| 100% | QUOVADIS | 8 | Henryk Sienkiewicz novel first published in book form in 1896 |
| 64% | KIM | 3 | Rudyard Kipling novel first published in book form in 1901 |
| 64% | WATCHANDWARD | 12 | Henry James novel first published in book form in 1878 |
| 59% | SHE | 3 | H Rider Haggard novel subtitled A History of Adventure first published in book form in 1887 |
| 56% | ASTUDYIN | 8 | & 16D First of four Sherlock Holmes novels by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in book form in 1888 |
| 52% | DOUBLE | 6 | & 24A James M Cain novella first published in book form in 1943 |
| 52% | LUCKOF | 6 | & 6D The —, William Thackeray novel first published in serial form in 1844 |
| 51% | MADAMEBOVARY | 12 | Gustave Flaubert novel published in book form in 1857 |
| 51% | TRILBY | 6 | George Du Maurier novel published in book form in 1895 |
| 49% | THESPOILS | 9 | 1897 Henry James novel first published in serial form as The Old Things |
| 49% | LITTLEDORRIT | 12 | Charles Dickens novel published in book form in 1857 featuring the character Arthur Clennam |
| 45% | CANYOU | 6 | & 10D First of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope published in serial form in 1864 and 1865 |
| 44% | SALLY | 5 | "The Adventures of ___," novel by P.G. Wodehouse first published as a book in 1922 |
| 43% | FRANKENSTEIN | 12 | Novel first published in 1818 |
| 41% | ELMERGANTRY | 11 | Sinclair Lewis novel first published in 1927 |
| 41% | AYALASANGEL | 11 | Anthony Trollope novel first published in 1881 |
| 41% | NAUSEA | 6 | Jean-Paul Sartre novel first published in 1938 |
| 40% | MALONEDIES | 10 | Samuel Beckett novel first published in Paris in 1951 |
| 40% | CANCERWARD | 10 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn novel first published in English in 1968 |
| 39% | UNEASY | 6 | P G Wodehouse novel first published in the US in 1916 featuring the character Ira Nutcombe |
| 38% | BRAVE | 5 | Dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932 |
| 38% | VATHEK | 6 | Gothic novel by William Beckford first published in 1786 |
| 38% | GIFT | 4 | The —, Vladimir Nabokov novel originally published in serial form in 1938 whose central character is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev |
| 38% | ALLFOR | 6 | Start of a motto first published in an 1844 book |
| 38% | THEPURSUED | 10 | 1935 novel by C S Forester first published in 2011 |