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Books like Midnight's Children 1981
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 Midnight's Children
Books closest to Midnight's Children
Porius 1951Also prestige, epic and meticulous
The Old Drift 2019Also epic, prestige and open-ended
The Kingdom 2017Also epic and prestige
Cien años de soledad 1967Also epic, prestige and meticulous
Terra nostra 1975Also epic, prestige and grave
The skin of our teeth 1942Also epic and prestige
Beowulf 2020Also epic, prestige and grave
Cloud Atlas 2004Also epic, grave and meticulous
Gravity's Rainbow 1973Also epic, prestige and open-ended
Texaco 1992Also prestige and meticulous
Die Blechtrommel 1959Also prestige
The Archive of Alternate Endings 2019Also prestige, epic and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Megalopolis 2024Also epic, prestige and grave
The Tin Drum 1979Also prestige, epic and meticulous
King Lear 1988Also prestige, epic and open-ended
Albums
- Odessa 1969Also epic and meticulous
- Dies Irae 1996Also epic, prestige and grave
- Eliogabalus 1990Also prestige, epic and grave
Series
Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980Also prestige, grave and meticulous
Westworld 2016Also epic, grave and open-ended
La Commune (Paris, 1871) 2000Also prestige and grave
Games
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