Stephen King · 1998
- What it is
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It stays with you · slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Crime Fantasy
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
Books similar to The Green Mile
Coming from The Green Mile? Start with The Fisherman, The book of lost things, Lincoln in the Bardo. 3 more below, each with why it fits.
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The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
It leaves you thinking · a secret waiting to be uncovered
The book of lost things
John Connolly · 2006
It leaves something behind
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders · 2017
It leaves something behind · tender until it hurts
A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid · 2023
It leaves something behind · it won't tell you everything at once
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1941
Slow and sad, in the good way · a good honest cry
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1969
Sadness on a low heat · with fire in it
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