If It Makes You Happy

Book Playlist

If It Makes You Happy Playlist

by Julie Olivia

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 21, 2026

A warm-but-restless mix that mirrors the book’s push-pull between reassurance and self-questioning—threads of tenderness, recovery, and hard-earned clarity. The instrumental half creates room to think, while the vocal half supplies intimate emotional color for the story’s shifting relationships and moods.

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Track List

20 songs

1

The Only Living Boy in New York

Simon & Garfunkel · Bridge Over Troubled Water

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2

Someone Like You

Adele · 21

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3

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Joy Division · The Best Of

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4

Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers · Just As I Am

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5

The Weight - Remastered 2000

The Band · Music From Big Pink (Remastered)

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6

Blinding Lights

The Weeknd · After Hours

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7

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman Experience · Fast Car

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8

Space Song

Beach House · Depression Cherry

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9

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver · The John Denver Collection, Vol 1: Take Me Home Country Roads

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10

The Shire

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

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11

Until I Found You

Stephen Sanchez · Easy On My Eyes

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12

Sunflower

Rex Orange County · Sunflower

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13

You Are The Best Thing

Ray LaMontagne · Gossip in the Grain

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14

Stay With Me

Sam Smith · In The Lonely Hour

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15

Turn Your Lights Down Low

Bob Marley & The Wailers · Chant Down Babylon

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16

The Nights

Avicii · Avicii Forever

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17

Home

Maria Loka · Home

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18

Intro

The xx · xx

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19

Weightless - 253 Edit

Marconi Union · Weightless (253 Edit)

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20

Closing Time

Leonard Cohen · The Future

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