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 2401–2448
The Names
Don DeLillo
Effort 69/100
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Effort 70/100
Discrete Mathematics with Applications
Susanna S. Epp
Effort 70/100
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
Effort 70/100
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Effort 70/100
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Effort 70/100
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
Effort 70/100
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Effort 70/100
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Effort 70/100
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
Effort 70/100
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Effort 70/100
Blackwood Farm
Anne Rice
Effort 70/100
The Fiery Cross
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 70/100
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
Effort 70/100
Guard of Honor
James Gould Cozzens
Effort 70/100
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Effort 70/100
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 71/100
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Effort 71/100
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 71/100
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Effort 71/100
Permutation City
Greg Egan
Effort 71/100
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
Effort 71/100
G.
John Berger
Effort 71/100
Oblivion
David Foster Wallace
Effort 71/100
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Effort 72/100
A Storm of Swords
George R. R. Martin
Effort 72/100
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
Effort 72/100
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Effort 72/100
Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas
Effort 72/100
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Effort 72/100
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Effort 72/100
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
Effort 72/100
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Diana Gabaldon
Effort 72/100
King Henry IV Part 1
William Shakespeare
Effort 72/100
Metamagical Themas
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Effort 72/100
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor
Effort 72/100
Milkman
Anna Burns
Effort 72/100
A Fable
William Faulkner
Effort 72/100
The Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
Effort 73/100
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
Effort 73/100
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Effort 73/100
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
Effort 73/100
A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
Effort 73/100
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon
Effort 73/100
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Effort 74/100
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Effort 74/100
Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King
Effort 74/100
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Effort 74/100
