Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries Playlist

by Heather Fawcett

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 29, 2026

3 mixes for this book

Emily Wilde’s world is all meticulous scholarship colliding with dangerous, half-understood faerie magic—so this playlist balances warm, bookish intimacy with sudden, unsettling spark. The instrumental half traces the northern wilderness and enchanted scholarship, while the vocal half carries the series’ growing friendships, hard-earned softness, and the tug between wonder and dread.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Melancholia II

William Basinski · Melancholia

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2

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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3

Dissolving Clouds

Biosphere · Dropsonde

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4

Piano Phase

Steve Reich · Works 1965-1995

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5

Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi

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6

Rain - Version for Piano Trio

Ryuichi Sakamoto · 1996

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7

The Imitation Game

Alexandre Desplat · The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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8

The Last of Us

Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us

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9

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

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10

Merry-Go-Round of Life

Joe Hisaishi · Merry-Go-Round of Life (from 'Howl’s Moving Castle')

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11

Angel

Sarah McLachlan · Surfacing

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12

The Cave

Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More

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13

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

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14

Fight Song

Rachel Platten · Wildfire

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15

A Thousand Miles

Vanessa Carlton · Be Not Nobody

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16

Somebody Told Me

The Killers · Hot Fuss

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17

Somewhere I Belong

Linkin Park · Meteora (Bonus Edition)

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Canon in D

Johann Pachelbel · Pachelbel: Canon in D - Bach: Air on a G String - Handel: Largo from 'Xerxes' - Hallelujah Chorus - Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary

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19

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan-Williams and Tavener

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20

Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

Aram Khachaturian · Khachaturian Orchestral Music

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