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 1153–1200
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
Effort 36/100
Naledi
Dudu Busani-Dube
Effort 36/100
Candide
Voltaire
Effort 36/100
Losing Hope
Colleen Hoover
Effort 36/100
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
Effort 36/100
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Effort 36/100
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Effort 36/100
Unwind
Neal Shusterman
Effort 36/100
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
Effort 36/100
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
Effort 36/100
Why Does He Do That?
Lundy Bancroft
Effort 36/100
Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams
Effort 36/100
Fairy Tale
Stephen King
Effort 36/100
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
Effort 36/100
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
Effort 36/100
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
Effort 36/100
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Effort 36/100
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Effort 36/100
Love from A to Z
S. K. Ali
Effort 36/100
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
Effort 36/100
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
Effort 36/100
The Defining Decade
Meg Jay
Effort 36/100
Siege and Storm
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 36/100
Renegades
Marissa Meyer
Effort 36/100
Scarlet
Marissa Meyer
Effort 36/100
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Effort 36/100
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Effort 36/100
American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
Effort 36/100
Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals
Effort 36/100
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Effort 36/100
Many Waters
Madeleine L'Engle
Effort 36/100
Desperate Characters
Paula Fox
Effort 36/100
Our Man in Havana
Graham Greene
Effort 36/100
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Effort 36/100
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
Effort 36/100
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
Effort 36/100
Fat City
Leonard Gardner
Effort 36/100
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
Effort 36/100
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
Martin Gardner
Effort 36/100
Laughing Boy
Oliver La Farge
Effort 36/100
The Last Good Kiss
James Crumley
Effort 36/100
Oranges
John McPhee
Effort 36/100
The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders
Effort 36/100
Pick-Up
Charles Willeford
Effort 36/100
Wildlife
Richard Ford
Effort 36/100
Under the Falls
Richard Russo
Effort 36/100
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
Effort 37/100
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Effort 37/100
