Audition

Book Playlist

Audition Playlist

by Katie M. Kitamura

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 12, 2026

This playlist follows the book’s shifting balance of poise and unease: spare piano, chamber textures, and cool city-jazz suggest the Manhattan lunch and the controlled surface of an actress at work, while the vocal half turns toward identity, intimacy, and the instability of family roles. The songs evoke performance as both craft and concealment, with particular attention to the woman’s composed public self and the unsettling, difficult-to-name bond at the story’s center.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Plus tôt

Alexandra Streliski · INSCAPE

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2

Sleeping Lotus

Joep Beving · Solipsism

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3

The Blue Hour

Federico Albanese · The Blue Hour

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4

Threnody

Goldmund · The Malady Of Elegance

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5

Strings Con Fuoco

Nicholas Britell · Succession: Season 1 (HBO Original Series Soundtrack)

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6

Dance For Me Wallis

Abel Korzeniowski · W.E. - Music From The Motion Picture

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7

Dead Already

Thomas Newman · American Beauty (Original Motion Picture Score)

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8

Peace Piece

Bill Evans · Everybody Digs Bill Evans

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9

Blue In Green

Miles Davis · The Jazz Masters - 27 Classic Performances From The Columbia Masterpieces Series

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10

Ruby, My Dear

Thelonious Monk · Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (OJC Remaster)

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11

Kiss The Rain

Yiruma · From The Yellow Room (The Original & the Very First Recording)

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12

Prélude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4

Frédéric Chopin · The Pianist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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13

Two Thousand and Seventeen

Four Tet · New Energy

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14

La femme d'argent

Air · Moon Safari

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15

Cirrus

Bonobo · The North Borders

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16

Actor Out of Work

St. Vincent · Actor

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17

Paper Bag

Fiona Apple · When The Pawn...

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18

The Desperate Kingdom Of Love

PJ Harvey · Uh Huh Her

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19

Luka

Suzanne Vega · Solitude Standing

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20

Samson

Regina Spektor · Begin to Hope

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