And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Book Playlist

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer Playlist

by Fredrik Backman, David Morse

20 tracks
balanced
Sep 27, 2026

A reading playlist that mirrors the book’s slow, intimate emotional weather—tender recollection, family devotion, and the ache of letting go. Instrumentals first for quiet inward focus, then vocal tracks to match the unfolding relationships and shared memories across generations.

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20 songs
1

Cirrus

Bonobo · The North Borders

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Re: Stacks

Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago

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3

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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Elegy

Lisa Gerrard · Immortal Memory

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Loreena McKennitt · The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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My Silver Lining

First Aid Kit · Stay Gold

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Lean on Me

Bill Withers · Still Bill

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Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol · Eyes Open

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Somewhere Only We Know

Keane · Hopes And Fears

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10

Stand By Me

Ben E. King · Don't Play That Song (Mono)

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11

The A Team

Ed Sheeran · +

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Let It Be - Remastered 2009

The Beatles · Let It Be (Remastered)

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Home

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros · Up from Below

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How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Marvin Gaye · How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing The Piano

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The Great Gig in the Sky

Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon

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Your Hand in Mine

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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Hoppípolla

Sigur Rós · Takk...

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19

A Stream With Bright Fish - 2005 Digital Remaster

Harold Budd · The Pearl

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Bær

Hildur Guðnadóttir · Saman

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