The Love Hypothesis Playlist
The instrumental half moves between the measured focus of lab work and the intimate uncertainty of Olive and Adam’s evolving relationship. The vocal half adds the book’s mix of playful chemistry, misread signals, friendship, and hard-won emotional openness, with songs that echo Olive and Adam’s particular slow-burn dynamic.
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Track List
20 songsCanon in D
Johann Pachelbel · Pachelbel: Canon in D - Bach: Air on a G String - Handel: Largo from 'Xerxes' - Hallelujah Chorus - Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
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Waltz For Debby
Bill Evans · New Jazz Conceptions
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In A Sentimental Mood
Duke Ellington · The Duke Plays Ellington
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Kiara
Bonobo · Black Sands
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Two Dots
Lusine · A Certain Distance
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Angel Echoes
Four Tet · There Is Love in You (Expanded Edition)
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Anthem
Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
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The Light
The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again
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The Scientist
Coldplay · The Scientist
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Bags
Clairo · Immunity
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Lovefool
The Cardigans · Best Of
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I Wanna Be Yours
Arctic Monkeys · AM
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Everywhere
Fleetwood Mac · Greatest Hits
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You Make My Dreams (Come True)
Daryl Hall & John Oates · Voices
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Kiss Me
Sixpence None The Richer · Sixpence None The Richer
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The Way I Am
Ingrid Michaelson · Girls And Boys
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First Day of My Life
Bright Eyes · I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
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Real Love Baby
Father John Misty · Real Love Baby
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Mosaic
The American Dollar · Across the Oceans
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Same book, another mood