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 2497–2536
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Effort 82/100
Omensetter's Luck
William H. Gass
Effort 82/100
Girl With Curious Hair
David Foster Wallace
Effort 82/100
Behave
Robert M. Sapolsky
Effort 83/100
Physics
Aristotle
Effort 83/100
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Effort 83/100
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
Effort 83/100
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Effort 83/100
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Effort 84/100
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Effort 84/100
Possession
A. S. Byatt
Effort 84/100
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
Effort 84/100
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
Effort 84/100
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert
Effort 85/100
J R
William Gaddis
Effort 85/100
Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar
Effort 86/100
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Effort 87/100
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Effort 87/100
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
Effort 87/100
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Effort 87/100
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Effort 88/100
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Effort 88/100
Light in August
William Faulkner
Effort 88/100
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Effort 90/100
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
Effort 90/100
Mason & Dixon
Thomas Pynchon
Effort 90/100
Fate, Time, and Language
David Foster Wallace
Effort 90/100
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
Effort 91/100
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Effort 92/100
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Effort 92/100
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Effort 92/100
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Effort 92/100
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Effort 93/100
The Tunnel
William H. Gass
Effort 93/100
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Effort 95/100
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
Karl Marx
Effort 98/100
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Effort 98/100
Women and Men
Joseph McElroy
Effort 98/100
The Principia
Sir Isaac Newton
Effort 100/100
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
Effort 100/100
