| 100% | FELIXSALTEN | 11 | His novel ''Bambi'' was published in 1923 |
| 70% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | His novel ''Ulysses'' was published in 1922 |
| 61% | ROBERTFROST | 11 | His ''Stopping by Woods . . .'' poem was published in 1923 |
| 57% | STAY | 4 | "Nothing Gold Can ___," poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost that was published in 1923 |
| 54% | STOPPING | 8 | "___ by Woods on a Snowy Evening," poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost that was published in 1923 |
| 51% | SPENGLER | 8 | Oswald —, German philosopher whose two-volume work The Decline of the West was published in 1918 and 1923 |
| 50% | SHIRLEY | 7 | Charlotte Bronte's second novel that was published in 1849 |
| 49% | PERSUASION | 10 | Jane Austen novel published posthumously in 1817 whose protagonist is Anne Elliot |
| 48% | OMERTA | 6 | Mario Puzo novel that was posthumously published in 2000 |
| 48% | NUN | 3 | "Requiem for a ___," play by Albert Camus published in 1962 which was adapted from William Faulkner's novel |
| 46% | DEATH | 5 | "A Happy ___," novel by Albert Camus published posthumously in 1971 which recounts his travels in Europe |
| 46% | WILLACATHER | 11 | Her ''My Ántonia'' was published in 1918 |
| 45% | OED | 3 | Its first complete ed. was published in 1928 |
| 45% | HOPI | 4 | Language whose first dictionary was published in 1998 |
| 44% | MCMIII | 6 | "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" was published in this year |
| 44% | OED | 3 | Its first vol., A-Ant, was published in 1884 |
| 44% | DYLAN | 5 | Songwriter Bob whose memoir "Chronicles" was published in 2004 |
| 44% | THOMASMANN | 10 | His Magic Mountain was published |
| 43% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | The first part of his ''Ulysses'' was published in 1918 |
| 42% | TREBEK | 6 | His career is in "Jeopardy!" |
| 42% | LBJ | 3 | His library is in Austin |
| 42% | ADIE | 4 | Kate —, journalist whose autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers was published in 2002 |
| 42% | BORDERERS | 9 | "The ___," sole play written by William Wordsworth that was published in 1842 |
| 42% | READERSDIGEST | 13 | General interest magazine whose first issue was published in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 42% | COPERNICUS | 10 | Polish astronomer whose theory of the solar system was published in 1543 |
| 41% | LENIN | 5 | His tomb is in Red Square |
| 41% | ASHE | 4 | His racket is in the Smithsonian |
| 41% | VOLUMEONE | 9 | "Chronicles: ___," Bob Dylan's memoir that was published in October 2004: 2 wds. |
| 41% | HOME | 4 | "___ Burial," poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost that was published in 1914 |
| 41% | WALL | 4 | "Mending ___," poem by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost that was published in 1914 |