| 100% | CIA | 3 | Subj. of the 2005 Pulitzer-winning book "Ghost Wars" |
| 58% | IRS | 3 | Subj. of the 2005 book "Many Unhappy Returns" |
| 47% | ENRON | 5 | Subject of the 2005 book "Conspiracy of Fools" |
| 45% | NSA | 3 | Subj. of the book "The Puzzle Palace" |
| 45% | IRS | 3 | Subj. of the book "Many Unhappy Returns" |
| 45% | CIA | 3 | Subj. of the 2007 book “Legacy of Ashes” |
| 45% | GUILLEN | 7 | Winning manager of the 2005 World Series |
| 44% | JARED | 5 | ___ Diamond, author of the 1998 Pulitzer-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" |
| 44% | OED | 3 | Subj. of the 2003 book "The Meaning of Everything" |
| 44% | SOUTH | 5 | "___ Pacific," musical based on a Pulitzer-winning book which was released during the Golden Age of Broadway |
| 44% | SIS | 3 | "Revenge of the ___" ("Star Wars: Jedi Academy" book) |
| 43% | NEA | 3 | Subj. of the dance scholar Sarah Wilbur’s book “Funding Bodies” |
| 43% | ESP | 3 | Subj. of Terence Hines's book "Pseudoscience and the Paranormal" |
| 43% | IMAN | 4 | Supermodel who wrote the 2005 book "The Beauty of Color" |
| 41% | REMAINS | 7 | "The ___ of the Day" (Kazuo Ishiguro novel that won the Booker Prize) |
| 40% | OURS | 4 | "One of ___" (Willa Cather novel that won the Pulitzer Prize) |
| 40% | WHARTON | 7 | Edith who won a Pulitzer for The Age of Innocence |
| 40% | BANVILLE | 8 | John —, author of 2005 Man Booker Prize winner The Sea |
| 40% | DALECARNEGIE | 12 | Author of the self-help book "How to Win Friends and Influence People": 2 wds. |
| 39% | BARKER | 6 | Pat —, author of 1995 Booker McConnell Prize winner The Ghost Road |
| 39% | WONTSTOP | 8 | Can't Stop __, 2005 book about the rise of hip-hop |
| 39% | ADICHIE | 7 | Author of the award-winning book Americanah |
| 39% | WATCHMAN | 8 | "The Night ___," Louise Erdrich's book which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021 |
| 39% | ERA | 3 | "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War ___" (1988 James M. McPherson book) |
| 39% | ALAN | 4 | Hollinghurst who won the 2004 Booker Prize for “The Line of Beauty” |
| 39% | RELEE | 5 | Pulitzer-winning biography of a Civil War general |
| 38% | SHANE | 5 | Filmmaker Acker, creator of the 2005 multi-award-winning computer animated short "9" |
| 38% | ELIHUROOT | 9 | Secretary of War who went on to win the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 38% | AGE | 3 | Edith Wharton's Pulitzer winning novel "The ___ of Innocence" |
| 38% | LAHIRI | 6 | Jhumpa ___, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Interpreter of Maladies" |