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 2017–2064
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
Effort 54/100
Hogfather
Terry Pratchett
Effort 54/100
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Effort 54/100
Wise Blood
Flannery O'Connor
Effort 54/100
The Pillars of Creation
Terry Goodkind
Effort 54/100
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Effort 54/100
Peace Talks
Jim Butcher
Effort 54/100
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Effort 54/100
The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
Effort 54/100
The End of the End of the Earth
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 54/100
The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata
Effort 54/100
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Effort 55/100
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Effort 55/100
Forbidden Knowledge
Roger Shattuck
Effort 55/100
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
Effort 55/100
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Effort 55/100
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 55/100
The Fall
Albert Camus
Effort 55/100
Passing
Nella Larsen
Effort 55/100
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Effort 55/100
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 55/100
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Effort 55/100
Statistics for Management
Richard I. Levin, David S. Rubin
Effort 55/100
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
Effort 55/100
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Effort 55/100
The Passage
Justin Cronin
Effort 55/100
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Effort 55/100
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
Effort 55/100
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Effort 55/100
Lodestar
Shannon Messenger
Effort 55/100
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Effort 55/100
No Logo
Naomi Klein
Effort 55/100
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Effort 55/100
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Effort 55/100
Morning Star
Pierce Brown
Effort 55/100
There There
Tommy Orange
Effort 55/100
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
Effort 55/100
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 55/100
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle
Effort 55/100
Shadow of the Hegemon
Orson Scott Card
Effort 55/100
Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
Effort 55/100
Soul of the Fire
Terry Goodkind
Effort 55/100
Temple of the Winds
Terry Goodkind
Effort 55/100
Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
Effort 55/100
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker
Effort 55/100
The Edge of Sadness
Edwin O'Connor
Effort 55/100
The Sportswriter
Richard Ford
Effort 55/100
A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
Effort 56/100
