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Books like Beloved 1987
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 Beloved
Books closest to Beloved
A Mercy 1998Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
Under the Volcano 1947Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
Go Tell It on the Mountain 1952Also earnest, grave and prestige
Juneteenth 1999Also grave, earnest and contemplative
A Death in the Family 1957Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
A Ghost in the Throat 2020Also grave, overwhelming and earnest
소년이 온다 2014Also grave, overwhelming and earnest
A gesture life 1999Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Fugitive Pieces 1996Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Ceremony 1977Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Owls Do Cry 1957Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Heart of Darkness 1899Also grave, earnest and prestige
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Breaking the Waves 1996Also overwhelming, grave and prestige
Ivan's Childhood 1962Also grave, prestige and earnest
Harakiri 1962Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
Series
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2025Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Aoi Bungaku Series 2009Also grave, earnest and prestige
Angels in America 2003Also overwhelming, grave and prestige
Games
Désiré 2016Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Gerda: A Flame in Winter 2022Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
The Stillness of the Wind 2019Also grave, earnest and contemplative
Albums
- False Lankum 2023Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
- Last 2011Also grave, earnest and contemplative
- The Terror 2013Also grave, earnest and character-led
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