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 1969–2016
Dubliners
James Joyce
Effort 53/100
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Effort 53/100
Lisey's Story
Stephen King
Effort 53/100
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Effort 53/100
My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
Effort 53/100
Dreamcatcher
Stephen King
Effort 53/100
The Code Book
Simon Singh
Effort 53/100
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
Effort 53/100
The Behavior Operations Manual
Chase Hughes
Effort 53/100
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
Effort 53/100
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
Effort 53/100
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
Effort 53/100
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
Effort 53/100
Robots and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Effort 53/100
The End
Lemony Snicket
Effort 53/100
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 53/100
The Penultimate Peril
Lemony Snicket
Effort 53/100
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
Effort 53/100
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Effort 53/100
Arrowsmith
Sinclair Lewis
Effort 53/100
Martin Dressler
Steven Millhauser
Effort 53/100
Claudius the God
Robert Graves
Effort 53/100
The Unwinding
George Packer
Effort 53/100
Masscult and Midcult
Dwight Macdonald
Effort 53/100
Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips
Effort 53/100
The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford
Effort 53/100
The Stammering Century
Gilbert Seldes
Effort 53/100
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Effort 54/100
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
Effort 54/100
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Effort 54/100
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Effort 54/100
The Plague
Albert Camus
Effort 54/100
Restore Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 54/100
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Effort 54/100
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 54/100
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak
Effort 54/100
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Effort 54/100
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Effort 54/100
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
Effort 54/100
Paul Klee
Carolyn Lanchner
Effort 54/100
Faust: Part 1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Effort 54/100
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Effort 54/100
The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
Effort 54/100
The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice
Effort 54/100
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 54/100
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
Effort 54/100
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Effort 54/100
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
Effort 54/100
