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Books like The Color Purple 1976
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 The Color Purple
Books closest to The Color Purple
A gesture life 1999Also earnest, grave and prestige
Under the Volcano 1947Also earnest, grave and prestige
Death of a Salesman 1940Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
Ceremony 1977Also earnest, grave and contemplative
L'étrange disparition d'Esme Lennox 2009Also earnest, grave and prestige- Partita 2026Also earnest, grave and prestige
Go Tell It on the Mountain 1952Also earnest, grave and prestige
Owls Do Cry 1957Also earnest, grave and prestige
Les mots pour le dire 1975Also earnest, grave and prestige
Memorial Drive 2020Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
Intruder in the Dust 1948Also earnest, grave and prestige
Requiem for a Nun 1950Also grave, earnest and prestige
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Flee 2021Also earnest, grave and prestige
Cobain: Montage of Heck 2015Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
#AnneFrank. Parallel Stories 2019Also earnest, grave and prestige
Albums
- Last 2011Also earnest, grave and contemplative
- False Lankum 2023Also earnest, grave and prestige
- Los ángeles 2017Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Games
Désiré 2016Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Gerda: A Flame in Winter 2022Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
My Child: Lebensborn 2018Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Series
When They See Us 2019Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2025Also earnest, grave and contemplative
My Brilliant Friend 2018Also earnest, grave and prestige
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