A Little Life

Book Playlist

A Little Life Playlist

by Hanya Yanagihara

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 25, 2026

2 mixes for this book

A Little Life moves between intimate tenderness and crushing, long-simmering grief—so this playlist alternates between restrained instrumentals that leave space for concentration and carefully chosen lyric-driven tracks that echo friendship, endurance, and the search for mercy. The ordering traces a sense of breath returning after pain, mirroring Jude’s and the group’s emotional cycles across time and place.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

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2

Clair de lune

Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters

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3

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber · Classic

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4

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

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5

River Flows In You

Yiruma · First Love (The Original & the Very First Recording)

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6

Nuvole Bianche

Ludovico Einaudi · Una Mattina

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7

The Promise

Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture

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8

On the Nature of Daylight

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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9

Weightless

Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4

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10

The Night We Met

Lord Huron · Strange Trails

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11

Somebody Told Me

The Killers · Hot Fuss

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12

Somewhere Only We Know

Keane · Hopes And Fears

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13

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

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14

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen · Various Positions

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15

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman

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16

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair

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17

Teardrop

Massive Attack · Mezzanine

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18

Creep

Radiohead · Pablo Honey

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19

Young And Beautiful

Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful

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20

Waltz For Debby

Bill Evans · New Jazz Conceptions

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