The Inmate

Book Playlist

The Inmate Playlist

by Freida McFadden

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 21, 2026

This playlist follows Brooke’s return to a maximum-security prison, where professional restraint collides with a dangerous personal history and the uncertainty of whom to trust. Tense score-like instrumentals set the scene, while the vocal songs move through secrecy, suspicion, obsession, and the emotional cost of old loyalties.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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2

Sea Island Murders

Loscil · Sea Island

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3

Unfolding

Rival Consoles · Persona

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4

Lush

Four Tet · New Energy

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5

Held

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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6

Esther's

Amon Tobin · Foley Room

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7

Together We Will Live Forever

Clint Mansell · The Fountain OST

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8

Glasgow Love Theme

Craig Armstrong · Love Actually (Original Motion Picture Score)

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9

Opus 23

Dustin O'Halloran · Piano Solos, Vol. 2

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10

The Sinking of the Titanic

Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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11

Criminal

Fiona Apple · Tidal

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12

Bad Things

Jace Everett · Jace Everett

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13

Prison Song

System Of A Down · Toxicity

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14

I Know It's Over

The Smiths · Haunting Ballads

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15

No Ordinary Love

Sade · Love Deluxe

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16

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man

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17

Control

Janet Jackson · Control

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18

The Hand That Feeds

Nine Inch Nails · With Teeth (Bonus Tracks)

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19

You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen · You Want It Darker

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20

Criminal World - 2018 Remaster

David Bowie · Let's Dance (2018 Remaster)

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