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Books like Misery 1978
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 Misery
Books closest to Misery
Lying in wait 2016Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
Cujo 1981Also grave, classical in form and bleak
Jackknife 2025Also grave, intimate and classical in form
Heart-Shaped Box 2007Also classical in form, bleak and grave
Holly 2023Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
Daisy Darker 2022Also grave, intimate and classical in form
A simple plan 1993Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
One by One 2020Also classical in form, contemporary and intimate
Passage 2001Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
Galveston 2010Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
Hostage 2021Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
Our house 2018Also classical in form, grave and contemporary
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Misery 1990Also intimate, classical in form and grave
Sick 2022Also intimate, contemporary and grave
Black Rock 2012Also intimate, grave and classical in form
Series
Burn the House Down 2023Also grave, classical in form and contemporary
Dirty John 2018Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
Connect 2022Also grave, contemporary and bleak
Albums
Games
Into the Dead 2012Also grave, contemporary and classical in form
Intruders: Hide and Seek 2019Also contemporary, grave and classical in form
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