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 2161–2208

The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
Effort 58/100

The Finkler Question
Howard Jacobson
Effort 58/100

Something to Answer For
P. H. Newby
Effort 58/100

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Effort 59/100

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Effort 59/100

Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Effort 59/100

Queen of Shadows
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 59/100

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
John J. Murphy
Effort 59/100

The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Effort 59/100

Stellarlune
Shannon Messenger
Effort 59/100

Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Helen Joseph Armstrong
Effort 59/100

The Psychology of Money
Michael Argyle, Adrian Furnham
Effort 59/100

Python for Data Analysis
Wes McKinney
Effort 59/100

The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
Effort 59/100

The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Effort 59/100

Collapse
Jared Diamond
Effort 59/100

A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Effort 59/100

Imagine Me
Tahereh Mafi
Effort 59/100

Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
Effort 59/100

The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Effort 59/100

The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Effort 59/100

The Lost Metal
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 59/100

Blood of the Fold
Terry Goodkind
Effort 59/100

Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Effort 59/100

Blood and Gold
Anne Rice
Effort 59/100

The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
Effort 59/100

Chainfire
Terry Goodkind
Effort 59/100

The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
Effort 59/100

The Witches of Eastwick
John Updike
Effort 59/100

Augustus
John Williams
Effort 59/100

Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo
Effort 59/100

The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.
Robert Coover
Effort 59/100

Tinkers
Paul Harding
Effort 59/100

End Zone
Don DeLillo
Effort 59/100

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J. K. Rowling
Effort 60/100

East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Effort 60/100

Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Effort 60/100

Insomnia
Stephen King
Effort 60/100

Microbiology
Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case
Effort 60/100

American Gods
Neil Gaiman
Effort 60/100

The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Effort 60/100

A Court of Silver Flames
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 60/100

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 60/100

Babel
R. F. Kuang
Effort 60/100

The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Effort 60/100

Empire of Storms
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 60/100

Song of Susannah
Stephen King
Effort 60/100

Alone with You in the Ether
Olivie Blake
Effort 60/100