| MARRYME | John Updike novel subtitled A Romance |
| LORNADOONE | Novel subtitled "A Romance of Exmoor" |
| LORNA | and 51ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| DOONE | see 53ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| RABBITRUN | First in a John Updike novel series |
| ATREST | 1990 John Updike novel, the last of a quartet (6,2,4) |
| RABBIT | 1990 John Updike novel, the last of a quartet (6,2,4) |
| THECAUR | 1963 John Updike novel |
| AMONTHOFSUNDAYS | John Updike novel |
| REDUX | "Rabbit ___" (1971 John Updike novel) |
| RABBITATREST | John Updike novel with an animal in its title |
| WITCHES | John Updike novel, The ... of Eastwick |
| TERRORIST | 2006 John Updike novel (9) |
| THEWITCHESOFEASTWICK | John Updike novel, filmed in 1987 |
| RUN | "Rabbit, ___" (John Updike novel) |
| ANGSTROM | Rabbit's last name, in the John Updike novels |
| YEMASSEE | The ___, 1835 novel by William Gilmore Simms subtitled A Romance of Carolina (8) |
| FLATLAND | Novella by Edwin A Abbott subtitled A Romance of Many Dimensions (8) |
| RUINS | see 22ac, 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh subtitled A Romance of the Near Future |
| LOVEAMONGTHE | 1953 novel by Evelyn Waugh subtitled A Romance of the Near Future (4,5,3,5) |
