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 2449–2496
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
Effort 74/100
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Effort 74/100
The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace
Effort 74/100
Selected Non-Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
Effort 74/100
George Mills
Stanley Elkin
Effort 74/100
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Effort 75/100
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Effort 75/100
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Effort 75/100
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
Effort 75/100
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Effort 75/100
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Effort 75/100
Foundations of Behavioral Research
Fred N. Kerlinger, Howard B. Lee
Effort 75/100
Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
Effort 75/100
Suttree
Cormac McCarthy
Effort 75/100
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Effort 76/100
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Effort 76/100
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Effort 76/100
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Effort 76/100
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Effort 76/100
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Effort 76/100
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
Effort 76/100
Diaspora
Greg Egan
Effort 76/100
The Republic
Plato
Effort 77/100
Words of Radiance
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 77/100
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
Effort 77/100
Everything and More
David Foster Wallace
Effort 77/100
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Effort 78/100
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Effort 78/100
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Effort 78/100
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Effort 79/100
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Effort 79/100
Shakespeare's Sonnets
William Shakespeare
Effort 79/100
Demons
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Effort 79/100
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
Effort 79/100
House Made of Dawn
N. Scott Momaday
Effort 79/100
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Effort 80/100
The Politics
Aristotle
Effort 80/100
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Effort 80/100
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu
Effort 80/100
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Effort 80/100
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Effort 80/100
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
Effort 80/100
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Effort 80/100
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
Effort 80/100
Shadow Country
Peter Matthiessen
Effort 80/100
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Effort 81/100
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Effort 82/100
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
Effort 82/100
