| 100% | DAVIDBALDACCI | 13 | Writer of 2018's "The Fallen," the fourth novel to feature detective Amos Decker (2 wds.) |
| 62% | JOHNSANDFORD | 12 | Writer of 2018's "Twisted Prey," the 28th novel to feature sleuth Lucas Davenport (2 wds.) |
| 60% | IRISJOHANSEN | 12 | Writer of 2018's "Shattered Mirror," the 24th novel to feature forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (2 wds.) |
| 45% | THELIGHTHOUSE | 13 | "To ___," writer Virginia Woolf's novel about the Ramsay family's visits to the Isle of Skye: 2 wds. |
| 41% | BEVERLYCLEARY | 13 | Writer of the Ramona Quimby children's books who lived to age 104: 2 wds. |
| 39% | THEVALKYRIES | 12 | Paulo Coelho's autobiographical novel of the journey to Mojave Desert: 2 wds. |
| 39% | MIDNITELOVER | 12 | Shaggy's fourth studio album featuring the hit "Piece Of My Heart": 2 wds. |
| 39% | BLUENIGHTS | 10 | American writer Joan Didion's 2011 memoir also called a "companion piece" to her earlier novel "The Year of Magical Thinking": 2 wds. |
| 38% | UPTOWNFUNK | 10 | Mark Ronson's song featuring Bruno Mars, that's fourth in the Billboard magazine's Top 10 songs of All-Time (1958-2018): 2 wds. |
| 38% | JOHNREBUS | 9 | Protagonist of the detective novel series by Ian Rankin: 2 wds. |
| 38% | DIVINEJUSTICE | 13 | Fourth novel in a series featuring Oliver Stone and his group of political watchdogs called the Camel Club (2 wds.) |
| 38% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Russian writer of the novel "Doctor Zhivago": 2 wds. |
| 37% | IVANTURGENEV | 12 | Russian writer of the novel "Fathers and Sons": 2 wds. |
| 37% | SARAPARETSKY | 12 | Author of "Brush Back," the latest of 17 novels featuring 38-Across: 2 wds. |
| 37% | JULESVERNE | 10 | Writer who created Captain Nemo, traveler to the submerged city of Atlantis: 2 wds. |
| 36% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Writer of the children's book, "The Cat in the Hat": 2 wds. |
| 36% | BEATRIXPOTTER | 13 | Writer of the children's story, "The Tale of Tom Kitten": 2 wds. |
| 36% | DAVIDBOWIE | 10 | Singer/actor who stars in the film adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | "Angels Fall" novelist who received the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | SCOTTODELL | 10 | Writer whose children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins" won a Newbery Medal in 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | Actor who topped Forbes Magazine's 2018 ranking of highest-paid actors, at $239 million, thanks to the sale of his tequila company: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ROBINDIANGELO | 13 | Writer of the bestseller "White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | JANEHARPER | 10 | 18-Across and 33-Across writer whose novel "The Dry" won the British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 2018 (2 wds.) |
| 34% | OCTAVIABUTLER | 13 | Writer of many dystopian novels, including "Parable of the Sower" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | IJEOMAOLUO | 10 | Writer of the bestseller "So You Want to Talk About Race" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | YESMAAM | 7 | Servant's reply to the lady of the house: 2 wds. |
| 34% | FIVE | 4 | "The Fall of ___," fourth novel in the "Lorien Legacies" series |
| 34% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Empire Falls" and 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | RICHARDRUSSO | 12 | Writer of 17-Across, 36-Across, and the 2019 novel "Chances Are ... " (2 wds.) |