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Books like Middlesex 2002
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 Middlesex
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Cavedweller 1998Also earnest, grave and prestige
Garden State 1992Also grave, earnest and prestige
The inheritance of loss 2005Also earnest, grave and prestige
Red at the Bone 2019Also earnest, grave and contemplative
The Green Knight 1993Also grave, earnest and prestige
The Gathering 2007Also prestige and contemplative
The Love of a Good Woman 1998Also earnest and prestige
Reading Lolita in Tehran 2003Also earnest, grave and prestige
The same feel, in other forms
Albums
- Trouble Will Find Me 2013Also earnest, grave and character-led
- U.F.O.F. 2019Also earnest, grave and character-led
- Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Films
Hoop Dreams 1994Also earnest, grave and contemplative
SoulMate 2016Also grave and earnest
Five Easy Pieces 1970Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Series
Olive Kitteridge 2014Also earnest, contemplative and grave
Colin in Black and White 2021Also earnest and grave
Treme 2010Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Games
Wanda: A Beautiful Apocalypse 2016Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Leila 2025Also earnest, grave and character-led
One Dreamer 2022Also earnest, grave and character-led
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