| 100% | TERMINALMAN | 11 | Michael Crichton novel, with "The" |
| 70% | SPHERE | 6 | Michael Crichton sci-fi novel about a round spaceship found on the ocean floor |
| 69% | ANDROMEDASTRAIN | 15 | Michael Crichton best seller, with "The" |
| 67% | THELOSTWORLD | 12 | Michael Crichton novel that spent eight weeks at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list in 1995 (3 wds.) |
| 65% | PREY | 4 | Crichton novel with evil nanorobots |
| 65% | CONGO | 5 | Crichton novel with diamond hunting |
| 64% | CONGO | 5 | Michael Crichton novel about diamond-hunting |
| 64% | AIRFRAME | 8 | 1996 Michael Crichton novel |
| 64% | CONGO | 5 | 1980 Michael Crichton novel |
| 64% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 63% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 62% | JURASSIC | 8 | Park in a Michael Crichton novel |
| 62% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 61% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 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% | HOURS | 5 | Michael Cunningham novel made into a film starring Nicole Kidman, with "The" |
| 58% | THELOSTWORLD | 12 | Novel by Michael Crichton on which the sequel to 26a which was released in 1997 was based: 3 wds. |
| 58% | NEXT | 4 | Michael Crichton's 2006 satirical techno-thriller novel |
| 58% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 57% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 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" |
| 55% | TRUTH | 5 | The —, 2012 novel by Michael Palin |