Books by reading effort
From lighter reads to more demanding books. Reading effort starts from writing, ideas, structure and background knowledge, each scored 1-5, then adjusts for pace and length, into a 0-100 score. It is not a quality rating.
2,536 book guides · Showing 913–960
The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket
Effort 31/100
All Boys Aren't Blue
George M. Johnson
Effort 31/100
Flamer
Mike Curato
Effort 31/100
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
Effort 31/100
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
Effort 31/100
Hotel
Arthur Hailey
Effort 31/100
Lawn Boy
Jonathan Evison
Effort 31/100
Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
Effort 31/100
The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills
Effort 31/100
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Effort 32/100
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Effort 32/100
Carrie
Stephen King
Effort 32/100
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
Effort 32/100
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Effort 32/100
The Hired Girl
Laura Amy Schlitz
Effort 32/100
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
Effort 32/100
All About Love
bell hooks
Effort 32/100
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Effort 32/100
8 Rules of Love
Jay Shetty
Effort 32/100
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Effort 32/100
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Effort 32/100
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
Effort 32/100
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Effort 32/100
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
Effort 32/100
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
Effort 32/100
Gerald's Game
Stephen King
Effort 32/100
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
Rick Riordan
Effort 32/100
Dragonflight
Anne McCaffrey
Effort 32/100
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
Effort 32/100
The Burning Maze
Rick Riordan
Effort 32/100
The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie
Effort 32/100
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone
Effort 32/100
Why I Am an Atheist
Bhagat Singh
Effort 32/100
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney
Effort 32/100
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 32/100
The Ship of the Dead
Rick Riordan
Effort 32/100
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Effort 32/100
Happy Place
Emily Henry
Effort 32/100
God of Pain
Rina Kent
Effort 32/100
Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare
Effort 32/100
The Housemaid Is Watching
Freida McFadden
Effort 32/100
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
Effort 32/100
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Effort 32/100
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
Margarita Madrigal
Effort 32/100
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
Effort 32/100
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Effort 32/100
The Heir
Kiera Cass
Effort 32/100
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews
Effort 32/100
