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 673–720
Crocodile Tears
Anthony Horowitz
Effort 21/100
Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson
Effort 27/100
Four Blind Mice
James Patterson
Effort 26/100
And Tango Makes Three
Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell
Effort 5/100
Deathwatch
Robb White
Effort 17/100
Packing for Mars
Mary Roach
Effort 28/100
Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz
Effort 28/100
Melissa
Alex Gino
Effort 18/100
Airport
Arthur Hailey
Effort 27/100
True Grit
Charles Portis
Effort 26/100
Sounder
William H. Armstrong
Effort 25/100
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Kimberly Willis Holt
Effort 27/100
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers
Effort 25/100
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran, Elisabeth B. Leyson
Effort 24/100
Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden
Effort 26/100
Apt Pupil
Stephen King
Effort 25/100
The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse
Effort 26/100
Neither Here nor There
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
Francisco Jiménez
Effort 22/100
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui
Effort 20/100
Wilt
Tom Sharpe
Effort 25/100
Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose
Effort 23/100
This Is Water
David Foster Wallace
Effort 25/100
Guts
Gary Paulsen
Effort 19/100
The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan
Effort 29/100
Beyond Magenta
Susan Kuklin
Effort 28/100
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
Effort 20/100
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Charles Bukowski
Effort 23/100
Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
Effort 26/100
Miss Buncle's Book
D. E. Stevenson
Effort 23/100
Sex Is a Funny Word
Cory Silverberg
Effort 17/100
The Sisters Brothers
Patrick deWitt
Effort 28/100
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard
Effort 22/100
Role Model
Rachel Reid
Effort 26/100
The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
John Flanagan
Effort 25/100
The Siege of Macindaw
John Flanagan
Effort 29/100
Common Goal
Rachel Reid
Effort 25/100
Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls
Effort 22/100
Let's Talk About It
Erika Moen, Matthew Nolan
Effort 24/100
The Mall
Richie Tankersley Cusick
Effort 17/100
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King
Effort 22/100
The Stranger
Katherine Applegate
Effort 16/100
The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel
Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan
Effort 17/100
Tough Guy
Rachel Reid
Effort 25/100
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
Audition
Ryū Murakami
Effort 23/100
Children of the Corn
Stephen King
Effort 14/100
I Am Jazz
Jessica Herthel, Jazz Jennings
Effort 2/100
