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 625–672
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Effort 27/100
Fool Moon
Jim Butcher
Effort 20/100
The Moving Finger
Agatha Christie
Effort 22/100
The Lost Continent
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 28/100
The Goal
Elle Kennedy
Effort 27/100
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson
Effort 22/100
Elevation
Stephen King
Effort 24/100
One Second After
William R. Forstchen
Effort 28/100
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
Effort 26/100
"What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Richard P. Feynman
Effort 27/100
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Effort 24/100
Pop Goes the Weasel
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 29/100
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Effort 28/100
Sold
Patricia McCormick
Effort 26/100
The Sorcerer of the North
John Flanagan
Effort 23/100
Tangerine
Edward Bloor
Effort 27/100
Shane
Jack Schaefer
Effort 29/100
Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 20/100
Snakehead
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 21/100
Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović
Effort 24/100
Stamped
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Effort 22/100
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
Effort 28/100
Big Nate Lives It Up
Lincoln Peirce
Effort 5/100
The Burning Bridge
John Flanagan
Effort 27/100
Double Cross
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
The Meltdown
Jeff Kinney
Effort 10/100
The Skin I'm In
Sharon G. Flake
Effort 28/100
Eric
Terry Pratchett
Effort 29/100
Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
3rd Degree
James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Effort 20/100
Little Town on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 28/100
The First Four Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 20/100
This Book Is Gay
Juno Dawson
Effort 22/100
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 28/100
Touching Spirit Bear
Ben Mikaelsen
Effort 29/100
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
Effort 27/100
Open
Andre Agassi
Effort 24/100
These Happy Golden Years
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 28/100
Homeless Bird
Gloria Whelan
Effort 24/100
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
Effort 26/100
The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson
Effort 27/100
I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore
Effort 22/100
Erak's Ransom
John Flanagan
Effort 29/100
The 5th Horseman
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro
Effort 27/100
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
Effort 21/100
Big Nate: From the Top
Lincoln Peirce
Effort 10/100
Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
Effort 19/100
