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 337–384
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Effort 24/100
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
J. K. Rowling
Effort 24/100
Maybe Not
Colleen Hoover
Effort 14/100
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
Effort 12/100
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Dr. Seuss
Effort 2/100
Limitless
Jim Kwik
Effort 25/100
Dog Man: Fetch-22
Dav Pilkey
Effort 8/100
The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
Effort 22/100
Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter
Rachel Renée Russell
Effort 12/100
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Effort 17/100
Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
Effort 20/100
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Effort 27/100
Holding Up the Universe
Jennifer Niven
Effort 27/100
How to Train Your Dragon
Cressida Cowell
Effort 21/100
Are You My Mother?
P. D. Eastman
Effort 2/100
The Mamba Mentality
Kobe Bryant
Effort 25/100
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Effort 22/100
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey
Effort 24/100
Big Nate Blasts Off
Lincoln Peirce
Effort 5/100
The Art of Reading Minds
Henrik Fexeus
Effort 21/100
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
Sean Covey
Effort 22/100
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
Effort 29/100
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill
Effort 24/100
Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business
Dale Carnegie
Effort 26/100
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Effort 24/100
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
Effort 4/100
The Ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan
Effort 22/100
The 10X Rule
Grant Cardone
Effort 21/100
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
Effort 2/100
The Firm
John Grisham
Effort 27/100
Jaws
Peter Benchley
Effort 26/100
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 25/100
Dance Upon the Air
Nora Roberts
Effort 27/100
A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair
Effort 24/100
The Green Witch
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Effort 27/100
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
Effort 14/100
Everything's Eventual
Stephen King
Effort 28/100
The Ugly Duckling
Hans Christian Andersen
Effort 12/100
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
Effort 27/100
The Phantom Prince
Elizabeth Kendall
Effort 23/100
Slammed
Colleen Hoover
Effort 26/100
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
Effort 27/100
Once You're Mine
Morgan Bridges
Effort 22/100
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
Effort 23/100
The Boxcar Children
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Effort 5/100
The Enchanted Castle
E. Nesbit
Effort 22/100
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis
Effort 22/100
A Long Walk to Water
Linda Sue Park
Effort 19/100
