| 100% | ROMANCE | 7 | Category of the Nicholas Sparks novel "The Notebook" |
| 55% | BEST | 4 | "The ___ of Me" (2014 film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel) |
| 54% | BEST | 4 | "The ___ of Me" (James Marsden film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel) |
| 52% | NOTEBOOK | 8 | Nicholas Sparks novel turned movie in 2004: The __ |
| 51% | SPARKS | 6 | Nicholas, author of The Notebook |
| 49% | NOTEBOOK | 8 | The __, novel by Nicholas Sparks turned movie |
| 47% | MONSARRAT | 9 | Author of the novel The Cruel Sea: Nicholas __ |
| 47% | MONSARRAT | 9 | Author of a WWII novel The Cruel Sea: Nicholas __ |
| 45% | SMIKE | 5 | Friend of the title character in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| 44% | MONSARRAT | 9 | Nicholas —, author of novels Castle Garac and The White Rajah |
| 44% | SMIKE | 5 | Close friend of the title character in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| 43% | BRODIE | 6 | Muriel Spark novel: "The Prime of Miss Jean __" |
| 42% | MISS | 4 | "The Prime of ___ Jean Brodie" (Muriel Spark novel) |
| 40% | RIDE | 4 | "The Longest ___" (Nicholas Sparks novel) |
| 40% | DRACO | 5 | Malfoy of the Harry Potter novels |
| 40% | LORD | 4 | "___ of the Flies" (1954 novel) |
| 40% | ACLASS | 6 | Of the first category |
| 39% | CARR | 4 | John Dickson —, author of the 1935 mystery novel The Hollow Man |
| 39% | NATIVE | 6 | The Return of the __, Thomas Hardy novel |
| 39% | ZHIVAGO | 7 | Title character of the 1958 Nobel novel |
| 39% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Wrote one of the Great American Novels |
| 39% | MEMBER | 6 | "The ____ of the Wedding" (McCullers novel) |
| 39% | ILK | 3 | Of the same category (similar) |
| 39% | OMOO | 4 | Novel of the South Seas |
| 39% | TRIS | 4 | Protagonist of the "Divergent" novels |
| 39% | IRAN | 4 | Setting of the Dalia Sofer novel "The Septembers of Shiraz" |
| 39% | BOHEA | 5 | Category of black tea grown in the Wuyi Mountains, China |
| 39% | VALLEY | 6 | __ of Fear, the last of the Sherlock Holmes novels |
| 39% | HGWELLS | 7 | Author of the novel War of the Worlds |
| 38% | OFME | 4 | "The Best ___" (Nicholas Sparks novel) (2 wds.) |