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 1537–1584

Remainder
Tom McCarthy
Effort 43/100

The Store
T. S. Stribling
Effort 43/100

The Town
Conrad Richter
Effort 43/100

Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Stephen J. Burn
Effort 43/100

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
John Steinbeck
Effort 43/100

Irons in the Fire
John McPhee
Effort 43/100

Orientation and Other Stories
Daniel Orozco
Effort 43/100

The Keepers of the House
Shirley Ann Grau
Effort 43/100

The Salt Stones
Helen Whybrow
Effort 43/100

The Trouble with Being Born
Jeffrey DeShell
Effort 43/100

The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Effort 44/100

The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Effort 44/100

The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Effort 44/100

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Effort 44/100

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself
Joe Dispenza
Effort 44/100

This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Effort 44/100

Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Effort 44/100

Mastery
Robert Greene
Effort 44/100

The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan
Effort 44/100

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer
Effort 44/100

Insurgent
Veronica Roth
Effort 44/100

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
Effort 44/100

Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers
Effort 44/100

Watership Down
Richard Adams
Effort 44/100

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King
Effort 44/100

Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Effort 44/100

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Effort 44/100

The Kybalion
Three Initiates
Effort 44/100

Horus Rising
Dan Abnett
Effort 44/100

Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett
Effort 44/100

The Worldly Philosophers
Robert L. Heilbroner
Effort 44/100

A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
Effort 44/100

In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
Effort 44/100

Everblaze
Shannon Messenger
Effort 44/100

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Raymond Buckland
Effort 44/100

Believe Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 44/100

Tricks
Ellen Hopkins
Effort 44/100

The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
Effort 44/100

Monster
Sanyika Shakur
Effort 44/100

Shadows of Self
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 44/100

Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett
Effort 44/100

The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 44/100

Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
Effort 44/100

Ted Bundy
Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Effort 44/100

Jingo
Terry Pratchett
Effort 44/100

Snuff
Terry Pratchett
Effort 44/100

Small Favor
Jim Butcher
Effort 44/100

Passage to Dawn
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 44/100