A Fan Playlist for Every Last Word
Are you in need of a sad playlist? Songs to make you cry? A melancholy soundtrack? If that’s your jam, well then DITTO. I adore music that makes you feel all the feels. Now trust me, I also love a good dance mix, a good patio playlist for summer nights, a good scream-in-the-car set of songs, but there’s just something about a playlist that might require a few tissues that gets me every time. If you’ve read EVERY LAST WORD, you know you need tissues. If you haven’t read it yet, then prepare yourself. Either way, I’ve put together a playlist that captures a lot of what I felt reading, and what I think would make a perfect accompaniment to anyone’s reading experience.
These are not all sad songs, I promise! I also promised that despite the poetry in the book, I would not put all 31 songs off The Tortured Poets Department into the playlist and call it a day. We have a bop to kick things off after all, since The Crazy Eights give off serious The Plastics vibes. There are some songs featuring great guitar-playing because, well, IYKYK or you’ll soon find out. There’s some songs mentioned in the book and a little bit of cheesiness because I can’t resist. Plus a few songs that, like the best books, remind us we’re not alone in this wild world. Enjoy!
The New York Times bestselling, BookTok sensation, deeply moving novel of friendship, first love, mental health, and belonging, perfect for fans of Girl in Pieces and The Summer of Broken Rules.
If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling.
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off.
Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she’d be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam’s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.
Caroline introduces Sam to Poet’s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more “normal” than she ever has as part of the popular crowd… until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.