| 100% | WIND | 4 | The —, 1928 film starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson based on a novel by Dorothy Scarborough |
| 95% | THEWIND | 7 | 1928 film starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson based on a novel by Dorothy Scarborough |
| 91% | THEWIND | 7 | 1928 film drama starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson based on a novel by Dorothy Scarborough |
| 87% | THEWIND | 7 | 1928 drama starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson based on a novel by Dorothy Scarborough |
| 43% | THEFROG | 7 | 1937 crime film starring Noah Beery and Jack Hawkins based on a novel by Edgar Wallace |
| 41% | POORCOW | 7 | 1967 film drama starring Carol White and Terence Stamp based on a novel by Nell Dunn |
| 41% | LOSINGISAIAH | 12 | 1995 film drama starring Jessica Lange and Halle Berry based on a novel by Seth Margolis |
| 40% | POOR | 4 | & 18A 1967 film drama starring Carol White and Terence Stamp based on a novel by Nell Dunn |
| 38% | THEGRADUATE | 11 | 1967 romantic comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft based on a Charles Webb novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 37% | POORCOW | 7 | 1967 drama starring Carol White and Terence Stamp based on a novel by Nell Dunn |
| 35% | RINGOFBRIGHT | 12 | 1969 comedy-drama film starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna based on a book by Gavin Maxwell |
| 34% | HIGHFIDELITY | 12 | Film based on a Nick Hornby novel set in a record shop starring John Cusack and Joan Cusack (2 wds.) |
| 34% | FIVE | 4 | "___ on a Treasure Island," 1957 British film serial based on the novel of the same name by Enid Blyton |
| 34% | SORCERER | 8 | 1977 action film starring Roy Scheider based on the novel Le Salaire De La Peur by Georges Arnaud |
| 34% | GREYHOUND | 9 | 2020 war film starring Tom Hanks, 15-Across, 21-Across, and 38-Across based on the novel "The Good Shepherd" by C.S. Forester |
| 34% | LOLITA | 6 | 1997 film starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith that is based on a Nabokov novel |
| 34% | THESEAOFGRASS | 13 | 1947 Western drama film directed by Elia Kazan based on a 1936 novel of the same name, starring Katharine Hepburn: 4 wds. |
| 34% | FOUNTAINHEAD | 12 | "The ___," 1949 drama film starring Gary Cooper which was based on a novel of the same name by Ayn Rand |
| 34% | THEREVENANT | 11 | Leonardo DiCaprio drama based on a novel by Michael Punke and a 1915 poem (2 wds.) |
| 33% | UNDERTHESKIN | 12 | 2013 sci-fi film starring Scarlett Johansson based on a novel by Michel Faber |
| 33% | DOUBTFIRE | 9 | "Mrs. ___," comedy-drama film based on a novel by Anne Fine starring Robin Williams |
| 33% | THETINDRUM | 10 | 1979 film starring David Bennent based on a 1959 novel by Gunter Grass |
| 33% | GRAPES | 6 | "The ___ of Wrath," 1940 film starring Henry Fonda as a sharecropper, based on the eponymous John Steinbeck novel |
| 33% | JUDE | 4 | 1996 period drama film based on a Thomas Hardy novel starring Kate Winslet and Christopher Eccleston |
| 33% | THEFIRM | 7 | American legal thriller film based on a John Grisham novel by the same name: 2 wds. |
| 33% | MARYPOPPINS | 11 | 1964 film starring 17-Across and 30-Across based on children's books by P.L. Travers about a magical nanny (2 wds.) |
| 33% | THEWIZARDOFOZ | 13 | 1939 film based on a novel by L. Frank Baum (4 wds.) |