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 1633–1680
The Shepherd's Crown
Terry Pratchett
Effort 45/100
A Night in the Lonesome October
Roger Zelazny
Effort 45/100
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Effort 45/100
Apollo 13
Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Effort 45/100
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
Effort 45/100
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
Effort 45/100
Summer of Night
Dan Simmons
Effort 45/100
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
Effort 45/100
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley
Effort 45/100
Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
Effort 45/100
The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz
Effort 45/100
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
B. S. Johnson
Effort 45/100
The Reivers
William Faulkner
Effort 45/100
The Masters of Atlantis
Charles Portis
Effort 45/100
Shadows on the Rock
Willa Cather
Effort 45/100
Count Belisarius
Robert Graves
Effort 45/100
Great Plains
Ian Frazier
Effort 45/100
Coyote America
Dan Flores
Effort 45/100
Football
Chuck Klosterman
Effort 45/100
Persian Fire
Tom Holland
Effort 45/100
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow
Effort 46/100
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J. K. Rowling
Effort 46/100
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Effort 46/100
Games People Play
Eric Berne
Effort 46/100
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini
Effort 46/100
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Effort 46/100
Quiet
Susan Cain
Effort 46/100
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Effort 46/100
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Effort 46/100
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Effort 46/100
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
Effort 46/100
The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
Effort 46/100
Defy Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 46/100
Different Seasons
Stephen King
Effort 46/100
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Effort 46/100
Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi
Effort 46/100
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
Effort 46/100
MONEY Master the Game
Tony Robbins
Effort 46/100
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré
Effort 46/100
The Final Gambit
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Effort 46/100
Inkheart
Cornelia Funke
Effort 46/100
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Effort 46/100
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
Effort 46/100
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
Effort 46/100
Relativity
Albert Einstein
Effort 46/100
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Effort 46/100
Bunny
Mona Awad
Effort 46/100
Madame Curie
Eve Curie
Effort 46/100
