50 Best Bookshop Songs for IG Reels & Stories
Best Songs to Play in a Bookstore for Instagram Reels and Stories
There’s a certain quiet buzz that comes with stepping into a bookstore. It’s not silence, not noise, but a hum that sits somewhere in between. You wander past crooked stacks and uneven shelves, fingers grazing worn spines, and a song drifts in through a pair of earbuds or faint speakers near the register. The right track can make the whole scene feel like a frame from an indie film, where the smell of paper and coffee hangs in the air and time moves a little slower. These moments don’t need lyrics that spell out what’s happening. Sometimes a melody alone can tilt a room into focus.
It’s never some perfect, polished scene. Pages get bent, conversations happen too close to the poetry section, and the floorboards creak in places they shouldn’t. The right track doesn’t smooth any of that over. It leans into the quirks. A soft indie tune that sounds like it’s been recorded in a bedroom, a country ballad that feels like an old memory, or even a pop anthem that weirdly fits while someone flips through glossy cookbooks. Not every song in this list talks about bookshops outright, but the mood they capture fits the space where imagination hangs thick in the air.
The vibe shifts depending on who’s there and what kind of story you’re walking into. Some days call for tender pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that wrap the scene in warmth, while others need something a little louder to break the haze. These tracks take that in-between feeling of wandering through rows of books and turn it into a moment worth sharing. Here are the best bookshop songs for Instagram reels and stories.
Top 10 Literary Instagram Songs
1. 'Paperback Writer' by The Beatles
2. 'Wrapped Up in Books' by Belle & Sebastian
3. 'The Book I Read' by Talking Heads
4. 'Everyday I Write the Book' by Elvis Costello
5. 'Bookends' by Simon & Garfunkel
6. 'The Booklovers' by The Divine Comedy
7. 'Read a Book' by The Learning Station
8. 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush
9. 'Read It in Books' by Echo & the Bunnymen
10. 'I Could Write a Book' by Harry Connick, Jr.
Music for Bookshop Vlogs #11 to 20
11. 'Books Written for Girls' by Camera Obscura
12. 'A Cover is Not the Book' by Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, & Company
13. 'The Book of Love' by The Magnetic Fields
14. 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift
15. 'Somewhere Only We Know' by Keane
16. 'The Book of You & I' by Alec Benjamin
17. 'Read, Eat, Sleep' by The Books
18. 'Book Club' by The Books
19. 'Unwritten' by Natasha Bedingfield
20. 'Book of Days' by Enya
Aesthetic Reading Music #21 to 30
21. 'You Could Write a Book' by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
22. 'The Book That I've Been Reading' by Auralnauts
23. 'The Book I'm Not Reading' by Patty Larkin
24. 'Read Every Day' by The Learning Station
25. 'Books are Burning' by XTC
26. 'I Read a Lot' by Nick Lowe
27. 'Read to Me' by David Alpert
28. 'Books from Boxes' by Maximo Park
29. 'I am a Rock' by Simon & Garfunkel
30. 'The Book You Never Read' by Tracy Lawrence
Songs for Cozy Reading Videos #31 to 40
31. 'The Last Exit' by Still Corners
32. 'This Charming Man' by The Smiths
33. 'Little Talks' by Of Monsters and Men
34. 'The Book I'm Not Reading' by Patty Larkin
35. 'The Story of My Life' by Social Distortion
36. 'Fade Into You' by Mazzy Star
37. 'Reading in Bed' by Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
38. 'The Book of Right-On' by Joanna Newsom
39. 'Book of Dreams' by Suzanne Vega
40. 'When I Write the Book' by Rockpile
Playlist Songs for Book Content #41 to 50
41. 'Harvest Moon' by Neil Young
42. 'The Book of You' by Belle & Sebastian
43. 'Dreamweaver' by Gary Wright
44. 'Someone Was Listening' by Dodie
45. 'The Call' by Regina Spektor
46. 'I Wrote the Book' by Beth Ditto
47. 'The Book of You' by Adam Agin
48. 'The Book I Read' by Shaun Cassidy
49. 'Get Your Head in a Book' by They Might Be Giants
50. 'I Read You Like an Open Book' by Tages
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