| 100% | BIBLE | 5 | Best-selling book generally not on best-seller lists |
| 48% | GOODNIGHTMOON | 13 | Best-selling Margaret Wise Brown children's book that's on Michelle Obama's "recommended reading" list: 2 wds. |
| 47% | STEPHENKING | 11 | Perennial name on best-seller lists |
| 44% | JUDITHKRANTZ | 12 | Novelist whose "Princess Daisy" spent five weeks on the 1980 New York Times Fiction Best Seller list (2 wds.) |
| 44% | JAMESMICHENER | 13 | Novelist whose "The Covenant" spent nine weeks on the 1980 New York Times Fiction Best Seller list (2 wds.) |
| 44% | HOP | 3 | "___ on Pop," 1963 book by Dr. Seuss that ranked sixteenth on Publisher Weekly's list which is one of the best-selling books for children |
| 43% | INBAD | 5 | Not on good terms |
| 43% | ATODDS | 6 | Not on good terms |
| 43% | ROBERTLUDLUM | 12 | Novelist whose "The Bourne Identity" spent 16 weeks on the 1980 New York Times Fiction Best Seller list (2 wds.) |
| 43% | TOPTEN | 6 | Best seller list: 2 wds. |
| 43% | INBAD | 5 | Not on good terms (with) |
| 43% | THELOSTWORLD | 12 | Michael Crichton novel that spent eight weeks at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 1995 (3 wds.) |
| 42% | WARHORSE | 8 | Morpurgo play based on his best-selling book |
| 42% | WHERETHEWILDTHINGS | 18 | 2009 fantasy film based on a best-selling book |
| 41% | JENNYLAWSON | 11 | 34-Across writer whose new memoir, "Broken (in the best possible way)," debuted on the "New York Times" Best Seller list (2 wds.) |
| 41% | UNINVITED | 9 | Not on the guest list for a party |
| 41% | UNINVITEDPEOPLE | 15 | Those not on the guest list |
| 40% | INTRUDERS | 9 | They're not on the guest list |
| 40% | UNREASONED | 10 | Not based on good sense |
| 40% | ACTUP | 5 | Not be on good behavior |
| 39% | ATODDS | 6 | Not on the best of terms |
| 39% | RENEGE | 6 | Not make good on a promise |
| 38% | UNINVITED | 9 | Not on a party's guest list |
| 38% | EDUCATED | 8 | Best-selling Tara Westover memoir that's on Michelle Obama's "recommended reading" list |
| 38% | THETIPPINGPOINT | 15 | 2000 best seller on social epidemics |
| 38% | HOWSTELLAGOT | 12 | With 32-Across, 1998 Angela Bassett film based on a best-selling book: 3 wds. |
| 37% | ITTAKESAVILLAGE | 15 | Best seller that begins "Children are not rugged individualists" |
| 37% | GSPOT | 5 | 1982 best seller on sexuality, with "The" |
| 37% | THEDAVINCIBARCODE | 17 | Lines on a Dan Brown best seller? |
| 37% | EXITWEST | 8 | Best-selling Mohsin Hamid novel that's on Michelle Obama's "recommended reading" list: 2 wds. |