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Books like The War of the Worlds
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 War of the Worlds
Books closest to The War of the Worlds
October 2017Also epic, grave and plot-driven
The Forever War 1974Also epic, grave and bleak
Jerusalem 2011Also epic and grave
The Bomber Mafia 2021Also epic and grave
She Who Became the Sun 2021Also epic and grave
Beowulf 2020Also epic and grave
Gene 2005Also epic and grave
River of smoke 2011Also epic and grave
Memoria del fuego 1982Also epic and plot-driven
The Doll's House 1991Also epic and grave
The Story of the Jews 2017Also epic and grave
Lawrence in Arabia 2013Also epic and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Johnny Corncob 1973Also epic, grave and plot-driven
Curse of the Golden Flower 2006Also grave and epic
Australia 2008Also epic and grave
Albums
- Gothic Kabbalah 2007Also epic and grave
- Beneath This Burning Shoreline 2010Also grave
- Wrecking Ball 2012Also epic and grave
Series
Alien: Earth 2025Also epic and grave
Battlestar Galactica 2003Also epic and grave
The Assassins 2024Also epic, grave and bleak
Games
BioShock Infinite 2013Also grave, epic and plot-driven
Dishonored 2 2016Also grave
Dishonored 2012Also grave, plot-driven and bleak
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