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Books like Blood Meridian 1985
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 Blood Meridian
Books closest to Blood Meridian
Kaputt 1946Also bleak, grave and epic
The Underground Railroad 2000Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lun 1915Also grave, prestige and epic
Dispatches 1977Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
November 1918 1948Also grave, epic and prestige
American Tabloid 1995Also bleak, grave and epic
天堂蒜薹之歌 (Tiantang suan tai zhi ge) 1988Also epic, overwhelming and prestige
Nord 1635Also grave, bleak and prestige
The March 2005Also grave, epic and bleak
A Brief History of Seven Killings 2014Also grave and epic
Tree of Smoke 2007Also epic, bleak and grave
Beowulf 2020Also epic, grave and prestige
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Titus 1999Also bleak, epic and overwhelming
The Battle of Algiers 1966Also grave, bleak and prestige
Punishment Park 1971Also grave, bleak and prestige
Albums
- Plurima Mortis Imago 2005Also bleak, grave and prestige
- Dusk and Her Embrace 1996Also grave, bleak and epic
- Scenes From Hell 2010Also grave, bleak and prestige
Series
Devilman Crybaby 2018Also bleak, grave and epic
Lovecraft Country 2020Also grave, bleak and overwhelming
Games
Blasphemous 2019Also bleak, grave and epic
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2019Also grave, bleak and demanding
Grime 2021Also grave, bleak and epic
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