| 100% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across set in the pre-Civil War South (3 wds.) |
| 52% | ONEBYONE | 8 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set in the French Alps (3 wds.) |
| 47% | THEGREATALONE | 13 | 2018 novel by 44-Across set in Alaska after the Vietnam War (3 wds.) |
| 47% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 surrealist novel set in the antebellum South: 3 wds. |
| 46% | THEPARADE | 9 | 2019 novel by Dave Eggers set in an unnamed country rebuilding after a civil war (2 wds.) |
| 44% | YEARONE | 7 | 2017 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 44% | KINGOFSCARS | 11 | 2019 fantasy novel by 30-Across about a young ruler with dark powers trying to rebuild his country after a civil war (3 wds.) |
| 42% | THEFOURWINDS | 12 | Novel by 29-Across set in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era (3 wds.) |
| 40% | THEADDRESS | 10 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's apartment building The Dakota (2 wds.) |
| 39% | ASKAGAINYES | 11 | Bestselling novel by 30-Across selected as the "The Tonight Show" Summer Reads choice for 2019 (3 wds.) |
| 38% | ASINGLETHREAD | 13 | 2019 novel by 34-Across about the women who embroidered the kneelers for Winchester Cathedral in the 1930s (3 wds.) |
| 37% | PRETTYBIRDS | 11 | Bestselling novel by 29-Across/30-Across set in 1990s Sarajevo (2 wds.) |
| 37% | GONEBABYGONE | 12 | 1998 novel by 48-Across set in Boston (3 wds.) |
| 36% | THEDUTCHHOUSE | 13 | 2019 bestselling novel by 28-Across (3 wds.) |
| 36% | THEFAMILIAR | 11 | 2024 historical fantasy novel by 30-Across featuring two people with magical powers in the Spanish Golden Age (2 wds.) |
| 36% | THELYINGGAME | 12 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set at an all-girls' boarding school (3 wds.) |
| 35% | GOLDEN | 6 | "The ___ Compass," fantasy novel by Philip Pullman that is set in the Arctic |
| 35% | FARFROMHEAVEN | 13 | Family drama starring 45-Across set in the 1950s (3 wds.) |
| 35% | SALMONPCHASE | 12 | Civil War treasury secretary pictured on the former $10,000 bill, discontinued in 1969: 3 wds. |
| 35% | THELAKEHOUSE | 12 | 2015 bestseller set in an abandoned estate by the water: 3 wds. |
| 35% | THEHORNETSNEST | 14 | 2003 novel by 46-Across about the Revolutionary War (3 wds.) |
| 35% | THENIGHTINGALE | 14 | 2015 novel by 44-Across set in France during World War II (2 wds.) |
| 35% | GAMEOFTHRONES | 13 | Fantasy drama set in the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos which will air its final season this year (2019): 3 wds. |
| 35% | COMESUNDOWN | 11 | 2017 bestselling romance novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THEROGUECREW | 12 | Last book in the "Redwall" series of children's fantasy novels by 50-Across (3 wds.) |
| 34% | TOLLS | 5 | "For Whom the Bell ___," novel by Ernest Hemingway, set in the Spanish Civil War and is regarded as one of his best works |
| 34% | RULEOFWOLVES | 12 | Novel by 40-Across that won the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fantasy (3 wds.) |
| 34% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting of seven fantasy novels by C S Lewis published in the 1950s |
| 34% | SMALLMERCIES | 12 | 2023 novel by 48-Across set in Boston (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THEDOLLHOUSE | 12 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's Barbizon Hotel (2 wds.) |