Reading playlist Gone with the Wind
The dust-red ache of holding Tara in your hands while everything worth holding onto rides away.
Artists and music for this book
Max Steiner
Bernard Herrmann
John Williams
Ennio Morricone
Randy Newman
Why this music
Because the book is drenched in the fragrant, doomed beauty of plantation Georgia, the music stays warm and strings-forward — Southern Romantic in tone, never grim. It swells with the grandeur Scarlett is fighting to preserve, then grows leaner and more desperate as war strips the world bare, before rising again with the stubborn heat of her survival.