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Books like This One Summer 2014
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 This One Summer
Books closest to This One Summer
Normal People 2018Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
King and the Dragonflies 2020Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
Like water 2017Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
All Boys Aren't Blue 2020Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
Hunting and Gathering 2006Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Little fish 2018Also earnest, classical in form and contemporary
Piecing Me Together 2017Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Memorial 2020Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Hood 1995Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
Girl in translation 2010Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
Everything on a Waffle 2001Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Lab Girl 2016Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Passion Fish 1992Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Good Will Hunting 1997Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
Central Station 1998Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
Series
Naomi Osaka 2021Also contemporary, earnest and grave
March Comes In Like a Lion 2016Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
Normal People 2020Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
Albums
- Nightflight 2012Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
- Tigerlily 1995Also earnest, classical in form and grave
- Jackson Browne / Saturate Before Using 1972Also earnest, classical in form and grave
Games
Leila 2025Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Deer & Boy 2026Also contemporary, earnest and grave
Wanda: A Beautiful Apocalypse 2016Also earnest, contemporary and grave
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