Once Upon a Broken Heart
Book Playlist

Once Upon a Broken Heart Playlist

by Stephanie Garber

37 tracks
balanced
Aug 16, 2026
4 mixes for this book

This playlist reflects the magical and emotional journey of "Once Upon a Broken Heart" with a blend of instrumental and vocal tracks that evoke the book's fantasy setting, the turmoil of love and deals, and the dark allure of the Prince of Hearts. The instrumentals range from cinematic and ethereal to haunting and mysterious, while the vocal songs explore themes of desire, heartbreak, and fate, capturing the novel’s complex character dynamics and enchanting atmosphere.

Why this music fits

When Evangeline Fox learns that the love of her life is about to marry someone else, she makes a bargain with Jacks, the charming and dangerous Prince of Hearts, to stop the wedding. This Once Upon a Broken Heart playlist spends its first half in a fairy tale, with Debussy's "Reverie", Howard Shore's "The Shire" and Joe Hisaishi's "The Wind Forest". Then it turns darker and more romantic, with AURORA's "Running With The Wolves", MGMT's "Little Dark Age" and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand". Want few lyrics? The first 19 tracks are mostly film, game and piano scores. Billy Boyd's "The Last Goodbye" is the one song among them. At 37 tracks, the mix lasts a long reading session. It's a reading mix inspired by the book, not a list of songs from it. Find other mixes on the book page, or make your own.

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Track List

37 songs
1

The Nightfall

Technimatic · Through the Hours

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A Kaleidoscope Of Mathematics

James Horner · A Beautiful Mind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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The Quidditch World Cup

Patrick Doyle · Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Reverie

Claude Debussy · Reverie

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An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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Inbreaking

Hammock · The Second Coming Was a Moonrise

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7

Intro

C418 · Minecraft - Volume Beta

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Light of Nibel (feat. Aeralie Brighton)

Gareth Coker · Ori and the Blind Forest (Original Soundtrack)

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Elysium

Ryan Amon · Elysium (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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The Shire

Howard Shore · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the Complete Recordings

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Ritual

Peter Gregson · Ritual

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12

Stop Like You Promised

Thomas Newman · Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

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13

The Last Goodbye

Billy Boyd · The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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The Wind Forest

Joe Hisaishi · Piano Stories Best '88-'08

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15

Insomnia

Maxence Cyrin · Insomnia

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16

Solar Sailer

Daft Punk · TRON: Legacy - The Complete Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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17

amour

Jean-Michel Blais · aubades

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18

Life and Death - Live from National Concert Hall, Dublin / June 2019

Michael Giacchino · We Have to Go Back: The LOST Concert (Live from National Concert Hall, Dublin / June 2019)

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19

Samsara

Hakone · Samsara

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20

Running With The Wolves

AURORA · All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)

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21

Never Let Me Go

Florence + The Machine · Ceremonials (Original Deluxe Version)

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22

Love is a Laserquest

Arctic Monkeys · Suck It and See

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23

Fallingforyou

The 1975 · The 1975 (Deluxe)

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24

Celeste

Ezra Vine · Celeste EP

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25

Control

Jay de Lys · Control

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26

Glory And Gore

Lorde · Pure Heroine

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27

Breathe Me

Sia · Colour The Small One

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28

Tear You Apart

She Wants Revenge · She Wants Revenge

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29

Cosmic Dancer

T. Rex · Electric Warrior

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30

Electric Love

BØRNS · Dopamine

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31

Heartbeats

José González · Veneer

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32

Shallow

Lady Gaga · A Star Is Born Soundtrack

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33

Little Dark Age

MGMT · Little Dark Age

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34

You Don't Own Me (feat. G-Eazy)

SAYGRACE · FMA

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35

Red Right Hand

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Red Right Hand (Theme from 'Peaky Blinders')

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36

Dog Days Are Over

Florence + The Machine · Lungs (Deluxe Version)

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Luminary

Joel Sunny · Luminary

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