| 100% | AUGUST | 6 | Faulkner's novel set in the 1930s: Light in __ |
| 56% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting of seven fantasy novels by C S Lewis published in the 1950s |
| 56% | HEIDI | 5 | Classic children's novel set in the Swiss Alps |
| 52% | ANNIE | 5 | Musical set in the 1930s |
| 51% | PIMPERNEL | 9 | The Scarlet __; novel set in the French Revolution |
| 51% | BABBITT | 7 | Novel set in the fictional town of Zenith |
| 50% | ROME | 4 | Setting for Broadway's "The Light in the Piazza" |
| 50% | BRAVENEWWORLD | 13 | *Dystopian novel set in the year 2540 |
| 50% | SHANE | 5 | 1949 novel set in the Wyoming Territory |
| 50% | SULA | 4 | Toni Morrison novel set in the Bottom |
| 49% | SAGHARBOR | 9 | Colson Whitehead novel set in the Hamptons (2 wds.) |
| 49% | SCOTTTUROW | 10 | Author of novels set in the fictional Kindle County |
| 49% | PUDDNHEAD | 9 | & 21A 1894 novel by Mark Twain set in the town of Dawson's Landing |
| 48% | SAGHARBOR | 9 | 2009 Colson Whitehead novel set in the Hamptons (2 wds.) |
| 48% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 surrealist novel set in the antebellum South: 3 wds. |
| 47% | SHINING | 7 | Stephen King novel set in haunted hotel, The __ |
| 47% | THEDUSTBOWL | 11 | 2012 documentary by 43-Across that was set in the 1930s: 3 wds. |
| 46% | OFF | 3 | Switch setting in which the light is not "on" |
| 46% | THEADDRESS | 10 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's apartment building The Dakota (2 wds.) |
| 46% | THEGIFT | 7 | Vladimir Nabokov novel written in the 1930s whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 46% | ALGEBRAIST | 10 | The —, 2004 novel by Iain M Banks set in the year 4034 |
| 46% | MANOFWAR | 8 | 2003 novel by Alexander Kent set in the West Indies |
| 46% | LOW | 3 | "When the Moon Is ___" (Nadia Hashimi novel set in Kabul) |
| 45% | EYRE | 4 | "The ___ Affair" (murder mystery set in the universe of a Brontë novel) |
| 45% | THIRDMAN | 8 | The __, Graham Greene novel and film set in Vienna |
| 45% | LOADIN | 6 | Installing sets and lighting, in the theater |
| 45% | DAISYBUCHANAN | 13 | Woman with a botanical name in a classic novel set in the Roaring Twenties (2 wds.) |
| 45% | THEBURGESSBOYS | 14 | Elizabeth Strout novel set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls about two brothers (3 wds.) |
| 45% | GOLDEN | 6 | "The ___ Compass," fantasy novel by Philip Pullman that is set in the Arctic |