Do You Listen To Music, When Reading Certain Books?

[MadmanOnWheels]

Are there certain playlists or albums that you listen or listened to, for certain books (as a soundtrack), to set the mood or put you in that world?

Let's list books that we've read with music, as well as what those playlists or albums are.

This might help others enjoy reading certain books better, with your recommendations and reasons.

Here's what I have read that I listened to music with.

Animal Farm

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/167F5jyRiK4MCmhUd6QWHB?si=irc_6rk4RouG9K_JovVNqg&utm_source=copy-l...

Although, it's a short book, and there's some violence in it, the story spans many years, and Enya's music helps express that, and the depth of the situations with the deepness of her sound.

Red Rising

Golden Son

Morning Star

 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iO5tZgfIFyy0SVTumuaZG?si=_kjGhv7oRq6-FUDqj7Bnng&utm_source=copy-l...

This is a playlist that I created for this book. A couple examples of how the songs are fitting is that the people and the time that the stories take place take on more ancient characteristics, which some songs give a feel of. Others have a space-like sound, which is another environment where the story takes place.

Perfume

 https://open.spotify.com/album/6APVpaYJhhRhUPQQe8eRDb?si=JmBYkes8R3SJp5KCLh58nQ&utm_source=copy-link

Since the movie was made from the book, it makes sense that this should fit.

Childhood's End

 https://open.spotify.com/album/1eLTPuahdxEsdSAX3Q2atZ?si=NNbNEqfXQwKNHoWzPsaomg&utm_source=copy-link

The same goes for this one, but it was made for the miniseries, which I don't really reccomend; it's pretty far off in a lot of things. The soundtrack is really good, though.

I don't know if there's a good soundtrack for it, but I still need to get past the preface and start reading "Steppenwolf". It would be cool to, at least, get some idea of what kind of music would be fitting for it. TreyAnastasio (in the community) recommended the book, when we were chatting, but has anyone read it with a soundtrack? 

[AyuTheHuman]

I do listen to music when I read a book, not by specific books but mainly the genres.

If it's a book I'm not interested in but I have to read, for school, I'll listen to Lofi-/Hip-hop to help me focus, https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4ulGYKUqdk2Fr2Hh7CNBg3?si=d23a407d2689424d 

but if it's a genre like Mystery that I enjoy, I'll listen to some of my favorite songs. 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0OSQ2JLcZEJpRbAMLXhxYI?si=9f710b5d187a477c 

[MadmanOnWheels]

Oh, okay. I like to match the feel of a book, with music that has a certain feel and sound and can help you imagine the story. I don't know the book that you've read, or all the genres that you like, but you ought to check out making one for a book that you're interested in. What genres of books do you like?

For music, I'm not into Rap/Hip-Hop, but I just checked out samples of your "Lofi/Hip-hop" playlist. That seems good to read something to, or even to just relax to. It's nice. I rarely do this, but I'm about to follow it.

[user-removed]

**bleep** yes! Please don’t judge my book choices haha! But when I was younger I was a Cassandra Clare fan and Mortal Instruments/Infernal Devices was the shiznit. I was listening to Gossip a lot and the Album Music For Men is now associated with The Mortal Instruments series. 
https://open.spotify.com/album/603lut5ZFjEpJxhhRISjgI?si=Z7eH1xLQSAKCuh1Fcbs_NQ

My most favourite books are the ones by Patrick Rothfuss: Name Of The Wind/Wise Man’s Fear and I always listen to Nano Stern and Iron & Wine, specifically these albums.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3fzjXU2SSKero9gVMcPivX?si=7hIsebDsQ2GxmS7IR6GGpw
https://open.spotify.com/album/169vCBCFaW2na816P8Ir7m?si=SpNq472BTOGBKacm81-NAw
https://open.spotify.com/album/15XFSL0nPzg9ieVJXzOIVo?si=ZpehVSE1SuOzI4BFfsI4HA

https://open.spotify.com/album/4LMBDAidEoqaV7hkqfVMlq?si=-QjpmdFvRtS88zrQcq9w3Q

[MadmanOnWheels]

Oh, okay. I'm not familiar with those books (or authors) or the albums and artists. Are there specific reasons why you picked those albums to listen to, while reading those books?

[user-removed]

It was unintentional how it came to be. All I can say is that these were the artists/albums that I was listening to at the time I was reading those books. Usually when I can be bothered to pick up a book, I don’t listen to music. But The Mortal Instruments was the first time I experienced reading along with music and then I followed this routine with the other books I’ve mentioned.

Cassandra Clare’s books are considered young adult fantasy. It’s basically a bunch of teens living in the present world but doing magical action packed things. Gossip’s music sort of helped me absorb the characters and the story better, because the tunes are bad a**, and related well to the adventures/events that were happening in the books.

With Patrick Rothfuss’s books it’s set in a different time and place, before electricity,  when people were superstitious and science wasn’t well known or understood by many people and education was only afforded to the prestigious and wealthy. It’s quite organic? And the main character is a highly talented and skilled musician, like a minstrel. But he’s from poor gypsy stock which is frowned upon in the story. So Nano Stern and Iron & Wine spoke to that, cos of the natural acoustic sound and beautiful voices and that’s just how I imagined the main character to be.

[MadmanOnWheels]

Oh, alright. From the stories that you described, you might really like the three books of the "Red Rising" series that I read. I used that playlist throughout all three. It's pretty easy to quickly read them, even though they're big books.

Here's the description for the first book

It's really cool that, I had forgotten about the part in the second paragraph, when I actually got around to reading it. It makes it that much more interesting.