| 100% | PNIN | 4 | Titular professor in a Nabokov novel |
| 61% | BEALE | 5 | Titular street in a Baldwin novel |
| 59% | PNIN | 4 | Title professor in a 1957 novel |
| 55% | SWANN | 5 | Titular protagonist in a Marcel Proust novel |
| 55% | SULA | 4 | Titular character in a Toni Morrison novel |
| 55% | ALGERNON | 8 | Titular mouse in a classic Daniel Keyes novel |
| 55% | UBIK | 4 | Titular substance in a Philip K. Dick novel |
| 54% | ADA | 3 | Palindromic girl in a Vladimir Nabokov novel |
| 51% | LOLITA | 6 | 1962 dramedy based on a Nabokov novel, in which Peter Sellers' character assumes several disguises |
| 51% | TORTILLAFLAT | 12 | Titular California district in a Steinbeck novel |
| 48% | PLUM | 4 | Professor in a game |
| 47% | PLUM | 4 | Professor in a library, perhaps |
| 47% | ANNA | 4 | Count Vronsky's titular lover in a classic Tolstoy novel |
| 46% | PLUM | 4 | Professor in a game of Clue |
| 45% | ZAZA | 4 | Mistress in a Thomas Mann novel |
| 45% | JURASSIC | 8 | Park in a Michael Crichton novel |
| 45% | SETTING | 7 | Place and time in a novel |
| 45% | NEMO | 4 | Captain in a Jules Verne novel |
| 45% | TSGARP | 6 | Novelist in a John Irving novel |
| 44% | ANEW | 4 | In a novel way |
| 44% | LOLITA | 6 | Kubrick film based on a Nabokov novel |
| 43% | MORRIE | 6 | Title professor in a Mitch Albom best-seller |
| 43% | ADA | 3 | Nabokov novel with a palindromic title |
| 43% | LESTAT | 6 | Titular vampire in Anne Rice novels |
| 43% | OTELLO | 6 | Titular tenor in a Verdi opera |
| 43% | TED | 3 | Titular bear in a 2012 movie |
| 43% | TIMON | 5 | Titular misanthrope in a Shakespeare play |
| 43% | ANTONY | 6 | Titular lover in a Shakespeare tragedy |
| 43% | ARABELLA | 8 | Titular character in a Strauss opera |
| 43% | BABE | 4 | Titular pig in a 1995 film |