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 385–432

The Inmate
Freida McFadden
Effort 20/100

Positive Personality Profiles
Robert A. Rohm
Effort 20/100

The Crystal Shard
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 24/100

Bound by Honor
Cora Reilly
Effort 24/100

The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
Effort 15/100

Five Survive
Holly Jackson
Effort 21/100

Neon Gods
Katee Robert
Effort 24/100

The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Younger Girls
Valorie Lee Schaefer
Effort 8/100

Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon
Effort 20/100

The Tales of Beedle the Bard
J. K. Rowling
Effort 29/100

Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Scott Cunningham
Effort 29/100

From Zero to Millionaire
Nicolas Bérubé
Effort 21/100

The ONE Thing
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
Effort 21/100

Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl
Effort 11/100

Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie
Effort 26/100

The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Effort 29/100

The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Effort 21/100

Storm Front
Jim Butcher
Effort 19/100

Bridget Jones's Diary
Helen Fielding
Effort 23/100

One Indian Girl
Chetan Bhagat
Effort 27/100

The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie
Effort 20/100

Awkward
Svetlana Chmakova
Effort 8/100

The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie
Effort 21/100

That Was Then, This Is Now
S. E. Hinton
Effort 24/100

Big Nate: In the Zone
Lincoln Peirce
Effort 10/100

A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans
W. Bruce Cameron
Effort 26/100

What Was I Scared Of?
Dr. Seuss
Effort 2/100

Runaway Ralph
Beverly Cleary
Effort 14/100

Superfudge
Judy Blume
Effort 10/100

You Can Win
Shiv Khera
Effort 25/100

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Effort 28/100

Boy
Roald Dahl
Effort 20/100

The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)
Hal Elrod
Effort 20/100

Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli
Effort 23/100

No Roses for Sharon
Peggy Oppong
Effort 22/100

Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz
Effort 21/100

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Matthew Perry
Effort 26/100

Persuader
Lee Child
Effort 25/100

The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune
Effort 27/100

A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Effort 23/100

No Brainer
Jeff Kinney
Effort 5/100

The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
Effort 25/100

Loveless
Alice Oseman
Effort 28/100

Among the Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Effort 9/100

Anne of Avonlea
L. M. Montgomery
Effort 27/100

No More Mr Nice Guy
Robert A. Glover
Effort 28/100

Dopamine Detox
Thibaut Meurisse
Effort 7/100

A Bad Case of Stripes
David Shannon
Effort 7/100