Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Published 2013 · 65,000 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Feminist Literature, Nonfiction
How hard is Lean In to read?
Lean In scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 20 out of 100
- Accessible business vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 20 out of 100
- Abstraction: 22 out of 100
- Practical advice with research backing.
- Information density: 35 out of 100
- Moderate. Personal stories and research.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Direct topical chapters.
- Symbolic density: 80 out of 100
- 'Leaning in' as a metaphor for assertiveness.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Earnest, motivational tone.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Clear advice throughout.
- Structural complexity: 12 out of 100
- Eleven topical chapters.
How Lean In is regarded
Lean In holds a literary regard score of 36 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.