| 100% | CLOUDCUCKOOLAND | 15 | Anthony Doerr novel whose title comes from an Aristophanes play |
| 49% | THESUNALSORISES | 15 | Novel whose title comes from Ecclesiastes |
| 46% | THINGSFALLAPART | 15 | Achebe novel whose title comes from a Yeats poem |
| 46% | STRAITISTHEGATE | 15 | André Gide novel whose title comes from Matthew 7:14 |
| 42% | CHI | 3 | "The ___" (Showtime drama whose title comes from the nickname for an Illinois city) |
| 39% | ARAISININTHESUN | 15 | *Lorraine Hansberry play whose title comes from a Langston Hughes poem |
| 37% | BRAVENEWWORLD | 13 | Dystopian classic whose title comes from "The Tempest" |
| 36% | OMG | 3 | 2010 #1 hit for Usher whose title comes from chatspeak |
| 35% | OMG | 3 | 2010 #1 hit for Usher whose title comes from a texting abbreviation |
| 35% | THEFIRENEXTTIME | 15 | James Baldwin book whose title comes from "Mary Don't You Weep" |
| 34% | AINTIAWOMAN | 11 | Bell hooks work whose title comes from a line often attributed to Sojourner Truth |
| 34% | EREWHON | 7 | 1872 utopian novel whose title is an anagram of NOWHERE |
| 34% | KAYAKS | 6 | Boats whose name comes from an Inuktitut word |
| 33% | GAZETTE | 7 | Publication whose name comes from an old Venetian coin |
| 32% | OTTAWA | 6 | Capital whose name comes from an Algonquin word for "to trade" |
| 32% | MONK | 4 | Title whose name comes from the Greek for "alone" |
| 32% | THEWOMANINME | 12 | 2023 memoir by 31-Across whose title comes from the lyrics of one of her hit songs (4 wds.) |
| 31% | STAN | 4 | Word meaning "superfan" that comes from the title of an Eminem song |
| 31% | ASICS | 5 | Shoe brand whose name comes from an acronym for a Latin phrase |
| 31% | BETWEENTHE | 10 | With 35-Across, National Book Award-winning autobiography by 45-Across whose title comes from a Richard Wright poem (2 wds.) |
| 31% | RITAMORENO | 10 | EGOT winner whose Emmy came from an appearance on “The Muppet Show” |
| 31% | PARISTROUT | 10 | Pete Dexter novel whose title character is an unrepentant murderer |
| 31% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Willa Cather novel whose title ends with an exclamation point |
| 30% | RUR | 3 | Classic play whose title is an abbreviation |
| 30% | ABBOT | 5 | Religious title whose name comes from the Hebrew for "father" |
| 29% | THINGSFALLAPART | 15 | 1958 novel that takes its title from Yeats’s “The Second Coming” |
| 28% | PORTLAND | 8 | Top 10 Drake song whose title is the same as an Oregon city, from his 2017 playlist "More Life" |
| 28% | OSCAR | 5 | Announcement that comes from an envelope |
| 28% | OMOO | 4 | Classic novel whose title means "rover" |
| 28% | OMOO | 4 | Classic novel whose title means "wanderer" |