Miss Wolcott's Ghost

Book Playlist

Miss Wolcott's Ghost Playlist

by Louise Penny

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 13, 2026

2 mixes for this book

A quietly suspenseful journey from the unsettling call in the night into the wooded mystery of Lost Nation, with shadowy instrumentals for the search and lyrical songs that turn toward fear, memory, and human connection. The mix also nods to Gamache’s measured resolve and the intimate, wintry atmosphere of rural Quebec without losing the story’s shifts in pace and mood.

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Track List

20 songs

1

My Friend the Forest

Nils Frahm · All Melody

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2

Hammers

Nils Frahm · Spaces

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3

Bent

Kiasmos · Kiasmos

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4

Minor Cause

Emancipator · Dusk to Dawn

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5

Way Out There - Main Title

Carter Burwell · Raising Arizona (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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6

Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis · The Complete Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane

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7

'Round Midnight

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

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8

Hymn to Freedom

Oscar Peterson · Hold These Truths

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9

Alabama

John Coltrane · Live At Birdland

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10

A Familiar Taste

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross · The Social Network

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11

The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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12

The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black

Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black

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13

The River

Bruce Springsteen · The River

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14

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot · Summertime Dream

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15

A Case of You

Joni Mitchell · Blue

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16

The Partisan

Leonard Cohen · Songs From A Room

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17

The House That Built Me

Miranda Lambert · Revolution

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18

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen · The Ghost Of Tom Joad

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19

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Fairport Convention · The Airing Cupboard Tapes

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20

The Wolves (Act I and II)

Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago

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