| 100% | UNICORN | 7 | Peter S. Beagle wrote a novel about the last one |
| 39% | PLAGUE | 6 | Disease that Daniel Defoe wrote a novel about |
| 38% | MOHICANS | 8 | Fenimore Cooper novel about the last of this tribe |
| 38% | COLDMOUNTAIN | 12 | One of the best-selling historical novels of the 90s written by Charles Frazier about a soldier's journey back home during the Civil war: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DRUNKONLOVE | 11 | Jasmine Guillory novel about a Napa Valley winery co-owner who has a one-night stand with the winery's newest hire, featuring a North Carolina university |
| 38% | AMILLIONJUNES | 13 | Emily Henry novel about a young woman who finds a connection with the son of her family's enemy when he returns home one summer (3 wds.) |
| 38% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 Pulitzer-winning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family's home |
| 37% | ANNEFRANK | 9 | Wrote a diary about the time she spent hiding |
| 37% | IVAN | 4 | The One and Only ___ (children's book about a gorilla) |
| 36% | PREVIOUS | 8 | The last one, as a movie scene or a classroom lecture |
| 36% | CAVALIER | 8 | The last __, A. Dumas' unfinished novel, 1869 |
| 36% | BENITOMUSSOLINI | 15 | World leader who wrote a novel, "The Cardinal's Mistress" |
| 36% | EMPEROR | 7 | The Last __, movie about a monarch of China |
| 35% | BFG | 3 | "The ___," children's novel written by Roald Dahl in 1982 about a young girl named Sophie who meets a colossal man |
| 35% | SETPOINT | 8 | In tennis, the last one to win a group of games |
| 35% | ABBEY | 5 | "Northanger ___" (Jane Austen novel about the daughter of a rural clergyman) |
| 35% | MOHICANS | 8 | The Last of the __, a novel and a film |
| 35% | END | 3 | Flip the last page in a novel? |
| 35% | EYE | 3 | "The Bluest ___," 1970 novel written by Toni Morrison which is about a young girl growing up during the years of Great Depression |
| 35% | TWOL | 4 | Like the pack animal about which Nash wrote "he's a beast" |
| 35% | ULYSSES | 7 | Novel about one day in the life of three Dubliners |
| 34% | HOME | 4 | "Lassie Come-___," novel written by Eric Knight about a rough collie's journey |
| 34% | TARBABY | 7 | 1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance |
| 34% | MARKTWAIN | 9 | Wrote one of the Great American Novels |
| 34% | TATTOO | 6 | Stieg Larsson wrote about a Girl with a Dragon one |
| 33% | ODE | 3 | Wordsworth wrote one about a cuckoo |
| 33% | ERAGON | 6 | Christopher Paolini novel about a boy who rides the dragon Saphira |
| 33% | SUBMARINE | 9 | The Beatles sang about living in a yellow one |
| 33% | ROAD | 4 | The Beatles sang about a long and winding one |
| 32% | DEALBREAKER | 11 | Harlan Coben novel about a sports agent investigating the disappearance of his star client's ex-girlfriend, featuring an Iowa university |