| SIDDHARTHA | Hermann Hesse novel set during Buddha's time |
| GLASSBEADGAME | 'The ---', 1943 novel by Hermann Hesse (5,4,4) |
| THEGLASS | 1943 novel by Hermann Hesse (3,5,4,4) |
| BEADGAME | 1943 novel by Hermann Hesse (3,5,4,4) |
| STEPPENWOLF | 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse featuring Harry Haller (11) |
| GAME | 1943 novel by Hermann Hesse (3,5,4,4) |
| THEGLASSBEAD | 1943 novel by Hermann Hesse (3,5,4,4) |
| SHEEPISH | Embarrassed by detective in Hesse novel getting high (8) |
| KNULP | 1915 Hermann Hesse book |
| DEMIAN | 1919 bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse |
| ANDREGIDE | Literature Nobelist between Hermann Hesse and T. S. Eliot |
| EMIL | ___ Sinclair (pseudonym for Hermann Hesse) |
| ONESIDED | “Everything that is thought and expressed in words is ____” (Hermann Hesse) |
| BIRDSONG | Sebastian Faulks novel set during World War One (8) |
| APASSAGETOINDIA | 1924 novel set during the British Raj |
| DARKNESSATONEPM | 1940 Arthur Koestler novel set during the Moscow Trials |
| AFAREWELLTOARMS | Ernest Hemingway novel set during the First World War |
| CUBA | "Telex from ___" (Rachel Kushner novel set during a nineteen-fifties revolution) |
| THETRUMPETMAJOR | Hardy novel set during the Napoleonic Wars |
| CANNERYROW | 1945 John Steinbeck novel set during the Great Depression (7,3) |
