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 1585–1632
The Silent Blade
R. A. Salvatore
Effort 44/100
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Effort 44/100
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Effort 44/100
Breathing Lessons
Anne Tyler
Effort 44/100
One of Ours
Willa Cather
Effort 44/100
The Big Nowhere
James Ellroy
Effort 44/100
A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 44/100
The Magnificent Ambersons
Booth Tarkington
Effort 44/100
China
John Keay
Effort 44/100
The Late George Apley
John P. Marquand
Effort 44/100
Scarlet Sister Mary
Julia Peterkin
Effort 44/100
Lamb in His Bosom
Caroline Miller
Effort 44/100
Six Four
Hideo Yokoyama
Effort 44/100
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram
Effort 44/100
Imperial Twilight
Stephen R. Platt
Effort 44/100
A Walk in the Park
Kevin Fedarko
Effort 44/100
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Effort 45/100
I Fell in Love with Hope
Lancali
Effort 45/100
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
Effort 45/100
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Effort 45/100
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
Effort 45/100
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
Effort 45/100
Becoming Supernatural
Joe Dispenza
Effort 45/100
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Effort 45/100
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Effort 45/100
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Effort 45/100
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Effort 45/100
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Effort 45/100
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Effort 45/100
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Effort 45/100
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
Effort 45/100
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Effort 45/100
Crown of Midnight
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 45/100
Rose Madder
Stephen King
Effort 45/100
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts
Effort 45/100
The Law of Success
Napoleon Hill
Effort 45/100
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Effort 45/100
Pretty Girls
Karin Slaughter
Effort 45/100
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
Effort 45/100
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Effort 45/100
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Effort 45/100
Back to Eden
Jethro Kloss
Effort 45/100
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Douglas Adams
Effort 45/100
How It Feels to Float
Helena Fox
Effort 45/100
Revival
Stephen King
Effort 45/100
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
Effort 45/100
NOS4A2
Joe Hill
Effort 45/100
Rubicon
Tom Holland
Effort 45/100
