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 1921–1968
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 52/100
Breakthrough Advertising
Eugene M. Schwartz
Effort 52/100
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Effort 52/100
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Effort 52/100
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
Effort 52/100
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Effort 52/100
2001
Arthur C. Clarke
Effort 52/100
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Effort 52/100
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
Effort 52/100
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
Effort 52/100
Flashback
Shannon Messenger
Effort 52/100
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Effort 52/100
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
Effort 52/100
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Effort 52/100
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Effort 52/100
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King
Effort 52/100
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Effort 52/100
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Stephen King
Effort 52/100
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
Effort 52/100
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
Effort 52/100
Maus II
Art Spiegelman
Effort 52/100
The Cyberiad
Stanisław Lem
Effort 52/100
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
Effort 52/100
Blood Canticle
Anne Rice
Effort 52/100
The Frontiersmen
Allan W. Eckert
Effort 52/100
Homicide
David Simon
Effort 52/100
The Unsettling of America
Wendell Berry
Effort 52/100
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
Effort 52/100
Basin and Range
John McPhee
Effort 52/100
The Siege of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
Effort 52/100
Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon
Effort 52/100
Ghetto at the Center of the World
Gordon Mathews
Effort 52/100
Pax
Tom Holland
Effort 52/100
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter
Effort 52/100
The Meadow
James Galvin
Effort 52/100
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Effort 53/100
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Effort 53/100
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Effort 53/100
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Effort 53/100
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Effort 53/100
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Effort 53/100
Flatland
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Effort 53/100
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Effort 53/100
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Effort 53/100
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Effort 53/100
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Effort 53/100
The Waste Lands
Stephen King
Effort 53/100
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Effort 53/100
