The Reading Playlist
Romantasy Playlist
Aurora Lyra’s official reading list for the genre.
A folk-orchestral, dark-feminine, pop-rock-fusion mix to read your next romantasy to. Curated by the author of The Black Bond and the Romantasy concept album. Built for dragon-rider trials, fated-bond longing, and enemies-to-lovers slow burns.
What’s on it
Twenty-seven Aurora Lyra tracks. Plus the romantasy canon.
Album 1 · 12 tracks
The Black Bond Companion Album
Folk-orchestral. Strings, choir, piano. Scored to the novel.
Album 2 · 15 tracks
Romantasy
Folk-pop, dark-feminine. A coded love letter to the romantasy bestseller shelf.
Plus a dozen-plus carefully-chosen tracks from the romantasy reading canon — Hozier, Florence + the Machine, Eivør, Lord Huron, The Lumineers, Daughter, Birdy, Ruelle, Taylor Swift. Slow-burn pacing. No skips.
Why this playlist exists
Romantasy readers don’t just read. They listen while they read.
For five years, romantasy fans have built reading playlists for books that didn’t have soundtracks — fan-made lists for Fourth Wing, for A Court of Thorns and Roses, for The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Sometimes hundreds of tracks deep. Sometimes voted on. Always music-coded.
The Aurora Lyra contract is that every novel ships with one. The official author playlist sits next to the original albums: twenty-seven Aurora Lyra tracks scored alongside the books, plus the supplementary canon — the songs the romantasy community already loves to read to.
Open it. Press play. Read your next book.