The Name of the Wind

Book Playlist

The Name of the Wind Playlist

by Patrick Rothfuss, Marc Simonetti

20 tracks

balanced

Nov 9, 2026

5 mixes for this book

This playlist follows Kvothe from the intimate world of music and remembered loss toward the University’s restless curiosity, dangerous experiments, and the mysteries surrounding his past. Its instrumental opening gives way to songs about storytelling, exile, knowledge, and elusive love, balancing the warmth of the inn with the scale of the legend.

Open in Spotify Reading Room

Your reading session

Press play. Turn the page.

Listen with Spotify

This player plays the saved playlist. Save your mix to listen to the replacements together.

Want a timer? Open the Reading Room for candlelit reading sprints with this soundtrack, a little ambience and a library card that tracks your pages, reading pace and daily streak. How reading sprints work.

Your changes aren't saved yet. Choose Save my mix to create your own Spotify playlist.

Track List

20 songs

1

Una Mattina

Ludovico Einaudi · Una Mattina

Replaced in your draft

2

Song for Sienna

Brian Crain · Piano and Cello Duet

Replaced in your draft

3

The Secret Life of Daydreams

Dario Marianelli · Pride and Prejudice Songbook

Replaced in your draft

4

Atonement

Dario Marianelli · The 5 Browns In Hollywood

Replaced in your draft

5

The Bard's Song - In the Forest - Remastered 2007

Blind Guardian · Somewhere Far Beyond (Remastered 2007)

Replaced in your draft

6

The Parting Glass

The Wailin' Jennys · 40 Days

Replaced in your draft

7

The Book of Love

The Magnetic Fields · 69 Love Songs

Replaced in your draft

8

The Moon and the Sky

Sade · Soldier of Love

Replaced in your draft

9

The Story

Brandi Carlile · The Story

Replaced in your draft

10

The Curse

Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away

Replaced in your draft

11

The Mariner's Revenge Song

The Decemberists · Picaresque

Replaced in your draft

12

The Stable Song

Gregory Alan Isakov · That Sea, The Gambler

Replaced in your draft

13

The Willow Maid

Erutan · Raindancer

Replaced in your draft

14

The Trapeze Swinger

Iron & Wine · Around the Well

Replaced in your draft

15

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1981 Gould Remaster)

Replaced in your draft

16

Under the Water It Glowed

Eluvium · Lambent Material

Replaced in your draft

17

Ashes in the Snow

MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra

Replaced in your draft

18

Entr'acte

Caroline Shaw · Caroline Shaw: Orange

Replaced in your draft

19

Consolation No. 3 in D-Flat Major, S. 172

Franz Liszt · Liszt - My Piano Hero

Replaced in your draft

20

Nocturne No. 5 in B-Flat Major

John Field · Field: Nocturnes

Replaced in your draft

Playlist Settings

The preferences requested for this mix.

Mood balanced

Genre match

Era any

Length medium

Instrumental request 50%

Environment balanced

Generate a book playlist

Use our book playlist generator to customize the mood, genre and length for The Name of the Wind.

Same book, another mood

4 more mixes for The Name of the Wind

See all 5 mixes