| 100% | HAJ | 3 | Uris novel, with "The" |
| 93% | HAJ | 3 | Leon Uris novel, with "The" |
| 93% | HAJ | 3 | Leon Uris novel, with “The” |
| 81% | DUNE | 4 | Novel with the desert planet Arrakis |
| 80% | OMOO | 4 | Novel with the chapter "Farming in Polynesia" |
| 80% | HAJ | 3 | Uris novel, The ___ |
| 79% | JANEEYRE | 8 | Novel with the line "Reader, I married him" |
| 77% | OPIONEERS | 9 | Classic novel with the heroine Alexandra Bergson |
| 76% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Melville novel with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 76% | OMOO | 4 | 1847 novel with the chapter "Life at Loohooloo" |
| 75% | OLDMANANDTHESEA | 15 | 1952 novel, with The |
| 75% | ATALEOFTWOCITIES | 16 | Dickens novel with the 56-Across as its backdrop |
| 74% | YAAGYASI | 8 | Writer with the novel Homegoing |
| 74% | UGLIES | 6 | 2005 Scott Westerfeld sci-fi novel with the sequel "Pretties" |
| 72% | NEVERLETMEGO | 12 | 2005 Kazuo Ishiguro novel with the line “Carers aren’t machines” |
| 72% | VAMPIRE | 7 | Interview with the __, novel by Anne Rice |
| 72% | TILLIE | 6 | Walden with the graphic novel memoir "Spinning" |
| 70% | ANGRYHILLS | 10 | The —, 1955 novel by Leon Uris |
| 70% | TYLER | 5 | Anne with the Pulitzer-winning novel "Breathing Lessons" |
| 70% | SARA | 4 | Author Paretsky with the 2024 novel "Pay Dirt" |
| 70% | STAND | 5 | Stephen King novel, with The |
| 69% | NEAL | 4 | Science fiction author Stephenson with the upcoming novel "Seveneves" |
| 69% | PETSEMATARY | 11 | Stephen King novel with a misspelling in the title |
| 68% | JODI | 4 | Writer Picoult with the 2021 novel "Wish You Were Here" |
| 67% | HAJ | 3 | Leon Uris novel "The ___" |
| 67% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 67% | HAJ | 3 | Uris book, with "The" |
| 67% | BELOVED | 7 | 1987 novel with the opening lines “124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom” |
| 67% | SPY | 3 | Cooper novel, with "The" |