| 100% | THEWINDSOFWAR | 13 | Herman Wouk novel published in 1971 (4 wds.) |
| 60% | RABBITREDUX | 11 | John Updike novel published in 1971 (2 wds.) |
| 60% | ANGLEOFREPOSE | 13 | Wallace Stegner novel published in 1971 (3 wds.) |
| 46% | URSULAKLEGUIN | 13 | Writer whose second Earthsea novel, "The Tombs of Atuan," was published in 1971 (4 wds.) |
| 45% | ONTHEROAD | 9 | Jack Kerouac novel published in 1957 (3 wds.) |
| 45% | MAURICE | 7 | E M Forster novel published posthumously in 1971 |
| 41% | MANSFIELDPARK | 13 | Jane Austen's novel published in 1814 which is the story of the protagonist Fanny Price: 2 wds. |
| 40% | WINDSOFWAR | 10 | Herman Wouk novel, with "The" |
| 38% | SIDDHARTHA | 10 | Hesse novel published in 1922 |
| 38% | UNCLEOSWALD | 11 | "My ___," Roald Dahl's adult novel published in 1979 about a man discovering the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle: 2 wds. |
| 38% | THEORIENT | 9 | "Murder on ___ Express," Agatha Christie's detective novel published in 1934, which was adapted into a film starring Kenneth Branagh in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CASTLE | 6 | The —, Franz Kafka novel published in 1926 |
| 36% | INCOLDBLOOD | 11 | Truman Capote non-fiction novel published in 1966 |
| 36% | THEREWERENONE | 13 | "And Then ___," Agatha Christie's best selling novel published in 1939 about a group of strangers who arrive as guests on a private island: 3 wds. |
| 36% | MADAMEBOVARY | 12 | Gustave Flaubert novel published in book form in 1857 |
| 35% | INSIDE | 6 | & 21A 1985 Herman Wouk novel featuring the character Peter Quat |
| 35% | TENBIGONES | 10 | Novel in Janet Evanovich's 32-Across series that was published between "To the Nines" and "Eleven on Top" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 18-Across's first novel, published in 1970: 3 wds. |
| 35% | TRILBY | 6 | George Du Maurier novel published in book form in 1895 |
| 35% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine |
| 35% | EMMA | 4 | Jane Austen's novel published in 1815 whose protagonist enjoys matchmaking |
| 34% | WEB | 3 | John Wyndham novel published posthumously in 1979 |
| 34% | THETRIAL | 8 | Franz Kafka novel published posthumously in 1925 |
| 34% | STEPHENHERO | 11 | James Joyce novel published posthumously in 1944 |
| 34% | ISLANDSINTHE | 12 | Ernest Hemingway novel published posthumously in 1970 |
| 34% | THECASTLE | 9 | Franz Kafka novel published posthumously in 1926 |
| 34% | SULA | 4 | Toni Morrison's second novel published in 1973 after "The Bluest Eyes" |