| 100% | CRIMEAND | 8 | Fyodor Dostoevsky novel whose protagonist is Rodion Raskolnikov |
| 45% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 1970 Toni Morrison novel whose protagonist is Pecola Breedlove |
| 45% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel whose protagonist is Macon (Milkman) Dead III |
| 44% | RYE | 3 | "The Catcher in the ___," novel whose protagonist is Holden Caulfield |
| 38% | MALTESE | 7 | “The ___ Falcon” (novel whose protagonist is the detective Sam Spade) |
| 35% | THEGIFT | 7 | Vladimir Nabokov novel written in the 1930s whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 35% | BOOKOFDAVE | 10 | The —, 2006 Will Self novel whose protagonist is a London cab driver |
| 34% | DIARY | 5 | 2003 novel by Chuck Palahniuk whose protagonist is Misty Wilmot |
| 34% | GOINGPOSTAL | 11 | 2004 novel by Terry Pratchett whose protagonist is Moist von Lipwig |
| 33% | TENET | 5 | Christopher Nolan movie whose protagonist is named Protagonist |
| 33% | HALO | 4 | Video game series whose protagonist is Master Chief |
| 33% | ITHEJURY | 8 | 1947 debut novel by Mickey Spillane whose protagonist is Mike Hammer |
| 33% | MENLIKEGODS | 11 | 1923 novel by H G Wells whose protagonist is Mr Barnstaple |
| 32% | GIFT | 4 | The —, Vladimir Nabokov novel originally published in serial form in 1938 whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 32% | DESPAIR | 7 | 1936 Vladimir Nabokov book whose protagonist is Hermann Karlovich |
| 32% | TOLLGATE | 8 | The —, 1954 novel by Georgette Heyer novel whose protagonist is Captain John Staple |
| 31% | THEHAJ | 6 | Leon Uris novel whose protagonist Ibrahim completed his pilgrimage to Mecca |
| 31% | REDPONY | 7 | The —, 1937 novella by John Steinbeck whose protagonist is Jody Tiflin |
| 31% | GONEGIRL | 8 | Novel whose title character is the missing Amy Dunne |
| 31% | INTRODUCING | 11 | & 16D 1938 novel by John Creasey whose protagonist is the Honourable Richard Rollison |
| 31% | PERSUASION | 10 | Jane Austen novel published posthumously in 1817 whose protagonist is Anne Elliot |
| 31% | THEBEANTREES | 12 | Barbara Kingsolver novel whose protagonist grew up in rural Kentucky (3 wds.) |
| 31% | JANEEYRE | 8 | 1847 novel whose protagonist describes herself as “poor, obscure, plain, and little” |
| 31% | LIARS | 5 | Sarah Manguso novel whose protagonist “floated face down in housewifery” (July, 2024) |
| 31% | BOLD | 4 | "The ___ Type," TV series starring Katie Stevens whose protagonist is a journalist |
| 31% | ONTHEROAD | 9 | Novel whose character Carlo Marx was modelled on Allen Ginsberg |
| 30% | LOLITA | 6 | Nabokov novel whose unreliable narrator is Humbert Humbert |
| 30% | TOLLGATE | 8 | The —, 1954 novel by Georgette Heyer novel whose protagonist is Captain John Staple (4-4) |