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 2113–2160
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
Effort 57/100
Shōgun
James Clavell
Effort 57/100
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Effort 57/100
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Effort 57/100
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
Effort 57/100
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Effort 57/100
India From Curzon to Nehru and After
Durga Das
Effort 57/100
Out of the Crisis
W. Edwards Deming
Effort 57/100
The Once and Future King
T. H. White
Effort 57/100
The Vampire Armand
Anne Rice
Effort 57/100
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
Effort 57/100
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Effort 57/100
Naked Empire
Terry Goodkind
Effort 57/100
The Gathering
Anne Enright
Effort 57/100
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey
Effort 57/100
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
Effort 57/100
Warlock
Oakley Hall
Effort 57/100
Advise and Consent
Allen Drury
Effort 57/100
Essays
George Orwell
Effort 57/100
Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Effort 57/100
Great Jones Street
Don DeLillo
Effort 57/100
Let Me Be Frank With You
Richard Ford
Effort 57/100
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Effort 58/100
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Effort 58/100
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Effort 58/100
Eldest
Christopher Paolini
Effort 58/100
Othello
William Shakespeare
Effort 58/100
An Autobiography
Mahatma Gandhi
Effort 58/100
Nightfall
Shannon Messenger
Effort 58/100
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Effort 58/100
The Nature of Things
Lucretius
Effort 58/100
The Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 58/100
Debt
David Graeber
Effort 58/100
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Effort 58/100
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
Effort 58/100
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Effort 58/100
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Effort 58/100
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Effort 58/100
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Effort 58/100
War Storm
Victoria Aveyard
Effort 58/100
Count Zero
William Gibson
Effort 58/100
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
Effort 58/100
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch
Effort 58/100
City of Heavenly Fire
Cassandra Clare
Effort 58/100
The Other Wind
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 58/100
Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
Effort 58/100
Julian
Gore Vidal
Effort 58/100
Rites of Passage
William Golding
Effort 58/100
