | American Cold War lawyer who brokered the spy swap dramatized in 44-Across, played by Tom Hanks (3 wds.) |
| 38% | THELOSTWORLD | 12 | Novel by Michael Crichton on which the sequel to 26a which was released in 1997 was based: 3 wds. |
| 38% | UTOPIAAVENUE | 12 | Name of the fictional 44-Across in the 2020 novel of the same name by 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 37% | BASKETCASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that highlights a song by the same name cowritten with Warren Zevon: 2 wds. |
| 37% | PETERRABBIT | 11 | Animated character voiced by 44-Across in a 2018 film (2 wds.) |
| 37% | THEWITCHELM | 11 | 2018 novel by Tana French whose central mystery involves a skull found in a tree (3 wds.) |
| 37% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 37% | THESCHOLOMANCE | 14 | Trilogy of novels by 27-Across set in a magic school (2 wds.) |
| 37% | READYPLAYERONE | 14 | Science fiction novel by Ernest Cline that released in 2011 and became a NYT Bestseller again in 2018: 3 wds. |
| 37% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
| 37% | FORTUNESROCKS | 13 | Novel by 29-Across set at a beach house on the New Hampshire coast (2 wds.) |
| 36% | GONEBABYGONE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across made into a film directed by Ben Affleck (3 wds.) |