| 100% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 58% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 54% | OMOO | 4 | Book with the chapter "How They Dress in Tahiti" |
| 51% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 49% | BLACKBEAUTY | 11 | Classic novel with a chapter titled "My Breaking In" |
| 49% | ICLAUDIUS | 9 | Novel with the line "My birth occurred in the 744th year after the foundation of Rome by Romulus" |
| 48% | OLDMAJOR | 8 | Pig with the revolutionary speech in Animal Farm |
| 46% | DOOM | 4 | Ada —, owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the 1932 novel of that name by Stella Gibbons |
| 45% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 44% | AFAREWELLTOARMS | 15 | 1929 novel that ends with Frederic Henry walking to his hotel in the rain |
| 44% | RAMA | 4 | "Rendezvous with ___," 1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke that is set in the 2130s |
| 43% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 43% | DRAGON | 6 | "The Girl with the ___ Tattoo," best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson that was originally written in Swedish |
| 43% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 42% | ONCEISNOTENOUGH | 15 | Jacqueline Susann novel, and the problem with some of the answers in this puzzle |
| 42% | GOLDEN | 6 | "The Man with the ___ Gun," twelfth novel of Ian Fleming's James Bond series which was published in 1965 |
| 42% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 42% | CASCA | 5 | Roman soldier in a series of novels by Barry Sadler beginning with 1979's The Eternal Mercenary |
| 42% | ARCO | 4 | With the bow, in music |
| 41% | WALDEN | 6 | Book with "Solitude" and "The Pond in Winter" chapters |
| 41% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 41% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 41% | MATTHEW | 7 | Gospel with the most chapters |
| 41% | MADDINGCROWD | 12 | "Far from the ____," 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy which is about the farming community in Victorian England: 2 wds. |
| 40% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 40% | ITINA | 5 | Rock memoir with the chapters "Nut Bush" and "River Deep" |
| 40% | GAY | 3 | Peterkin —, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island |
| 40% | THINMAN | 7 | Victim in a 1932 mystery novel, with "the" |
| 40% | AGAPE | 5 | With the jaw dropped in wonder |
| 40% | IDLE | 4 | Sit with the engine in neutral |