The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Published 2003 · 258 pages · 70,950 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Queen's Gambit to read?
The Queen's Gambit scores 26 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.