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 1105–1152

After the Funeral
Agatha Christie
Effort 35/100

Secrets of Divine Love
A. Helwa
Effort 35/100

A Time to Kill
John Grisham
Effort 35/100

Point of Retreat
Colleen Hoover
Effort 35/100

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Effort 35/100

Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
Effort 35/100

Social Engineering
Christopher Hadnagy
Effort 35/100

The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
Effort 35/100

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
Effort 35/100

The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Effort 35/100

Matched
Ally Condie
Effort 35/100

Letting Go
David R. Hawkins
Effort 35/100

The Death Cure
James Dashner
Effort 35/100

This Girl
Colleen Hoover
Effort 35/100

When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago
Effort 35/100

The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
Effort 35/100

The Winner Effect
Ian H. Robertson
Effort 35/100

The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
Effort 35/100

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John C. Bogle
Effort 35/100

A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Effort 35/100

Network Effect
Martha Wells
Effort 35/100

Nothing but the Truth
Avi
Effort 35/100

The Crown
Kiera Cass
Effort 35/100

Psycho
Robert Bloch
Effort 35/100

The Devil's Arithmetic
Jane Yolen
Effort 35/100

A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
Effort 35/100

The Opal Deception
Eoin Colfer
Effort 35/100

The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
Effort 35/100

The Great Crash, 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Effort 35/100

The Last Guardian
Eoin Colfer
Effort 35/100

Sweet Thursday
John Steinbeck
Effort 35/100

Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
Effort 35/100

A Bell for Adano
John Hersey
Effort 35/100

Dear Committee Members
Julie Schumacher
Effort 35/100

Pop. 1280
Jim Thompson
Effort 35/100

Tokyo Express
Seichō Matsumoto
Effort 35/100

At the Sands
David G. Schwartz
Effort 35/100

Trapped Under the Sea
Neil Swidey
Effort 35/100

It Starts with Us
Colleen Hoover
Effort 36/100

Haunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton
Effort 36/100

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Effort 36/100

The Secret Language of Birthdays
Gary Goldschneider, Joost Elffers
Effort 36/100

Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Effort 36/100

You've Reached Sam
Dustin Thao
Effort 36/100

The Green Mile
Stephen King
Effort 36/100

Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
Effort 36/100

The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Effort 36/100

The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
Effort 36/100