| 100% | YEMASSEE | 8 | The —, 1835 novel by William Gilmore Simms subtitled A Romance of Carolina |
| 41% | CLARISSA | 8 | 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled The History of a Young Lady |
| 41% | SEVENTEEN | 9 | 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington subtitled A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William |
| 41% | DOCTORSYN | 9 | 1915 novel by Russell Thorndike subtitled A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh |
| 40% | DRED | 4 | 1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp |
| 39% | EVELINA | 7 | 1778 novel by Frances Burney subtitled The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World |
| 37% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 37% | BENHUR | 6 | 1880 novel by Lew Wallace subtitled A Tale of the Christ |
| 37% | AJACOBITE | 9 | & 17A 1893 novel by G A Henty subtitled Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII of Sweden |
| 37% | PEOPLE | 6 | Novel by Chinua Achebe: A Man of the __ |
| 36% | VANITYFAIR | 10 | 1848 novel by William Thackeray subtitled A Novel without a Hero |
| 35% | HORNETSNEST | 11 | The —, 2003 book by Jimmy Carter subtitled A Novel of the Revolutionary War |
| 35% | TWOSISTERS | 10 | 1970 work by Gore Vidal subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir |
| 35% | MONSIEUR | 8 | 1974 novel by Lawrence Durrell subtitled The Prince of Darkness |
| 35% | EUPHUES | 7 | 1578 novel by John Lyly subtitled The Anatomy of Wit |
| 35% | THEPILOTSWIFE | 13 | Novel by 29-Across about the aftermath of a plane crash (3 wds.) |
| 34% | UNGAVA | 6 | 1858 novel by R M Ballantyne subtitled A Tale of Esquimaux-Land |
| 34% | THEMANSION | 10 | 1959 novel by William Faulkner that is the last of the trilogy on the Snopes family: 2 wds. |
| 33% | CHOKE | 5 | 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk which follows the story of a con man, Victor |
| 33% | INVISIBLE | 9 | "___ Monsters," 1999 novel by Chuck Palahniuk which follows the story of a former model |
| 33% | ASI | 3 | "___ Lay Dying," 1930 novel by William Faulkner, the title of which is derived from Homer's "Odyssey": 2 wds. |
| 33% | AURORADAWN | 10 | Debut novel by 43-Across subtitled "Or, the True History of Andrew Reale" (2 wds.) |
| 33% | DRACULA | 7 | Gothic novel by Bram Stoker which tells the story of a vampire on the loose |
| 33% | HOME | 4 | 2012 novel by Toni Morrison which is about a young veteran of the Korean War |
| 33% | MEPHISTO | 8 | 1936 written work by Klaus Mann subtitled Novel of a Career |
| 33% | EDGEOF | 6 | & 10A The —, subtitle of 1999 novel Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding |