Light reads
Books with a reading-effort score under 30 out of 100. Effort describes the attention a book asks for, not its emotional weight.
785 book guides · Showing 529–576

The Art of Witty Banter
Patrick King
Effort 16/100

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
Effort 8/100

The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Effort 27/100

She Drives Me Crazy
Kelly Quindlen
Effort 22/100

The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion
Effort 22/100

The Cartel
Ashley & JaQuavis
Effort 21/100

XOXO
Axie Oh
Effort 23/100

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
John C. Maxwell
Effort 26/100

Battlefield of the Mind
Joyce Meyer
Effort 25/100

Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Effort 29/100

The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
Effort 21/100

Kiss the Girls
James Patterson
Effort 22/100

The Magic Finger
Roald Dahl
Effort 0/100

The Foot Book
Dr. Seuss
Effort 2/100

All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
James Herriot
Effort 28/100

Restart
Gordon Korman
Effort 21/100

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar
Effort 15/100

Jack & Jill
James Patterson
Effort 28/100

Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie
Effort 21/100

King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
Effort 26/100

One Night at the Call Center
Chetan Bhagat
Effort 22/100

Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings
Effort 25/100

Frog and Toad Together
Arnold Lobel
Effort 2/100

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
Effort 24/100

Book Lovers
Emily Henry
Effort 24/100

The Power of Darkness
E. Nesbit
Effort 28/100

400 Days
Chetan Bhagat
Effort 23/100

Until Love Sets Us Apart
Aditya Nighhot
Effort 24/100

The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
Effort 20/100

Four: A Divergent Collection
Veronica Roth
Effort 27/100

Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe
Effort 27/100

The Client
John Grisham
Effort 26/100

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
Effort 7/100

The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Effort 28/100

Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
Effort 25/100

Stop Overthinking
Nick Trenton
Effort 20/100

The Day the Crayons Quit
Drew Daywalt
Effort 7/100

The Mirror Crack'd
Agatha Christie
Effort 28/100

An Abundance of Katherines
John Green
Effort 26/100

The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
Effort 28/100

The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Effort 23/100

Mind Management, Not Time Management
David Kadavy
Effort 24/100

At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie
Effort 24/100

This Is Where It Ends
Marieke Nijkamp
Effort 25/100

Violets Are Blue
James Patterson
Effort 21/100

Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett
Effort 21/100

Can You Keep a Secret?
Sophie Kinsella
Effort 23/100

My Life with the Walter Boys
Ali Novak
Effort 27/100