The Grace Year

Book Playlist

The Grace Year Playlist

20 tracks

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Oct 16, 2026

This playlist follows the girls’ journey from the strict rituals of Garner County into the danger and isolation of the grace year, then toward resistance, solidarity, and self-determination. Tense strings, spare piano, and restless electronic and post-rock instrumentals create the wilderness’s unease; the vocal songs turn to questions of power, gendered control, and the cost of refusing to be silenced.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Pavane, Op. 50

Gabriel Fauré · The Secret Fauré 2

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2

A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air

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3

Music for 18 Musicians: Section I

Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians

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4

Different Trains: America - Before The War

Steve Reich · Different Trains

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5

In a Landscape

John Cage · Der Bote

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6

The World Is Our ___

This Will Destroy You · Young Mountain

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7

I Can Almost See You

Hammock · Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo (Deluxe Edition)

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8

Minor Cause

Emancipator · Dusk to Dawn

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9

Angel Echoes

Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)

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10

Donkey Rhubarb

Aphex Twin · Donkey Rhubarb

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11

stella

KASHIWA Daisuke · program music I

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12

The Four Seasons - Violin Concerto in F Minor, RV 297, "Winter": II. Largo

Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: Die vier Jahreszeiten

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13

String Quartet in F Major: II. Assez vif

Maurice Ravel · Fauré / Ravel: String Quartets

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14

labour

Paris Paloma · Cacophony

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15

the fruits

Paris Paloma · the fruits

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16

You Don't Own Me

Lesley Gore · Lesley Gore Sings Of Mixed-Up Hearts

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17

Quiet

MILCK · This Is Not The End

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18

Praying

Kesha · Rainbow

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19

Nightmare

Halsey · If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power (Extended)

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20

The Tradition

Halsey · If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power

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