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Books like Kokuhaku 2008
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Kokuhaku
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The Tesseract 1998Also grave, contemporary and bleak
A Spark of Light 2018Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Sadie 2018Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Marabou Stork Nightmares 1995Also bleak, contemporary and grave
Dark Places 2009Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Sleepyhead 2001Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Deadkidsongs 2001Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Crime 2008Also contemporary, grave and bleak
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead 2007Also contemporary, grave and bleak
I Saw the Devil 2010Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Athena 2022Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Series
Strangers from Hell 2019Also contemporary, grave and bleak
Karma 2025Also grave, contemporary and bleak
The Investigator: A British Crime Story 2016Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Albums
- Ride the Lightning 1984Also grave, contemporary and bleak
- Arise 1991Also grave, bleak and contemporary
- The Great Southern Trendkill 1996Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Games
Dark Echo 2015Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Thumper 2016Also overwhelming, grave and contemporary
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