| JASONMOTT | Author who won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for Hell of a Book: 2 wds. |
| TELLALL | Spill the entire story in a book: 2 wds. |
| MATRIX | Lauren Groff historical novel; 2021 National Book Award finalist |
| TITLEPAGE | Thing in the front of a book (2 words) |
| MOTT | "Hell of a Book" author Jason |
| BAMA | Loser of the 2021 national championship to the Georgia Bulldogs, informally |
| GALLAGHER | Mollie, Nina Lucas in Coronation Street; Serial Drama Performance winner at the 2021 National Television Awards (9) |
| INLAWS | Relatives seen in a book (2-4) |
| TESSGUNTY | Author who won the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch: 2 wds. |
| SUSANCHOI | Author who won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction for Trust Exercise: 2 wds. |
| CHARLESYU | Author who won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction for Interior Chinatown: 2 wds. |
| JAMESMCBRIDE | African-American author of The Good Lord Bird winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| YIYUN | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "The Book of Goose," about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
| RALPHELLISON | African-American author of Invisible Man winner of the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction: 2 wds. |
| THEFRIEND | Book that won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction written by Sigrid Nunez: 2 wds. |
| TESS | Gunty who wrote "The Rabbit Hutch," winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction |
| INAMERICA | 1999 novel by Susan Sontag, winner of the US National Book Award for Fiction (2,7) |
| TANEHISICOATES | African-American author of Between the World and Me winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction: 2 wds. |
| ANNIEPROULX | Author who won the National Book Award for her 1993 novel "The Shipping News": 2 wds. |
| LOUISEERDRICH | Author who won the National Book Award for her 2012 novel "The Round House": 2 wds. |
