| 100% | BALLARD | 7 | J. G. __ wrote WWII novel Empire of the Sun |
| 49% | BALLARD | 7 | J G —, author of novels Crash and The Drowned World |
| 44% | JGBALLARD | 9 | Crash and Empire of the Sun author |
| 43% | ASON | 4 | "___ of the Sun" (Jack London novel) |
| 37% | PYM | 3 | Title character of the only novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote |
| 37% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Wrote one of the Great American Novels |
| 37% | BARRIE | 6 | J M —, author of 1902 novel The Little White Bird |
| 36% | JOHNUPDIKE | 10 | Author of the Rabbit series who wrote the 1988 novel "S.": 2 wds. |
| 36% | THESIEGEOF | 10 | & 10D J G Farrell novel that won the 1973 Booker Prize for Fiction |
| 36% | MINDS | 5 | "Splinter of the ___ Eye," Star Wars Legends novel written by Alan Dean Foster |
| 36% | SALINGER | 8 | J D —, author of 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye |
| 36% | PHANTOM | 7 | The__ of the Opera, novel written by Gaston Leroux |
| 36% | SYZYGY | 6 | Alignment of the sun, earth and moon, e.g. |
| 36% | SUEGRAFTON | 10 | Author of the Kinsey Millhone mysteries who wrote the 2015 novel "X": 2 wds. |
| 36% | SOLAR | 5 | Of the sun |
| 36% | ICLZZZZUS | 9 | Classic 1934 novel written in the form of an autobiography |
| 36% | CHOLERA | 7 | "Love in the Time of ___," novel by Gabriel G. Marquez |
| 35% | ANTS | 4 | "The Empire of the ___" (H.G. Wells short story) |
| 35% | RINGS | 5 | "Lord of the ___," 2000 board game based on the eponymous J. R. R. Tolkien novel |
| 35% | LEECHILD | 8 | Pen name of the British novelist who writes the Jack Reacher novel series (2 wds.) |
| 35% | LETHAL | 6 | J.K. Rowling's 2018 novel "___ White", written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith |
| 35% | HEIR | 4 | "___ to the Empire," Star Wars Legends novel written by Timothy Zahn |
| 35% | DAN | 3 | American author ___ Brown who wrote the Robert Langdon series of novels |
| 35% | TED | 3 | Novelist Bell who writes the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels |
| 35% | HONOUR | 6 | Order of the British Empire, e.g. |
| 35% | SOPHIEKINSELLA | 14 | Author of the "Shopaholic" novels who also wrote stand-alone novels as Madeleine Wickham: 2 wds. |
| 35% | SALINGER | 8 | J.D. ___, famous author who wrote only one novel, "The Catcher in the Rye" |
| 35% | ROWLING | 7 | J.K. ___, creator of "Harry Potter" who also wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith |
| 34% | DONLEAVY | 8 | J P —, author of novels A Fairy Tale of New York and The Onion Eaters |