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 1489–1536
The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
Effort 43/100
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Effort 43/100
After We Collided
Anna Todd
Effort 43/100
Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka
Effort 43/100
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Effort 43/100
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
Effort 43/100
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
Effort 43/100
Unmasking Autism
Devon Price
Effort 43/100
The Tower of Nero
Rick Riordan
Effort 43/100
The Secret Life of the Mind
Mariano Sigman
Effort 43/100
Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson
Effort 43/100
Homeland
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 43/100
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet A. Jacobs
Effort 43/100
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 43/100
My Secret Garden
Nancy Friday
Effort 43/100
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Effort 43/100
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Effort 43/100
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Effort 43/100
How to Solve It
George Pólya
Effort 43/100
The Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett
Effort 43/100
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
Effort 43/100
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
Effort 43/100
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Effort 43/100
Impulse
Ellen Hopkins
Effort 43/100
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Effort 43/100
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
Effort 43/100
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 43/100
The Poison Jungle
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 43/100
The Hot Zone
Richard Preston
Effort 43/100
Two Boys Kissing
David Levithan
Effort 43/100
Nine Stories
J. D. Salinger
Effort 43/100
Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson
Effort 43/100
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 43/100
Friday Night Lights
Buzz Bissinger
Effort 43/100
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
Effort 43/100
Harvest Home
Thomas Tryon
Effort 43/100
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Effort 43/100
The Lost Stories
John Flanagan
Effort 43/100
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
Effort 43/100
Starless Night: Dungeons & Dragons
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 43/100
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
Effort 43/100
How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 43/100
Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
Effort 43/100
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
Effort 43/100
March
Geraldine Brooks
Effort 43/100
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Robert Olen Butler
Effort 43/100
Changes in the Land
William Cronon
Effort 43/100
Nobody's Fool
Richard Russo
Effort 43/100
