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 1441–1488
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Effort 42/100
The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene
Effort 42/100
Trading in the Zone
Mark Douglas
Effort 42/100
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 42/100
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
Effort 42/100
Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer
Effort 42/100
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
Effort 42/100
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
Effort 42/100
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Effort 42/100
A Court of Frost and Starlight
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 42/100
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Effort 42/100
The Dark Half
Stephen King
Effort 42/100
Sourcery
Terry Pratchett
Effort 42/100
The Chosen
Chaim Potok
Effort 42/100
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Effort 42/100
The Carnivorous Carnival
Lemony Snicket
Effort 42/100
Ordinary People
Judith Guest
Effort 42/100
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Effort 42/100
Death Masks
Jim Butcher
Effort 42/100
Out of Darkness
Ashley Hope Pérez
Effort 42/100
The Rules of Attraction
Bret Easton Ellis
Effort 42/100
The Indifferent Stars Above
Daniel James Brown
Effort 42/100
All But My Life
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Effort 42/100
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Effort 42/100
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Effort 42/100
Imperium
Robert Harris
Effort 42/100
The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
Effort 42/100
So Big
Edna Ferber
Effort 42/100
The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
Effort 42/100
Encounters with the Archdruid
John McPhee
Effort 42/100
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Gary Kinder
Effort 42/100
The Able McLaughlins
Margaret Wilson
Effort 42/100
Saville
David Storey
Effort 42/100
Holiday
Stanley Middleton
Effort 42/100
Angel Down
Daniel Kraus
Effort 42/100
Hunting Adeline
H. D. Carlton
Effort 43/100
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Effort 43/100
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Effort 43/100
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Effort 43/100
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Effort 43/100
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, J. K. Rowling
Effort 43/100
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Effort 43/100
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Effort 43/100
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 43/100
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Effort 43/100
The Wicked King
Holly Black
Effort 43/100
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Effort 43/100
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Effort 43/100
