Play(list) by the Book: Kafka on the Shore

I'm so excited to have come across another book that lets me this kind of post, which I enjoy creating immensely! So without many words this is the playlists with all the songs and artists mentioned in Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.

In this list, I included many pieces of classical music, which actually feel important to the novel in some way or another. When a song was named by its title I put it on the list right away, if an artist was only mentioned then I chose one of my favourite songs by this artist and if an album was the case then I chose a song from that particular album.

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Play(list) by the Book: Battle Royale

After the playlist I had created for The Bone Clocks (which you can listen here) I've been wanting to make a new one. Battle Royale offered me another chance to share with you all the song mentioned in the novel. Shuya, one of the main characters, is into rock music which is a forbidden genre for the fictional country he lives. All the song are mostly classics, well-known and beloved. It's a smaller playlist than the previous one, but nonetheless enjoyable.

As in The Bone Clocks, some artists were just mentioned by their name and not a particular song. In those cases, I simply chose one that I like. In this particular playlist are the songs by The Blues Brothers and Lou Reed.

Born to Run is an extremely important song for this book, so I would advise taking a good listen to it especially if you are interested in reading it!

Enjoy!

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Play(list) by the Book: The Bone Clocks

In The Bone Clocks there are so many songs mentioned that I couldn't resist the temptation to create a playlist to share with you! But I had to (at least) try to limit it to a sensible number of tracks. That's why I only included one song per artist, I didn't include any classical music pieces and in case an album was mentioned I picked the song I liked the most. So, plug in your headsets and enjoy!

But this post wouldn't really be complete without a list of the albums mentioned throughout the book or the classical music pieces (I have also added the classical pieces in the playlist, however you might still want to listen to them in their entirety).

 Albums mentioned:

• Talking Heads - Fear of Music
• Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding
• Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
• Nirvana - Nevermind
• George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
• Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
• Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
• Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

Pieces of Classical Music:

• John Dowland - Weep You No More Sad Fountains
• Benjamin Britten - Hymn to the Virgin
• Peter Grimes - Interludes
• Bruckner - Sumphony no. 9 
• W. A. Mozart - Don Giovanni, Act 2
• Bach - Partitas
• Stradivarius played by Yehudi Menuhin
• John Cage - In a Landscape
• Keith Jarrett - My Wild Irish Rose
• Maria Callas - Casta Diva
• Toru Takemitsu - From Me Flows What You Call Time
• Jean Sibelius - The Swan of Tuenola
• Shostakovich - Preludes and Fugues
• William Byrd - Hughe Ashton's Ground
• Jan Johansson - Jazz pa svenska
• Scarlatti - Sonata in D minor

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