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 2257–2304
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Effort 62/100
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Effort 62/100
When Rabbit Howls
Truddi Chase
Effort 62/100
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Effort 62/100
Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 62/100
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Effort 62/100
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Effort 62/100
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Effort 62/100
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Effort 62/100
Voyager
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 62/100
Praisesong for the Widow
Paule Marshall
Effort 62/100
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
Effort 62/100
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Effort 62/100
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Effort 62/100
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
Effort 62/100
Ironweed
William Kennedy
Effort 62/100
The Promise
Damon Galgut
Effort 62/100
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Effort 63/100
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Effort 63/100
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Effort 63/100
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Effort 63/100
Clean Code
Robert C. Martin
Effort 63/100
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Effort 63/100
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Effort 63/100
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins
Effort 63/100
Tower of Dawn
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 63/100
Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Kenneth H. Rosen
Effort 63/100
Becoming Attached
Robert Karen
Effort 63/100
The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice
Effort 63/100
Persepolis Rising
James S. A. Corey
Effort 63/100
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Effort 63/100
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Anne Rice
Effort 63/100
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
Effort 63/100
The Aleph and Other Stories, 1933-1969
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 63/100
Phantom
Terry Goodkind
Effort 63/100
Speedboat
Renata Adler
Effort 63/100
Rabbit Is Rich
John Updike
Effort 63/100
The Iliad
Homer
Effort 64/100
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Effort 64/100
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Effort 64/100
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Effort 64/100
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson
Effort 64/100
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
Effort 64/100
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Effort 64/100
Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare
Effort 64/100
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Effort 64/100
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Effort 64/100
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton
Effort 64/100
