Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I'd Give a Theme Song To

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Today's topic is:
Top Ten Books I'd give a theme song to

Since I'm such a huge music snob, this is a topic that took me weeks to work on. Seriously, like a month. I went so far as to go through all the 2000 songs on my iTunes account to find just the right song for each book. Some were easy (like, #1 was a total no-brainer. I knew that was the theme song for that book ever since it came out) but others took me a while to figure out.

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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Uprising by Muse

"They will not force us

They will stop degrading us

They will not control us

We will be victorious"

Can you think of a song more suited to the battlecry of Mockingjay than this one? I didn't think so. In fact, if this song isn't on the movie soundtrack, I'm going to be VERY upset.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver
The Resistance by Muse

"Love is our resistance

They'll keep us apart 

But they won't stop breaking us down

Hold me

Our lips must always be sealed."

Honestly, Muse's entire Resistance album is a dystopian literature lover's dream!

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Thank You for Loving Me by Jon Bon Jovi

"Thank you for loving me
For being my eyes
When I couldn't see
For parting my lips
When I couldn't breathe
Thank you for loving me"

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
Winter by Tori Amos

"I run off
Where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice
Your must learn to stand up for yourself
Cause I can't always be around He says

When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I'll always want you near
You say that things change my dear"

Paper Towns by John Green
Creep by Radiohead

"But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell I'm doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out again
She's running out
run, run run"

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Missing by Evanescence

"Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
Isn't something missing?

You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me? "

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Everybody Hurts by REM

"When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life, well hang on

Don't let yourself go

'Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes"

Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer
Sing by My Chemical Romance

"Sing it out
Boy, you got to see what tomorrow brings
Sing it out
Girl, you’ve got to be what tomorrow needs
For every time that they want to count you out
Use your voice every single time you open up your mouth"

All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Turn to Stone by Ingrid Michaelson
"I know that I am nothing new
There's so much more than me and you
But brother, how we must atone
before we turn to stone"

Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Gravity by Sara Bareilles

"I live here on my knees

as I try to make you see

that you're everything I think I need here on the ground.

But you're neither friend nor foe

though I can't seem to let you go.

The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down

You're on to me, on to me, and all over...

Something always brings me back to you.

It never takes too long."

I'm going to be entirely honest. I haven't actually read Crank yet, but the theme of the novel makes me think very much of the performance by Kayla and Kupono about addiction on So You Think You Can Dance. I just watched it again, and am amazed that it still moved me to tears: