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 1777–1824
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
Effort 48/100
City of Lost Souls
Cassandra Clare
Effort 48/100
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Effort 48/100
Turn Coat
Jim Butcher
Effort 48/100
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Effort 48/100
Ghost Story
Jim Butcher
Effort 48/100
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Anne Tyler
Effort 48/100
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Effort 48/100
Streets of Laredo
Larry McMurtry
Effort 48/100
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
Effort 48/100
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Effort 48/100
The Fermata
Nicholson Baker
Effort 48/100
The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Effort 48/100
Last Orders
Graham Swift
Effort 48/100
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Roger Williams
Effort 48/100
Moo
Jane Smiley
Effort 48/100
The Old Devils
Kingsley Amis
Effort 48/100
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 48/100
A Furious Sky
Eric Jay Dolin
Effort 48/100
Adventures of a Computational Explorer
Stephen Wolfram
Effort 48/100
Mrs. Ted Bliss
Stanley Elkin
Effort 48/100
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J. K. Rowling
Effort 49/100
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
Effort 49/100
Onyx Storm
Rebecca Yarros
Effort 49/100
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
Effort 49/100
Under the Dome
Stephen King
Effort 49/100
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Effort 49/100
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
Effort 49/100
Danse Macabre
Stephen King
Effort 49/100
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
Effort 49/100
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Effort 49/100
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Effort 49/100
The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare
Effort 49/100
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser
Effort 49/100
Feet of Clay
Terry Pratchett
Effort 49/100
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
Effort 49/100
Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
Effort 49/100
Jo's Boys
Louisa May Alcott
Effort 49/100
Changes
Jim Butcher
Effort 49/100
The Last Continent
Terry Pratchett
Effort 49/100
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Effort 49/100
Blood Communion
Anne Rice
Effort 49/100
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Effort 49/100
The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis
Effort 49/100
Dynasty
Tom Holland
Effort 49/100
Human Smoke
Nicholson Baker
Effort 49/100
The Making of the English Landscape
W. G. Hoskins
Effort 49/100
The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
Effort 50/100
