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Books like The Kite Runner 2003
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 Kite Runner
Books closest to The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2009Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Prince of Tides 1986Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Mornings in Jenin 2008Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Storia della bambina perduta 2000Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Wild Swans 1989Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Kitchen God's Wife 1991Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1981Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The Siege 2001Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Fountains of Silence 2019Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Saints and Villains 1998Also earnest, grave and classical in form
When a crocodile eats the sun 2007Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Twelve O'Clock High 1949Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Judas and the Black Messiah 2021Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Aces High 1976Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Series
Titanic 2012Also grave, earnest and classical in form
El Inmortal: Gangs of Madrid 2022Also grave, earnest and classical in form
The New Look 2024Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Albums
- Hamartia 2017Also grave, earnest and classical in form
- Ten 1991Also earnest, grave and classical in form
- The X Factor 1995Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Games
Peacemaker: Bloody Emperor 2026Also grave, earnest and overwhelming
The Walking Dead: The Final Season 2018Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Stela 2019Also grave and earnest
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