A Thousand Splendid Suns

Book Playlist

A Thousand Splendid Suns Playlist

by Khaled Hosseini

19 tracks

balanced

Sep 3, 2026

4 mixes for this book

Khaled Hosseini’s novel moves through decades of Afghan life—family bonds under pressure, grief turning into courage, and women carving out dignity amid violence and displacement. This playlist follows that arc from intimate, memory-like calm to harsher, restless tension, then into restrained hope that feels earned rather than triumphant.

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Track List

19 songs

1

Murmur

Soothing Oasis · Stillness

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2

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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3

Flight from the City

Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée

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4

Sunson

Nils Frahm · All Melody

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5

Solitude

Jerome Louis · Solitude

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6

Threads

Emmit Fenn · Threads

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7

So Sorry

John Butler · PRISM

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8

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel · In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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9

Talkin' Bout a Revolution

Barbara Mindless · Slow Songs & Fast Cars: Tribute to Tracy Chapman

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10

Falling Slowly

DraMatik · The Swell Season of Hip-Hop

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11

A Case of You

Joni Mitchell · Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell

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12

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Pickin' On Series · The Bluegrass Tribute to Neil Young

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13

The Sound Of Silence

Christopher Phillips · Piano Chill: Songs of Simon & Garfunkel

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14

The Man Comes Around

I Am Johnny Cash · I Am Johnny Cash

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15

Hometown Glory

Acoustic Guitar Revival · Adele Ukulele Renditions

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16

The Story

Brandi Carlile · All About - Reclam Musik Edition 5 - Americana

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17

Stand by Me

Ben E. King · Summer of the 50's & 60's

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18

I See Fire

Ed Sheeran · KuschelKlassik, Vol. 19

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19

Don’t Give Too Much of a Fuck

Luminary Flux · Too Many Monsters in My Closet

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