| OFMADISON | Romantic drama based on a best-selling novel, The Bridges...County (2,7) |
| OCEAN | Film based on a best-selling novel, The Deep End of the _ (5) |
| GATSBY | Baz Luhrmann romantic drama based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great ... (6) |
| MARIN | Golden Gate Bridge county |
| DAVINCI | Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The ___ Code": 2 wds. |
| MICHENER | James A., author of the novel The Bridges at TokoRi (8) |
| PLAINSONG | A best-selling novel by the US writer Kurt Haruf (9) |
| IVOANDRIC | Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| WHERETHEWILDTHINGS | 2009 fantasy film based on a best-selling book |
| NEEDFOR | Aaron Paul action film based on a best-selling video game, ...Speed (4,3) |
| EATPRAY | Julia Roberts romance based on a best-selling memoir, ___ Love |
| THEGOBLET | Film based on the best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and ___ of Fire (3,6) |
| NUMBERONE | Having a best-selling pop record myself (6,3) |
| EASTLYNNE | Victorian best-selling novel by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood (4,5) |
| MRSBEETON | English journalist and editor, born 1836, who wrote a best-selling Book of Household Management (3,6) |
| STELLA | She went to Dallas in a best-selling novel, etc. |
| LOLITA | 1962 Kubrick adaptation of a best-selling novel |
| ANN | ___ Petry, first female African-American writer with a million-selling novel ("The Street") |
| THEGOLDFINCH | 2019 film based on a 2013 best-selling novel by Donna Tartt: 2 wds. |
| GIRL | "The ___ on the Train" (2015 best-selling novel) |
