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Books like True grit. 1969
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 True grit.
Books closest to True grit.
Bud, Not Buddy 1994Also classical in form
True Grit 1968Also resolved
A Restless Truth 2022Also classical in form
Johnny and the Bomb 1996Also classical in form
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 2000Also classical in form
Busman's honeymoon 1937Also classical in form and resolved
A Red Herring Without Mustard 2011Also classical in form
The Whipping Boy 1986Also classical in form and resolved
Unnatural Death 1927Also classical in form and resolved
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 2014Also classical in form and resolved
Speaking from Among the Bones 2012Also classical in form
Have his carcase 1932Also classical in form and resolved
The same feel, in other forms
Films
The Scalphunters 1968Also classical in form
La Traversée de Paris 1956Also classical in form
The Lady Vanishes 1938Also classical in form and resolved
Albums
- Chickaboom! 2020Also resolved and classical in form
- Five Dollar Bill 2002Also resolved
- Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs) 2009Also classical in form
Series
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders 1996Also classical in form
Stonehouse 2023Also classical in form
The Apothecary Diaries 2023Also classical in form
Games
Werewolves Within 2016Also resolved and classical in form
Bad North 2018Also resolved
Indigo Park 2024Also classical in form
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