If you liked
Books like Big Magic 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 Big Magic
Books closest to Big Magic
The Art of Possibility 2000Also contemporary, spare and warm
The Light We Carry 2022Also contemporary, character-led and spare
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 2018Also spare, contemporary and character-led
Four Thousand Weeks 2021Also spare, contemporary and character-led
A Writing Kind Of Day 2005Also spare, character-led and contemporary
The way of the superior man 1997Also spare, character-led and contemporary
Big Friendship 2020Also contemporary, spare and character-led
Religion for Atheists 2012Also spare, contemporary and character-led
Religion for Atheists 2012Also spare, contemporary and character-led
Joyful 2018Also spare, contemporary and warm
Relatively Speaking 1999Also spare, character-led and warm
Not a Box 2006Also contemporary, warm and spare
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Radio Star 2007Also character-led, contemporary and classical in form
She and Her Cat: Everything Flows 2016Also contemporary, spare and warm
Oobi 2000Also warm, spare and contemporary
Films
Jo's Turn 2025Also spare, contemporary and warm
One Night 2026Also contemporary, spare and character-led
Porridge Monster 2026Also contemporary, character-led and spare
Games
Pluviophile 2020Also contemporary, character-led and warm
Sono 2020Also contemporary, warm and spare
Refunct 2015Also contemporary, warm and spare
Albums
- Sweet Thief 2026Also character-led, classical in form and spare
- THE VALOUR HOUR 2026Also character-led, spare and contemporary
- I Could Be The Only One 2010Also character-led, contemporary and classical in form
Rate a few things and every title shows the odds you’ll like it, from your own taste.
Find your taste
