| 100% | CANNERYROW | 10 | Nolte movie based on two Steinbeck novels |
| 62% | MOTHERNIGHT | 11 | Nick Nolte movie based on a Kurt Vonnegut novel |
| 52% | EDEN | 4 | "East of ___" (movie based on a John Steinbeck novel) |
| 49% | WARHORSE | 8 | 2011 movie based on a Michael Morpurgo novel |
| 49% | FORRESTGUMP | 11 | 1994 movie based on a Winston Groom novel |
| 49% | MISERY | 6 | 1990 movie based on a Stephen King novel |
| 49% | EMMA | 4 | 2020 movie based on a Jane Austen novel |
| 48% | SEMATARY | 8 | Pet __, 2019 movie based on a Stephen King novel |
| 48% | BABE | 4 | 1995 movie based on the novel "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 48% | VFORVENDETTA | 12 | 2005 movie based on an Alan Moore graphic novel |
| 47% | WILLARD | 7 | 1971 hit movie based on the novel "Ratman's Notebooks" |
| 47% | HIGH | 4 | "___ Fidelity" (John Cusack movie based on a Nick Hornby novel) |
| 47% | SHOPGIRL | 8 | 2005 Steve Martin movie based on a novel he wrote |
| 47% | DUNE | 4 | 1984 sci-fi movie based on a Frank Herbert novel |
| 47% | PERSUASION | 10 | 2022 Netflix movie based on 18-Across's last completed novel |
| 47% | ITENDS | 6 | With 13-Across, 2024 movie based on a Colleen Hoover novel |
| 46% | STARS | 5 | "The Fault in Our ___" (2014 movie based on a young-adult novel) |
| 46% | SUM | 3 | "The ___ of All Fears" (2002 movie based on a Tom Clancy novel) |
| 46% | ATLAS | 5 | "Cloud ___" (Tom Hanks/Halle Berry movie based on a David Mitchell novel) |
| 46% | OLD | 3 | "No Country for ___ Men" (Coen brothers movie based on a Cormac McCarthy novel) |
| 45% | RIDEWITHTHE | 11 | "___ Devil," Tobey Maguire's 1999 movie based on Daniel Woodrell's novel: 3 wds. |
| 45% | THECIDERHOUSE | 13 | "___ Rules," Tobey Maguire's 1999 movie based on John Irving's novel: 3 wds. |
| 44% | FORREST | 7 | "___ Gump," Tom Hanks movie based on a novel by Winston Groom which released in 1994 |
| 44% | WITHTHEKRANKS | 13 | "Christmas ___," a 2004 movie based on a John Grisham novel titled "Skipping Christmas": 3 wds. |
| 43% | GREATGATSBY | 11 | "The ___," Tobey Maguire's (birthday today) 2013 movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel: 2 wds. |
| 42% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on a classic novel) |
| 42% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on an 1847 novel) |
| 41% | LOTR | 4 | Movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien novels, for short |
| 40% | RED | 3 | "The Thin ___ Line," 1998 movie based on James Jones' novel about the WWII battle of Guadalcanal |
| 40% | CLUE | 4 | Movie based on a board game |