Piranesi

Book Playlist

Piranesi Playlist

by Susanna Clarke

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 25, 2026

5 mixes for this book

Piranesi’s infinite house, trapped ocean, and shifting sense of scale call for music that feels both hushed and strangely vast—where details repeat, rooms echo, and wonder curdles into unease. This playlist alternates between lyrical wonder and wordless, labyrinthine instrumental spaces to track Piranesi’s calm endurance, his growing clarity, and the book’s dreamlike emotional tides.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Across The Universe - Remastered 2009

The Beatles · Let It Be (Remastered)

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2

Hoppípolla

Sigur Rós · Takk...

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3

Space Song

Beach House · Depression Cherry

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4

The Night We Met

Lord Huron · Strange Trails

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5

Clair de lune

Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters

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6

On the Nature of Daylight

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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7

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

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8

Mystery of Love

Sufjan Stevens · Mystery of Love

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9

Take Me Home, Country Roads

John Denver · The John Denver Collection, Vol 1: Take Me Home Country Roads

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10

Breathe Me

Sia · Colour The Small One

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11

Home

Maria Loka · Home

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12

Weightless

Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4

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13

Somebody Told Me

The Killers · Hot Fuss

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14

Let Her Go

Passenger · All the Little Lights

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15

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man

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16

Human

Rag'n'Bone Man · Human (Deluxe)

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17

The Promise

Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture

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18

Sabre Dance

Aram Khachaturian · Choreography

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19

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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20

Seven Devils

Florence + The Machine · Ceremonials (Original Deluxe Version)

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