Across
- 2. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 3. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 5. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 6. Independence Day by Richard Ford
- 7. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- 9. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabron
- 11. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 12. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahri
- 13. March by Geraldine Brooks
Down
- 1. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 4. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- 5. Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
- 6. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 7. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- 8. Tinkers by Paul Harding
- 9. Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 11. The Road by Cormac McCarthy