| 100% | THELYINGGAME | 12 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set at an all-girls' boarding school (3 wds.) |
| 54% | ONEBYONE | 8 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set in the French Alps (3 wds.) |
| 42% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across about an African-American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |
| 42% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | Novel by 44-Across about an African American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |
| 40% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across set in the pre-Civil War South (3 wds.) |
| 40% | THECIRCLE | 9 | 2013 novel by Dave Eggers set at an extremely powerful tech company (2 wds.) |
| 39% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 1970 novel by 43-Across about an African-American girl in 1940s Ohio (3 wds.) |
| 38% | FORTUNESROCKS | 13 | Novel by 29-Across set at a beach house on the New Hampshire coast (2 wds.) |
| 37% | THESCHOLOMANCE | 14 | Trilogy of novels by 27-Across set in a magic school (2 wds.) |
| 36% | FRIDAYBARNES | 12 | Girl detective who solves mysteries at her boarding school (2 wds.) |
| 35% | GONEBABYGONE | 12 | 1998 novel by 48-Across set in Boston (3 wds.) |
| 35% | MALORY | 6 | "___ Towers," series of novels by Enid Blyton that is set in a girls' boarding school |
| 34% | YEARONE | 7 | 2017 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | COMESUNDOWN | 11 | 2017 bestselling romance novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THEFOURWINDS | 12 | Novel by 29-Across set in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era (3 wds.) |
| 34% | TOMMYLEEJONES | 13 | "The Fugitive" actor who was an All-Ivy football selection at Harvard: 3 wds. |
| 34% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | Novel by 44-Across about an African-American man in 1930s-1960s Michigan (3 wds.) |
| 34% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | Novel by 44-Across about an African American man in 1930s-1960s Michigan (3 wds.) |
| 34% | THEGREATALONE | 13 | 2018 novel by 44-Across set in Alaska after the Vietnam War (3 wds.) |
| 33% | SULFURSPRINGS | 13 | Mystery novel by William Kent Krueger featuring 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | COPPERRIVER | 11 | Mystery novel by William Kent Krueger featuring 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | INVISIBLEMAN | 12 | 1953 National Book Award-winning novel by 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THETORNSKIRT | 12 | Novel by 47-Across about a high schooler who becomes obsessed with a homeless girl (3 wds.) |
| 33% | BYANYOTHERNAME | 14 | 2024 novel by 45-Across about two playwrights living centuries apart (4 wds.) |
| 32% | THEDOLLHOUSE | 12 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's Barbizon Hotel (2 wds.) |
| 32% | THEBLUESTEYE | 12 | 1970 novel by 18-Across: 3 wds. |
| 32% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by 18-Across: 3 wds. |
| 32% | SONGOFSOLOMON | 13 | 1977 novel by 43-Across about an African-American man in 1930s-1960s Michigan (3 wds.) |
| 32% | LEAVINGTIME | 11 | 2014 novel by 45-Across about a daughter investigating her mother's disappearance (2 wds.) |
| 32% | FORCEOFNATURE | 13 | Murder mystery by 43-Across set in the remote Australian bushland (3 wds.) |