The Midnight Library

Book Playlist

The Midnight Library Playlist

20 tracks

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Nov 8, 2026

2 mixes for this book

The instrumental opening moves between the library’s strange, suspended stillness and the momentum of Nora’s branching lives. The vocal half traces her movement from regret and uncertainty toward connection and the discovery that an imperfect life can still hold possibility.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Olson

Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children

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2

Threads

This Will Destroy You · S/T

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3

Repetition

Max Cooper · Yearning for the Infinite

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4

Parallel Jalebi

Four Tet · Beautiful Rewind

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5

Black Sands

Bonobo · Black Sands

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6

Should Have Known Better

Sufjan Stevens · Carrie & Lowell

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7

Unwritten

Natasha Bedingfield · Unwritten

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8

I Lived

OneRepublic · Native

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9

A Better Son/Daughter

Rilo Kiley · The Execution Of All Things

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10

This Year

The Mountain Goats · The Sunset Tree

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11

Everybody's Changing

Keane · Hopes And Fears

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12

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman

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13

Holocene

Bon Iver · Bon Iver, Bon Iver

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14

The World At Large

Modest Mouse · Good News For People Who Love Bad News

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15

Vienna

Billy Joel · The Stranger (Legacy Edition)

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16

Anthem

Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough

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17

Interloper

Carbon Based Lifeforms · Interloper

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18

In C

Terry Riley · In C / Djembé

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19

La noyée

Yann Tiersen · My sentimental movie collection – Filmowa rapsodia na akordeon i orkiestrę

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20

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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