Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Book Playlist

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

by Heather Fawcett

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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Sep 29, 2026
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20 songs
1
Melancholia

Melancholia II

William Basinski · Melancholia

2
Kiasmos

Looped

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

3
Dropsonde

Dissolving Clouds

Biosphere · Dropsonde

4
Works 1965-1995

Piano Phase

Steve Reich · Works 1965-1995

5
Brahms Intermezzi

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

Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi

6
1996

Rain - Version for Piano Trio

Ryuichi Sakamoto · 1996

7
The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

The Imitation Game

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

8
The Last of Us

The Last of Us

Gustavo Santaolalla · The Last of Us

9
Insides

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

10
Merry-Go-Round of Life (from 'Howl’s Moving Castle')

Merry-Go-Round of Life

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

11
Surfacing

Angel

Sarah McLachlan · Surfacing

12
Sigh No More

The Cave

Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More

13
Hozier

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

14
Wildfire

Fight Song

Rachel Platten · Wildfire

15
Be Not Nobody

A Thousand Miles

Vanessa Carlton · Be Not Nobody

16
Hot Fuss

Somebody Told Me

The Killers · Hot Fuss

17
Meteora (Bonus Edition)

Somewhere I Belong

Linkin Park · Meteora (Bonus Edition)

18
Pachelbel: Canon in D - Bach: Air on a G String - Handel: Largo from 'Xerxes' - Hallelujah Chorus - Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary

Canon in D

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

19
Vaughan-Williams and Tavener

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan-Williams and Tavener

20
Khachaturian Orchestral Music

Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

Aram Khachaturian · Khachaturian Orchestral Music

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