| 100% | THESEARCHER | 11 | 2020 novel by Tana French about a retired detective who begins investigating an old mystery in rural Ireland (2 wds.) |
| 36% | LASTSONG | 8 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a 17 year old teen who is sent to stay with her father in the summer, "The ___": 2 wds. |
| 34% | THEWITCHELM | 11 | 2018 novel by Tana French whose central mystery involves a skull found in a tree (3 wds.) |
| 33% | TRUEBELIEVER | 12 | Novel by Nicholas Sparks about a science journalist who falls in love with a girl in Boone Creek: 2 wds. |
| 31% | THELYINGWOODS | 13 | 2018 mystery by 44-Across about a boy who works in an orchard in rural Louisiana (3 wds.) |
| 31% | TIMETRAVELERS | 13 | "The ___ Wife," bestselling debut novel by Audrey Niffenegger published in 2003 about a man who moves through time and his wife: 2 wds. |
| 29% | THESOUTH | 8 | 1990 novel by 38-Across about an Irish woman who moves to Barcelona in the 1950s (2 wds.) |
| 29% | BROOKLYN | 8 | 2009 novel by 38-Across about an Irish woman who moves to New York in the 1950s (2 wds.) |
| 29% | BOOKLOVERS | 10 | 2022 romance novel by 44-Across about a literary agent and an editor who meet cute while on vacation (2 wds.) |
| 28% | LUSTER | 6 | Début novel by Raven Leilani, about a young Black woman in an interracial, intergenerational relationship (August, 2020) |
| 28% | TRIXIEBELDEN | 12 | Fictional young female detective who first appeared in a 1948 book by Julie Campbell Tatham: 2 wds. |
| 28% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel by 43-Across about a love affair that begins in the Caribbean (2 wds.) |
| 27% | DUBLINMURDERS | 13 | BBC/Starz crime series set in Ireland based on novels by Tana French (2 wds.) |
| 27% | WOMENTALKING | 12 | Novel by 36-Across about an isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia that was adapted by 17-Across into a film starring Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, and Rooney Mara (2 wds.) |
| 27% | CILKASJOURNEY | 13 | Novel by 15-Across about a woman who is sent to Siberia after surviving Auschwitz (2 wds.) |
| 26% | LEAVINGTIME | 11 | 2014 novel by 45-Across about a daughter investigating her mother's disappearance (2 wds.) |
| 26% | MENATALIE | 9 | 1969 movie about a woman who falls in love with an aspiring painter in Greenwich Village that marked Al Pacino's debut: 2 wds. |
| 26% | LANDLINE | 8 | Science-fiction novel by 29-Across about a woman who connects with a younger version of her husband on an old rotary phone |
| 26% | THEPARADE | 9 | 2019 novel by Dave Eggers set in an unnamed country rebuilding after a civil war (2 wds.) |
| 26% | NIGHTSCHOOL | 11 | 2016 novel by Lee Child in which Jack Reacher joins a mission to find a soldier who's cut a deal with a terrorist: 2 wds. |
| 26% | ANXIOUSPEOPLE | 13 | 2020 best-selling novel about a group held hostage by a bank robber: 2 wds. |
| 26% | WORTHDYINGFOR | 13 | 2010 novel by Lee Child about Jack Reacher meets the Duncans and solves an old case of a missing child: 3 wds. |
| 26% | YOUNGJANEYOUNG | 14 | Novel by 44-Across about a political intern who changes her identity when an affair with her boss becomes public (3 wds.) |
| 26% | EDIBLEWOMAN | 11 | "The ___," 1969 novel by Margaret Atwood about a young woman named Marian who is a market researcher: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___": 2 wds. |
| 25% | ASHOE | 5 | "There was an old woman who lived in ___ ...": 2 wds. |
| 25% | THELITTLELIAR | 13 | Novel by 43-Across about a boy who always tells the truth (3 wds.) |
| 25% | RUSHINGWATERS | 13 | 2016 book by Danielle Steel about six people who come together during a Hurricane in New York City: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ELEANORRIGBY | 12 | Beatles song about a woman who "lives in a dream": 2 wds. |
| 25% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across about an African-American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |