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 241–288

Guts
Raina Telgemeier
Effort 15/100

I Too Had a Love Story
Ravinder Singh
Effort 24/100

To Sir Phillip, With Love
Julia Quinn
Effort 25/100

Attitude Is Everything
Jeff Keller
Effort 9/100

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Effort 23/100

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood
Effort 24/100

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
Effort 20/100

Naruto: Uzumaki Naruto
Masashi Kishimoto
Effort 12/100

Welcome to Dead House
R. L. Stine
Effort 9/100

Beach Read
Emily Henry
Effort 27/100

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 29/100

Elvis and Me
Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon
Effort 25/100

She Comes First
Ian Kerner
Effort 21/100

The Sword of Summer
Rick Riordan
Effort 24/100

The Joy of Sex
Alex Comfort
Effort 28/100

Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV Star
Rachel Renée Russell
Effort 13/100

Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Effort 24/100

The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate
Effort 21/100

Half Girlfriend
Chetan Bhagat
Effort 24/100

If You Could See the Sun
Ann Liang
Effort 27/100

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 26/100

The Strength in Our Scars
Bianca Sparacino
Effort 20/100

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang
Effort 22/100

Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Effort 23/100

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
Effort 25/100

God of Wrath
Rina Kent
Effort 28/100

Hooked
Emily McIntire
Effort 23/100

Too Late
Colleen Hoover
Effort 21/100

Spare
Prince Harry
Effort 27/100

Full Dark, No Stars
Stephen King
Effort 27/100

Convince Them in 90 Seconds or Less
Nicholas Boothman
Effort 22/100

Pillow Thoughts
Courtney Peppernell
Effort 17/100

The Dragonet Prophecy
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 20/100

The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Effort 29/100

The Millionaire Master Plan
Roger James Hamilton
Effort 25/100

Wildfire
Hannah Grace
Effort 27/100

You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow
Effort 27/100

Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris
Effort 25/100

Along Came a Spider
James Patterson
Effort 22/100

George's Marvelous Medicine
Roald Dahl
Effort 0/100

Fox in Socks
Dr. Seuss
Effort 9/100

Who Will Cry When You Die?
Robin Sharma
Effort 10/100

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 21/100

The Locked Door
Freida McFadden
Effort 24/100

White Fang
Jack London
Effort 29/100

I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Ann Liang
Effort 23/100

The Game of Life
Florence Scovel Shinn
Effort 8/100

Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Effort 21/100