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 1873–1920
A Court of Wings and Ruin
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 51/100
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Effort 51/100
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
Effort 51/100
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
Effort 51/100
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Effort 51/100
World War Z
Max Brooks
Effort 51/100
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Effort 51/100
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
Effort 51/100
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Effort 51/100
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Effort 51/100
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Effort 51/100
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Effort 51/100
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Effort 51/100
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Effort 51/100
Blindness
José Saramago
Effort 51/100
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh
Effort 51/100
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Effort 51/100
The Symposium
Plato
Effort 51/100
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
Effort 51/100
The Color of Water
James McBride
Effort 51/100
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Malinda Lo
Effort 51/100
Ruin and Rising
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 51/100
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Effort 51/100
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Effort 51/100
At Home
Bill Bryson
Effort 51/100
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
Effort 51/100
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara
Effort 51/100
QED
Richard P. Feynman
Effort 51/100
Whipping Girl
Julia Serano
Effort 51/100
Money
Martin Amis
Effort 51/100
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Effort 51/100
Life and Times of Michael K
J. M. Coetzee
Effort 51/100
Couples
John Updike
Effort 51/100
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
Effort 51/100
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Effort 51/100
The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 51/100
The Journalist and the Murderer
Janet Malcolm
Effort 51/100
Coming into the Country
John McPhee
Effort 51/100
A Summons to Memphis
Peter Taylor
Effort 51/100
River Town
Peter Hessler
Effort 51/100
Staying On
Paul Scott
Effort 51/100
No More Tears
Gardiner Harris
Effort 51/100
The Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara
Effort 51/100
Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Oscar Hijuelos
Effort 51/100
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Effort 52/100
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Effort 52/100
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Effort 52/100
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Effort 52/100
