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 2305–2352
Tehanu
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 64/100
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Effort 64/100
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
Effort 64/100
London Fields
Martin Amis
Effort 64/100
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
Effort 64/100
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Effort 65/100
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Effort 65/100
The Odyssey
Homer
Effort 65/100
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Effort 65/100
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
Gerard J. Tortora, Bryan H. Derrickson
Effort 65/100
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Effort 65/100
The Witching Hour
Anne Rice
Effort 65/100
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Effort 65/100
Brisingr
Christopher Paolini
Effort 65/100
Wizard and Glass
Stephen King
Effort 65/100
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Effort 65/100
David Copperfield (Tor Classics)
Charles Dickens
Effort 65/100
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 65/100
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Effort 65/100
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Erwin Kreyszig
Effort 65/100
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Effort 65/100
King of Scars
Leigh Bardugo
Effort 65/100
Pedro Páramo
Juan Rulfo
Effort 65/100
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Effort 65/100
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Effort 65/100
Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Effort 65/100
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
Effort 65/100
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Effort 65/100
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
Effort 65/100
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer
Effort 65/100
Dragon's Teeth
Upton Sinclair
Effort 65/100
Searches and Seizures
Stanley Elkin
Effort 65/100
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick
Effort 65/100
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Effort 66/100
Wicked
Gregory Maguire
Effort 66/100
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Effort 66/100
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
Effort 66/100
The Antecedents of Self-Esteem
Stanley Coopersmith
Effort 66/100
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Effort 66/100
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
Effort 66/100
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lionel Shriver
Effort 66/100
One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
Effort 66/100
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Effort 66/100
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Effort 66/100
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Effort 66/100
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace
Effort 66/100
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 66/100
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
Effort 66/100
