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 1297–1344
Perfume
Patrick Süskind
Effort 39/100
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Effort 39/100
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 39/100
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski
Effort 39/100
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell
Effort 39/100
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
Effort 39/100
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Effort 39/100
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Effort 39/100
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
Effort 39/100
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Effort 39/100
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
Nathaniel Branden
Effort 39/100
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
Effort 39/100
Four Past Midnight
Stephen King
Effort 39/100
The Throne of Fire
Rick Riordan
Effort 39/100
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Effort 39/100
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 39/100
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
Effort 39/100
The Purpose Driven Life
Rick Warren
Effort 39/100
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Effort 39/100
Hackers
Steven Levy
Effort 39/100
Linux Basics for Hackers, 2nd Edition
OccupyTheWeb
Effort 39/100
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Effort 39/100
The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell
Effort 39/100
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Effort 39/100
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle
Effort 39/100
Vicious
V. E. Schwab
Effort 39/100
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Effort 39/100
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Effort 39/100
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Effort 39/100
A Short Stay in Hell
Steven L. Peck
Effort 39/100
Roadwork
Stephen King
Effort 39/100
The Fever Code
James Dashner
Effort 39/100
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Effort 39/100
White Night
Jim Butcher
Effort 39/100
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Effort 39/100
The Breathing Method
Stephen King
Effort 39/100
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Effort 39/100
All My Sons
Arthur Miller
Effort 39/100
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons
Effort 39/100
Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes
Effort 39/100
The Way West
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Effort 39/100
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Effort 39/100
The Concorde Story
Christopher Orlebar
Effort 39/100
Pet Sematary
Stephen King
Effort 40/100
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichirō Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Effort 40/100
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins
Effort 40/100
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Effort 40/100
The Mark of Athena
Rick Riordan
Effort 40/100
