| 100% | PASTORAL | 8 | Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Roth, American __ |
| 70% | BELOVED | 7 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison |
| 68% | LESS | 4 | Novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 |
| 67% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | Novel by 30-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 66% | THEGOODEARTH | 12 | 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by 26-Across (3 wds.) |
| 66% | ARROWSMITH | 10 | Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 novel by Sinclair Lewis |
| 66% | OVERSTORY | 9 | "The ___," novel by Richard Powers that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 66% | LESS | 4 | 2018 novel by Andrew Sean Greer that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 65% | THEOVERSTORY | 12 | 2018 novel by 32-Across that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2 wds.) |
| 64% | NIGHT | 5 | "The ___ Watchman," 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 63% | THEOLDDEVILS | 12 | 1986 Booker Prize winning novel by Kingsley Amis |
| 62% | THEREIVERS | 10 | "___: A Reminiscence," the last novel by William Faulkner that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| 62% | ROAD | 4 | "The ___," 2006 novel by Cormac McCarthy featuring an unnamed protagonist that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 62% | AGEE | 4 | Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, James |
| 61% | DAWN | 4 | "An Army at ___: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943," Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Rick Atkinson |
| 59% | LONESOMEDOVE | 12 | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by 5-Down made into a TV miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones (2 wds.) |
| 59% | TWO | 3 | Number of Pulitzer Prizes won by Colson Whitehead |
| 59% | NOBEL | 5 | Prize won by four American presidents |
| 58% | THEROAD | 7 | 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| 56% | CELIE | 5 | Alice Walker's fictional character and protagonist from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple" |
| 53% | HERNAN | 6 | __ Diaz, wrote Pulitzer prize-winning novel Trust |
| 53% | ANGLEOF | 7 | & 21A 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner; 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner |
| 53% | ASBRAVEASYOU | 12 | 2016 novel by 30-Across that won the Kirkus Prize: 4 wds. |
| 51% | THEUNCONSOLED | 13 | 1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro for which he won the Cheltenham Prize: 2 wds. |
| 51% | POOLE | 5 | Ernest —, author of 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel His Family |
| 51% | TARTT | 5 | Donna who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch" |
| 50% | GAIN | 4 | Novel by Richard Powers that won the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction in 1999 |
| 50% | EVENING | 7 | "The Discomfort of ___," novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld which won the International Booker Prize 2020 |