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 2065–2112
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Effort 56/100
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Effort 56/100
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Effort 56/100
Concepts of Physics 1
H. C. Verma
Effort 56/100
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Effort 56/100
Sula
Toni Morrison
Effort 56/100
Heir of Fire
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 56/100
Demian
Hermann Hesse
Effort 56/100
Man and His Symbols
Carl Gustav Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz
Effort 56/100
Frames of Mind
Howard Gardner
Effort 56/100
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon
Effort 56/100
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Effort 56/100
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange
Effort 56/100
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Effort 56/100
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Effort 56/100
1491
Charles C. Mann
Effort 56/100
Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Effort 56/100
Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
Effort 56/100
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Effort 56/100
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Effort 56/100
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Effort 56/100
The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich
Effort 56/100
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever
Effort 56/100
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
Effort 56/100
The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough
Effort 56/100
Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively
Effort 56/100
Rabbit Redux
John Updike
Effort 56/100
Independence Day
Richard Ford
Effort 56/100
Players
Don DeLillo
Effort 56/100
The Dick Gibson Show
Stanley Elkin
Effort 56/100
The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo
Effort 56/100
It
Stephen King
Effort 57/100
1984
George Orwell
Effort 57/100
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Effort 57/100
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling
Effort 57/100
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Effort 57/100
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Effort 57/100
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Effort 57/100
Kama Sutra
Vatsyāyana
Effort 57/100
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
Effort 57/100
The Stand
Stephen King
Effort 57/100
Emma
Jane Austen
Effort 57/100
Chemistry
Theodore L. Brown, H. Eugene LeMay Jr., Bruce E. Bursten, Catherine Murphy, Patrick Woodward, Matthew W. Stoltzfus
Effort 57/100
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Effort 57/100
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley, Malcolm X
Effort 57/100
The Lords of Easy Money
Christopher Leonard
Effort 57/100
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Effort 57/100
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Effort 57/100
