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 2209–2256
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
Paul Auster
Effort 60/100
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Effort 60/100
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Effort 60/100
Nemesis Games
James S. A. Corey
Effort 60/100
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Effort 60/100
Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville
Effort 60/100
Centennial
James A. Michener
Effort 60/100
Americana
Don DeLillo
Effort 60/100
The Information
Martin Amis
Effort 60/100
The Last Gentleman
Walker Percy
Effort 60/100
The War Against Cliché
Martin Amis
Effort 60/100
A Fan's Notes
Frederick Exley
Effort 60/100
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Effort 61/100
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Effort 61/100
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Effort 61/100
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Effort 61/100
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Effort 61/100
Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
Effort 61/100
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Effort 61/100
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Effort 61/100
Implementing Public Policy
George C. Edwards III
Effort 61/100
Blood of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski
Effort 61/100
Utopia
Thomas More
Effort 61/100
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Effort 61/100
JavaScript
David Flanagan
Effort 61/100
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Stieg Larsson
Effort 61/100
Another Country
James Baldwin
Effort 61/100
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Effort 61/100
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Effort 61/100
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Effort 61/100
Legacy
Shannon Messenger
Effort 61/100
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
Effort 61/100
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Effort 61/100
Endymion
Dan Simmons
Effort 61/100
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Effort 61/100
Confessor
Terry Goodkind
Effort 61/100
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
Effort 61/100
A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin
Effort 61/100
Eros the Bittersweet
Anne Carson
Effort 61/100
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Effort 62/100
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Effort 62/100
Fire & Blood
George R. R. Martin
Effort 62/100
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Effort 62/100
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Effort 62/100
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Effort 62/100
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Effort 62/100
The Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 62/100
The Great Hunt
Robert Jordan
Effort 62/100
