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 1393–1440
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
Effort 41/100
The House of Hades
Rick Riordan
Effort 41/100
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Effort 41/100
The Color of Magic
Terry Pratchett
Effort 41/100
Psycho-Cybernetics
Maxwell Maltz
Effort 41/100
Fifty Shades Freed
E. L. James
Effort 41/100
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Effort 41/100
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Effort 41/100
Firestarter
Stephen King
Effort 41/100
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
Effort 41/100
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Effort 41/100
Poems
Emily Dickinson
Effort 41/100
Elantris
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 41/100
Assassin's Apprentice
Robin Hobb
Effort 41/100
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
Effort 41/100
Ringworld
Larry Niven
Effort 41/100
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Effort 41/100
Things We Left Behind
Lucy Score
Effort 41/100
Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
Mark Minervini
Effort 41/100
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
Effort 41/100
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Effort 41/100
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
Effort 41/100
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Effort 41/100
Thunderhead
Neal Shusterman
Effort 41/100
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Effort 41/100
Basic Economics
Thomas Sowell
Effort 41/100
Dolores Claiborne
Stephen King
Effort 41/100
Ain't I a Woman
bell hooks
Effort 41/100
After We Fell
Anna Todd
Effort 41/100
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
Effort 41/100
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Effort 41/100
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Effort 41/100
The Flames of Hope
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 41/100
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
Effort 41/100
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
Effort 41/100
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
Effort 41/100
Our Town
Thornton Wilder
Effort 41/100
Hotel Du Lac
Anita Brookner
Effort 41/100
In Persuasion Nation
George Saunders
Effort 41/100
The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
Effort 41/100
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
David Lipsky
Effort 41/100
The Elected Member
Bernice Rubens
Effort 41/100
Condominium
John D. MacDonald
Effort 41/100
Draft No. 4
John McPhee
Effort 41/100
Cogan's Trade
George V. Higgins
Effort 41/100
Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 41/100
On Writing (and Writers)
C. S. Lewis
Effort 41/100
The Age of Grief
Jane Smiley
Effort 41/100
