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 2353–2400
The White Album
Joan Didion
Effort 66/100
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Effort 66/100
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Effort 66/100
Both Flesh and Not
David Foster Wallace
Effort 66/100
Spec Ops
William H. McRaven
Effort 66/100
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Effort 67/100
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
Effort 67/100
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
Effort 67/100
Feminine Psychology
Karen Horney
Effort 67/100
Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
José Rizal
Effort 67/100
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
Effort 67/100
Inheritance
Christopher Paolini
Effort 67/100
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Effort 67/100
Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
Effort 67/100
Stone of Tears
Terry Goodkind
Effort 67/100
Drums of Autumn
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 67/100
The Toll
Neal Shusterman
Effort 67/100
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
Effort 67/100
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Effort 67/100
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Effort 67/100
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Effort 67/100
The Famished Road
Ben Okri
Effort 67/100
Humboldt's Gift
Saul Bellow
Effort 67/100
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
Effort 67/100
Mao II
Don DeLillo
Effort 67/100
Murderland
Caroline Fraser
Effort 67/100
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Effort 68/100
Beyond Good & Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Effort 68/100
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Effort 68/100
Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 68/100
The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan
Effort 68/100
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Effort 68/100
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Effort 68/100
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Effort 68/100
The Terror
Dan Simmons
Effort 68/100
Grendel
John Gardner
Effort 68/100
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Effort 68/100
Tiamat's Wrath
James S. A. Corey
Effort 68/100
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
Effort 68/100
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Effort 69/100
Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence
Effort 69/100
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Effort 69/100
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Effort 69/100
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
Aurélien Géron
Effort 69/100
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Effort 69/100
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Effort 69/100
The Sea
John Banville
Effort 69/100
The Loser
Thomas Bernhard
Effort 69/100
