Since 2010, artists with The Bushwick Book Club Seattle and STYLE have written original music inspired by hundreds of titles, contributing to a library of songs (many recorded) now numbering well over 1,500! The following is a list of sources that have inspired new musical compositions:
THE BUSHWICK BOOK CLUB SEATTLE MAINSTAGE SEASONS
2024-2025
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
2023-2024
2022-2023
The works of Margaret Wise Brown
2021-2022
2020-2021
Slaughterhouse-Five (10th Anniversary Show)
2019-2020
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
On Writing
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Educated
The Works of Shakespeare
Sabor Ami
White Teeth
Frog and Toad
2018-2019
Another Country
Bad Feminist
2018 Jack Straw Anthology
Leaves of Grass
Ms Marvel
Parable of the Talents
Daughters of the Air
Blood Song
This is How it always is
Sherlock Holmes
The Hate U Give
2017-2018
Ready Player One
2017 Jack Straw Writers Anthology
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
My Life as a Dog
Shrill
The PrEP Diaries: A Safe(r) Sex Memoir
Parable of the Sower
Love and Trouble
Weed
Welcome Thieves
Geek Love
The Handmaids Tale
The Phantom Tollbooth
2016-2017
Assassination Vacation
Blood Meridian
2016 Jack Straw Writers Anthology
The Boys in the Boat
Before the Wind
Love Water Memory
Americanah
The Little Prince
Station Eleven
2015-2016
Blue Swedish for Nowruz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Carrie
The Family
The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song
When the de la Cruz Family Danced
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Delta of Venus
Persepolis
Girl in a Band
2014-2015
The Walking Dead
Closer to the Ground
2014 Jack Straw Anthology
A Christmas Carol
A Sudden Light
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher:
The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Brokeback Mountain
Wild
Born Standing Up
Animal Vegetable Miracle
Asimov’s Foundation Series
2013-2014
She’s Come Undone
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Poems of Copper Canyon Press
Ball Four
2013 Jack Straw Anthology
How Music Works
Breakfast of Champions
Bonk
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
A Homemade Life
Frankenstein
2012-2013
Lonesome Dove
Go the F**k to Sleep
A Wrinkle in Time
1984
The Commitment
The Bartender’s Tale
2012 Jack Straw Anthology
A People’s History of the United States
Lust
The Sandman Series
The Holy Bible
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The Botany of Desire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2011-2012
The Outsiders
The Time Machine
The Shining
The Sparrow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Alice in Wonderland
Pride and Prejudice
Fahrenheit 451
Watchmen
Local Poetry Celebration
The Sneetches and Other Stories
I Suck at Girls
2010-2011
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Princess Bride
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
High Fidelity
Poems of Shel Silverstein
The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
The Dark Knight Returns
A People’s History of the United States
THE BUSHWICK BOOK CLUB SEATTLE / SEATTLE ARTS & LECTURES PARTNER EVENTS
2024-2025
Danez Smith
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Naomi Shihab Nye
2023-2024
Jane Hirshfield
Roger Reeves & Anastacia‑Reneé
Victoria Chang
Terrance Hayes
2022-2023
James Welch Prize (Halee Kirkwood & Melanie Marks w/ judge Elise Paschen)
Jenny Xie
Kate Baer
Chris Abani
2021-2022
Kaveh Akbar
Sherwin Bitsui & Kenzie Allen
Rita Dove
Don Mee Choi
2018-2019
Alice Walker
Danez Smith
Ilya Kaminsky
HERE: Poems for the Planet feat. Kimiko Hahn & Friends
Solmaz Sharif
Imbolo Mbue
2017-2018
Poems of Stephanie Burt
Poems of A.E. Stallings
Poems of Nikki Giovanni
Poems of Gregory Orr
Poems of Tyehimba Jess
Poems of Aimee Nezhukumatahil
2016-2017
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
Poems of Ada Limón
Emily Nussbaum
2015-2016
Poems of Mary Szybist
Poems of Robert Wrigley
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Poems of Linda Pastan
Poems of Srikanth Reddy
Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Jaqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
Teju Cole, Open City
Florian Schulz, The Wild Edge: Freedom to Roam the Pacific Coast
Poems of Claudia Rankine
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History
Annie Proulx, Barkskins
2014-2015
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Our Partners include Seattle Arts and Lectures, Humanities Washington, Washington Library Association, Seattle7Writers and more…
OTHER PARTNER EVENTS
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art: Books as art
Virgo by Shin Yu Pai
Subduction by Kristen Millares Young
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Drift Magazine Stories
Silent Spring
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jesus’ Son
STAT: Standing Tall and Talented
Humanities Washington Bedtime Stories
Poems of Claudia Castro Luna
Reservation Blues
How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets
Heartless
STYLE: Songwriting Through Youth literature Education Ignites students’ passion for literature through collaborative songwriting education.
STYLE PROJECTS
A Light in the Attic
A Long Walk to Water
All Summer in a Day
And Still I Rise
Big Red Lollipop
Casi Se Muere
Change Sings
Creepy Carrots
Creepy Pair of Underwear
Esperanza Rises
Fahrenheit 451
Frog Girl
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal
Harry Potter Series
Here I am
Here I Am
Holes
Hop on Pop
Horton Hears a Who
Inside Out and Back Again
Jabberwocky
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jumanji
Killer Whale Eyes
Kundlan
La Mariposa
Mirror
Mr. Particular
Much Ado About Nothing
Nimona
Niño Wrestles the World
One City, Two Brothers
Pink and Say
Star Wars Stories
Storm Boy
Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
The Cat in the Hat
The Darkest Dark
The Hunger Games Series
The Lightning Thief
The Lorax
The Lorax
The Outsiders
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Sneetches and Other Stories
The Thunderbird Oral Stories
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Through the Woods
Thunder Boy Jr.
To Kill a Mockingbird
We are Water Protectors
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Wild Things Are
Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears
Winnie the Pooh
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