| 100% | BOTSWANA | 8 | Setting of the Bessie Head novel “A Question of Power” |
| 48% | FAGIN | 5 | Head of a gang of thieves in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist |
| 48% | EYRE | 4 | "The ___ Affair" (murder mystery set in the universe of a Brontë novel) |
| 48% | OTRANTO | 7 | Italian city that is the title setting of a Walpole novel |
| 48% | IRAN | 4 | Setting of the Dalia Sofer novel "The Septembers of Shiraz" |
| 47% | DATE | 4 | "Save the ___," 2018 novel by Morgan Matson set against the backdrop of a wedding |
| 45% | CHILD | 5 | "The Snow ___," novel by Eowyn Ivey set in the Alaskan wilderness, where a girl made of snow comes to life |
| 45% | IRAN | 4 | Setting of the graphic novel "Persepolis" |
| 45% | EGDONHEATH | 10 | Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| 45% | LIST | 4 | "The Guest ___," 2020 novel by Lucy Foley that is a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a wedding |
| 44% | AMYANDISABELLE | 14 | Elizabeth Strout novel set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls about a mother and daughter (3 wds.) |
| 44% | HOMETOWN | 8 | Setting for the early chapters of a biography |
| 43% | RURITANIA | 9 | Fictional setting of 1894 Anthony Hope novel The Prisoner of Zenda |
| 43% | IRAN | 4 | Setting of the novel Children of the Jacaranda Tree |
| 43% | MOHICANS | 8 | The Last of the __, a novel and a film |
| 43% | UPPER | 5 | Has the ___ hand (is in a position of power) |
| 43% | NOD | 3 | A shake of the head |
| 43% | EGDON | 5 | & 18D Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| 43% | ABBESS | 6 | The female head of a convent or community of nuns |
| 43% | OTRANTO | 7 | Town on the SE tip of Italy that's the title setting for a Horace Walpole novel |
| 42% | WRATH | 5 | "The Grapes of ___," novel by John Steinbeck, set in the Great Depression, that was a major reason for him winning the Nobel Prize |
| 42% | CEO | 3 | Top of the power chain at a corporation: Abbr. |
| 42% | YES | 3 | One of the answers in a 20 Questions game |
| 42% | MAINE | 5 | Setting of many a Stephen King novel |
| 42% | TEST | 4 | Set of questions in a school (examination) |
| 42% | ABBESS | 6 | The head of a convent of nuns |
| 42% | UNCLEOSWALD | 11 | "My ___," Roald Dahl's adult novel published in 1979 about a man discovering the aphrodisiac powers of the Sudanese blister beetle: 2 wds. |
| 42% | CHINA | 5 | Setting of Lisa See's novel "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" |
| 41% | ABRAHAMLINCOLN | 14 | Historical figure whose son is the central character of a George Saunders novel mostly set in a temporary afterlife |