| 100% | MINDED | 6 | Absent-__ professor, eccentric literary character |
| 45% | LORNA | 5 | Literary character doone |
| 42% | POIROT | 6 | Herculean literary character? |
| 42% | MERLIN | 6 | Literary character fathered by an incubus |
| 42% | HELEN | 5 | Literary character with a powerful face |
| 42% | TINMAN | 6 | Literary character (1900) born Nick Chopper |
| 42% | WONKA | 5 | Literary character with a chocolate factory |
| 41% | AHAB | 4 | One-legged literary character |
| 41% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character whose first word is "'Sblood" |
| 41% | SAMSA | 5 | Literary character who transforms into an insect |
| 40% | HOLMES | 6 | #2 in literary character portrayals |
| 40% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character on whom Captain Hook is based |
| 40% | EEYORE | 6 | Literary character who lives in the Gloomy Place |
| 40% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character with a leg made of whalebone |
| 40% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character who cries "I am madness maddened!" |
| 40% | NEMO | 4 | Literary character whose name translates to "no one" |
| 40% | SAMSA | 5 | Literary character who's transformed into an Ungeziefer |
| 39% | SAMSPADE | 8 | 1929 literary character in San Francisco |
| 39% | NED | 3 | Absent-Minded Professor ___ Brainard |
| 39% | HUMBERT | 7 | Literary character with the same first and last name |
| 39% | ZORRO | 5 | Literary character who debuted in "The Curse of Capistrano" |
| 39% | AHAB | 4 | Literary character likened to a "mute, maned sea-lion" |
| 39% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "Cassio's a proper man" |
| 39% | EMMA | 4 | Literary character on whom Cher from Clueless is based |
| 39% | AUNTEM | 6 | Literary character whose house is uprooted by a tornado |
| 39% | LONGJOHNS | 9 | Literary character with an eponymous chain of seafood restaurants |
| 38% | EBENEZER | 8 | First name of the literary character, Scrooge |
| 38% | DONQ | 4 | Rum brand named after a literary character |
| 38% | KURTZ | 5 | Literary character whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" |
| 38% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy" |