Project Hail Mary
Book Playlist

Project Hail Mary Playlist

by Andy Weir

40 tracks
balanced
Nov 11, 2026
20 mixes for this book

This sequence pairs intimate piano and strings with restrained electronics to echo Grace’s disoriented awakening, the methodical work of solving a cosmic crisis, and the warmth that grows through his bond with Rocky. Its shifts from quiet unease to measured momentum and tenderness follow the book’s balance of scientific problem-solving, isolation, and hope.

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Track List

40 songs
1

Elegy

Lisa Gerrard · Immortal Memory

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Arrival of the Birds

The Cinematic Orchestra · The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)

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Awake

Tycho · Awake

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Elegy For The Arctic

Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home

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Near Light

Ólafur Arnalds · Living Room Songs

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Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Samuel Barber · Barber: Cello Concerto - Medea Suite - Adagio for Strings

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Horizon Variations

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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Aerial Boundaries

Michael Hedges · Aerial Boundaries

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Experience

Ludovico Einaudi · In A Time Lapse

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10

Weightless

Marconi Union · The Ambient Zone Just Music Cafe Vol 4

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Amaze Amaze Amaze (Life on Erid) - from "Project Hail Mary"

Daniel Pemberton · Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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Home

Disasterpeace · FEZ (Original Game Soundtrack)

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13

Abiogenesis

Carbon Based Lifeforms · World of Sleepers

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Silk Road

Kitaro · Super Best

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Rain

Brian Crain · Piano and Violin Duet

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Nevergreen

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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Moonrise

Brian Crain · A Simple Life

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Eternia

Daniel Pemberton · Masters of the Universe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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A Simple Life

Brian Crain · Impressions from Paris to Prague

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Oceans

Ólafur Arnalds · like gravity

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21

Window

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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A Moment - from "Project Hail Mary"

Daniel Pemberton · Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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23

Wind - Solo Piano

Brian Crain · Piano Opus - Solo Piano

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Happiness Does Not Wait

Ólafur Arnalds · Erased Tapes Collection V

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Intertwine

The Album Leaf · A Body Of Voices

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So Far

Ólafur Arnalds · Broadchurch (Music From The Original TV Series)

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Fight or Flight

The Album Leaf · A Body Of Voices

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Twentytwofourteen

The Album Leaf · In A Safe Place

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29

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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Amaze Amaze Amaze (Fist My Bump) - from "Project Hail Mary"

Daniel Pemberton · Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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31

Red

Dustin O'Halloran · The Chromatic Sessions

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Gold

Dustin O'Halloran · The Chromatic Sessions

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Life is Reason - from "Project Hail Mary"

Daniel Pemberton · Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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You Were Loved (Burial) - from "Project Hail Mary"

Daniel Pemberton · Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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35

Caravansary

Kitaro · The Definitive Collection

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36

My Friend the Forest

Nils Frahm · All Melody

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Electric Counterpoint: III. Fast

Steve Reich · Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint

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38

Remurdered

Mogwai · Rave Tapes

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39

Halo

MONO · One Step More And You Die

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In C

Terry Riley · In C / Djembé

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