Book Playlist

Beauty the Dead Remember Playlist

by Frank Gammon

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 21, 2026

“Beauty the Dead Remember” feels haunted by memory—what’s beautiful, what returns, and what refuses to stay buried. This playlist pairs mid-tempo, intimate indie and folk with darker, instrumental soundscapes to mirror the book’s shifting moods from tenderness to unease, without letting the music dominate your reading.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Gymnopédie No. 1

Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends

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2

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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3

Ophelia

The Lumineers · Cleopatra

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4

Clair de lune

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

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5

Time

Hans Zimmer · Inception (Music from the Motion Picture)

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6

Weightless

Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4

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7

Late

Nils Frahm · Old Friends New Friends

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8

The Rains of Castamere

Ramin Djawadi · Game Of Thrones: Season 8 (Music from the HBO Series)

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9

Somebody Told Me

The Killers · Hot Fuss

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10

Young And Beautiful

Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful

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11

Take Me To Church

Hozier · Hozier

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12

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman Experience · Fast Car

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13

Somewhere Only We Know

Keane · Hopes And Fears

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14

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel · The Singer

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15

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen · Various Positions

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16

Stay With Me

Sam Smith · In The Lonely Hour

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17

Let Her Go

Passenger · All the Little Lights

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18

Runaway

AURORA · All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)

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19

Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2

Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi

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20

Adagio For Strings

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Encores

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