| 100% | THETRAIN | 8 | The Girl on __, railway-based mystery novel |
| 58% | DOME | 4 | "Under the ___," 2013 sci-fi mystery TV series based on Stephen King's eponymous novel |
| 56% | VELVET | 6 | "National ___," 1944 sports film on a horse-crazy girl based on a novel of the same name |
| 54% | APASSAGETOINDIA | 15 | 1984 film based on the 1924 novel |
| 50% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | Film based on the novel "Shoeless Joe" (#32) |
| 50% | TRUEBLOOD | 9 | TV series based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries |
| 50% | BOAT | 4 | "The Girl on the ___," a novel by P.G. Wodehouse published as a book in 1922 |
| 49% | TRIPODS | 7 | The —, 1980s BBC TV series based on novels by John Christopher |
| 49% | BABE | 4 | 1995 movie based on the novel "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 48% | NOESCAPE | 8 | Ray Liotta thiller based on the novel The Penal Colony |
| 48% | WILLARD | 7 | 1971 hit movie based on the novel "Ratman's Notebooks" |
| 48% | CANNOTSEE | 9 | All the Light We __, 2023 series based on a novel |
| 48% | CLUELESS | 8 | Alicia Silverstone film based on the Jane Austen novel "Emma" |
| 48% | BABE | 4 | Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig" |
| 48% | CAROL | 5 | Cate Blanchett film based on the novel "The Price of Salt" |
| 48% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (Charlotte Brontë novel or the 2011 movie based on it) |
| 48% | EMMA | 4 | Jane Austen novel that the movie "Clueless" is loosely based on |
| 48% | CABARET | 7 | Broadway musical based on the Christopher Isherwood novel "Goodbye to Berlin" |
| 48% | NIGHTVALE | 9 | "Welcome to ___," 2015 novel based on the eponymous podcast: 2 wds. |
| 47% | PAULAHAWKINS | 12 | Author of "The Girl on the Train," a novel adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt (2 wds.) |
| 47% | EMMA | 4 | Novel on which the film "Clueless" is based |
| 47% | AMERICANWOMAN | 13 | Novel by 52-Across based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ALL | 3 | "___ the Light We Cannot See" (miniseries based on a novel by Anthony Doerr) |
| 47% | MARIOPUZO | 9 | Author who wrote the novel 15-Across was based on: 2 wds. |
| 47% | NURSE | 5 | "Night ___," Barbara Stanwyck starrer based on the eponymous novel by Dora Macy |
| 47% | EVE | 3 | "Killing ___" (Sandra Oh series based on the "Villanelle" novels by Luke Jennings) |
| 47% | GODFATHER | 9 | The 1972 crime film based on Mario Puzo's novel |