| 100% | FORTUNESROCKS | 13 | Novel by 29-Across set at a beach house on the New Hampshire coast (2 wds.) |
| 43% | THEADDRESS | 10 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's apartment building The Dakota (2 wds.) |
| 40% | THEFOURWINDS | 12 | Novel by 29-Across set in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era (3 wds.) |
| 39% | THEPILOTSWIFE | 13 | Novel by 29-Across about the aftermath of a plane crash (3 wds.) |
| 38% | AMERICANRUST | 12 | Novel by 31-Across set in a declining Pennsylvania steel town (2 wds.) |
| 38% | THEDOLLHOUSE | 12 | Novel by 39-Across set in New York City's Barbizon Hotel (2 wds.) |
| 37% | AMERICANWOMAN | 13 | Novel by 52-Across based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst (2 wds.) |
| 37% | THESCHOLOMANCE | 14 | Trilogy of novels by 27-Across set in a magic school (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel by 43-Across about a love affair that begins in the Caribbean (2 wds.) |
| 36% | PRETTYBIRDS | 11 | Bestselling novel by 29-Across/30-Across set in 1990s Sarajevo (2 wds.) |
| 35% | BASKETCASE | 10 | Novel by 44-Across that highlights a song by the same name cowritten with Warren Zevon: 2 wds. |
| 35% | WAYSIDESCHOOL | 13 | Setting for a series of novels by 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 35% | WINTERGARDEN | 12 | Novel by 29-Across that weaves a Russian fairy tale with a family's history (2 wds.) |
| 34% | ONEBYONE | 8 | Mystery novel by 45-Across set in the French Alps (3 wds.) |
| 34% | TIGEREYES | 9 | Young adult novel by 38-Across about a girl coping with the death of her father (2 wds.) |
| 34% | TIMESSQUARE | 11 | New York setting for a "Rockin'" 35-Across celebration co-hosted by 27-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | THELITTLELIAR | 13 | Novel by 43-Across about a boy who always tells the truth (3 wds.) |
| 34% | SALADFORK | 9 | Utensil on the far left in a standard place setting: 2 wds. |
| 34% | THEGREATALONE | 13 | 2018 novel by 44-Across set in Alaska after the Vietnam War (3 wds.) |
| 33% | BEAUTIFULDAY | 12 | Bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand featuring a summer wedding on Nantucket (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SILASMARNER | 11 | Third novel by George Eliot (birthday yesterday) "___: The Weaver of Raveloe" which is a simple tale of a linen weaver: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ALONG | 5 | "___ Way Down," 2005 novel by Nick Hornby which begins on New Year's eve: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LETSSTART | 9 | "___ the New Year Right," a song about New Year's by Bing Crosby: 2 wds. |
| 33% | THECIRCLE | 9 | 2013 novel by Dave Eggers set at an extremely powerful tech company (2 wds.) |
| 33% | JAMESBROWN | 10 | Subject of the new biopic "Get On Up," played by Chadwick Boseman: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BEAUTIFULDAY | 12 | 2013 bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand featuring a summer wedding on Nantucket (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ETHANFROME | 10 | 1911 novel by 39-Across adapted as a film starring Liam Neeson as the title farmer in an unhappy marriage (2 wds.) |
| 33% | FAIRLADY | 8 | Musical based on a novel by George Bernard Shaw, "My ___" was the longest-running Broadway show between 1956 - 1962: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BOOKLOVERS | 10 | 2022 romance novel by 44-Across about a literary agent and an editor who meet cute while on vacation (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THEWATERDANCER | 14 | 2019 bestselling fantasy novel by 45-Across set in the pre-Civil War South (3 wds.) |