Misery

Book Playlist

Misery Playlist

by Stephen King

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 24, 2026

“Misery” plays like a controlled chamber piece: tenderness curdles into obsession, then into coercive creativity. This playlist mirrors that arc with a balance of tense instrumental unease and character-anchored lyric tracks—capturing captivity, dread, devotion, and the desperate need to write your way out.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Intro

The xx · xx

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2

The Birth and Death of the Day

Explosions In The Sky · All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

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3

To Build A Home

The Cinematic Orchestra · Ma Fleur

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4

We Own the Sky

M83 · Saturdays = Youth

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5

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing The Piano

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6

The Story

Brandi Carlile · The Story

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7

Breezeblocks

alt-J · An Awesome Wave

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8

The Sound Of Silence

Christopher Phillips · Piano Chill: Songs of Simon & Garfunkel

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9

Creep

Radiohead · Pablo Honey

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10

Hurt

Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around

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11

The Man Comes Around

I Am Johnny Cash · I Am Johnny Cash

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12

Fallingforyou

Music Box Mania · MBM Performs The 1975

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13

Somebody That I Used To Know

Gotye · Making Mirrors

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14

Young And Beautiful

Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful

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15

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

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16

Giant Steps

John Coltrane · The Very Best of John Coltrane

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17

Chameleon

Herbie Hancock · Head Hunters

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18

'Round Midnight

Thelonious Monk · Genius Of Modern Music (Vol.1, Expanded Edition)

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19

Spain

Chick Corea · Light As A Feather

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20

Blue Monday

New Order · Substance

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