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 1825–1872

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Effort 50/100
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Effort 50/100
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Effort 50/100
Circe
Madeline Miller
Effort 50/100
Maus I
Art Spiegelman
Effort 50/100
Contact
Carl Sagan
Effort 50/100
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Effort 50/100
Needful Things
Stephen King
Effort 50/100
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Effort 50/100
The Lost World
Michael Crichton
Effort 50/100
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Effort 50/100
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Effort 50/100
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Effort 50/100
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Effort 50/100
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
Effort 50/100
History of the Filipino People
Teodoro A. Agoncillo
Effort 50/100
Roots
Alex Haley
Effort 50/100
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Effort 50/100
When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté
Effort 50/100
Mathematics for Class 10
R. D. Sharma
Effort 50/100
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Effort 50/100
Duma Key
Stephen King
Effort 50/100
The Setting Sun
Osamu Dazai
Effort 50/100
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Effort 50/100
Neverseen
Shannon Messenger
Effort 50/100
The Talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub
Effort 50/100
Native Son
Richard Wright
Effort 50/100
King's Cage
Victoria Aveyard
Effort 50/100
Library of Souls
Ransom Riggs
Effort 50/100
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Effort 50/100
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
Effort 50/100
Thud!
Terry Pratchett
Effort 50/100
The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wouk
Effort 50/100
Battle Ground
Jim Butcher
Effort 50/100
Skin Game
Jim Butcher
Effort 50/100
The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
Effort 50/100
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
Effort 50/100
Gods and Generals
Jeff Shaara
Effort 50/100
Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould
Effort 50/100
Elbow Room
James Alan McPherson
Effort 50/100
Changing My Mind
Zadie Smith
Effort 50/100
The Magic Kingdom
Stanley Elkin
Effort 50/100
Positively Fifth Street
James McManus
Effort 50/100
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Effort 51/100
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Effort 51/100
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Effort 51/100
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 51/100
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Effort 51/100

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