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 1681–1728
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
Effort 46/100
Identical
Ellen Hopkins
Effort 46/100
Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett
Effort 46/100
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Douglas Adams
Effort 46/100
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Effort 46/100
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Effort 46/100
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Effort 46/100
Making Money
Terry Pratchett
Effort 46/100
The Dangerous Gift
Tui T. Sutherland
Effort 46/100
Fear and Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 46/100
The Outsider
Stephen King
Effort 46/100
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Effort 46/100
Cold Days
Jim Butcher
Effort 46/100
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Effort 46/100
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
Effort 46/100
Boy's Life
Robert McCammon
Effort 46/100
Blue Highways
William Least Heat-Moon
Effort 46/100
The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
Effort 46/100
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan
Effort 46/100
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Effort 46/100
The Secret Life of Groceries
Benjamin Lorr
Effort 46/100
Changing Places
David Lodge
Effort 46/100
The Pencil
Henry Petroski
Effort 46/100
In This Our Life
Ellen Glasgow
Effort 46/100
Dr. No
Percival Everett
Effort 46/100
The Monopolists
Mary Pilon
Effort 46/100
Journey in the Dark
Martin Flavin
Effort 46/100
Technology, Management, and Society
Peter F. Drucker
Effort 46/100
In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides
Effort 46/100
The Franchiser
Stanley Elkin
Effort 46/100
The Story of China
Michael Wood
Effort 46/100
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 47/100
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Effort 47/100
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Effort 47/100
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
Effort 47/100
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Effort 47/100
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
Effort 47/100
Principles of Marketing
Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong
Effort 47/100
11/22/63
Stephen King
Effort 47/100
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Effort 47/100
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Effort 47/100
Christine
Stephen King
Effort 47/100
Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
Effort 47/100
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Effort 47/100
Jung's Map of the Soul
Murray Stein
Effort 47/100
Find Me
André Aciman
Effort 47/100
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Effort 47/100
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Effort 47/100
