| 100% | LASTDON | 7 | Mario Puzo novel, with "The" |
| 95% | LASTDON | 7 | 1996 Mario Puzo novel, with "The" |
| 95% | LASTDON | 7 | 1996 Mario Puzo novel, with “The” |
| 65% | OMERTA | 6 | Mario Puzo novel published posthumously |
| 64% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 64% | MOE | 3 | ___ Greene, character in Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" |
| 63% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 62% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 61% | OMERTA | 6 | Mario Puzo novel that was posthumously published in 2000 |
| 61% | THEDON | 6 | Lead character in a Mario Puzo novel |
| 61% | MAFIA | 5 | Criminal group in many Mario Puzo novels |
| 61% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 60% | GODFATHER | 9 | Mario Puzo's mafia book, The __ |
| 60% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 60% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 59% | OLDMANANDTHESEA | 15 | 1952 novel, with The |
| 59% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 58% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 58% | GODFATHER | 9 | The 1972 crime film based on Mario Puzo's novel |
| 58% | GODFATHER | 9 | The __, crime drama based on Mario Puzo's novel |
| 58% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 57% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 57% | GODFATHER | 9 | Blockbuster based on Mario Puzo's novel |
| 57% | NEVERLETMEGO | 12 | 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel with the line “Carers aren’t machines” |
| 56% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 56% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 55% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 55% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky with the 2024 novel "Pay Dirt" |
| 54% | NEAL | 4 | Science fiction author Stephenson with the upcoming novel "Seveneves" |
| 54% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |