| 100% | SPAKE | 5 | Thus ___ Zarathudtra was a 1997 translation of Nietzsche's philosophical novel |
| 33% | OUTSIDERS | 9 | S.E. Hinton's coming-of-age novel "The ___" which was adapted into a movie |
| 32% | POR | 3 | ___ Quién Doblan las Campanas (Spanish translation of a Hemingway novel) |
| 31% | DANDIE | 6 | & 23A Character in Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering after whom a breed of terrier is named |
| 30% | CIARANHINDS | 11 | "Belfast" actor who played Rochester opposite Samantha Morton as Jane Eyre in a 1997 film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel (2 wds.) |
| 30% | THERAINMAKER | 12 | 1997 legal drama film starring Matt Damon which is based on John Grisham's novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 30% | MRSDALLOWAY | 11 | 1997 British drama film starring Lena Headey, which is based on Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 30% | RICH | 4 | Jon M. Chu's 2018 film "Crazy ___ Asians" which is based on a 2013 novel of the same name |
| 29% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 29% | LOLITA | 6 | 1997 film starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith that is based on a Nabokov novel |
| 29% | MLB | 3 | A's are part of it |
| 29% | MEN | 3 | Of Mice and ___, "Restoring Force" band whose name is inspired by a John Steinbeck novel |
| 29% | FRANKMUIR | 9 | Author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 28% | MICHELLE | 8 | Williams who was a member of Destiny's Child |
| 28% | EZRA | 4 | Pound who was a friend of T.S. Eliot |
| 28% | BOSCO | 5 | Milk additive which is a competitor of Hershey's |
| 28% | GHOST | 5 | ___ Rider, Latin American Marvel superhero who is a character in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." |
| 28% | RASSELAS | 8 | Name by which Samuel Johnson's 1759 novel The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale is also known |
| 28% | HARRY | 5 | ___ S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States who was also a skilled piano player |
| 28% | GOD | 3 | "Child of ___," 1973 novel by Cormac McCarthy that was adapted into a 2013 film |
| 28% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 autobiography A Kentish Lad |
| 28% | MUIR | 4 | Frank —, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange and 1997 memoir A Kentish Lad |
| 28% | DAYBOOK | 7 | This clue is about the Elie Wiesel novel, not the portion of a week |
| 28% | OWED | 4 | Was in danger of a shark's bite |
| 28% | STASH | 5 | A squirrel's might be full of acorns |
| 28% | AUTISM | 6 | Asperger's is a form of it |
| 28% | FANNYHILL | 9 | Name by which 1748 John Cleland novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is known |
| 28% | EPIC | 4 | “The novel is the ___ of a world that has been abandoned by God”: György Lukács |
| 28% | MALORY | 6 | "___ Towers," series of novels by Enid Blyton that is set in a girls' boarding school |
| 28% | BORDERED | 8 | Was a neighbor of |