“…why I’ve spent my whole life trying to put it in words.”
– “You Are in Love” from 1989 (Deluxe Edition)
We asked our friends at the Arlington Public Library to tell us about some Taylor-inspired reads they have in their collection, and WOW, what an eclectic list they created! We hope it provides literary inspiration for your summer reading list, too. Literally, check them out:
Books and Music about Taylor Swift for Kids
- Taylor Swift by Mary Molly Shea
- What You Never knew About Taylor Swift by Mandy R. Marx
- Taylor Swift by Emma Huddleston
- Taylor Swift: Every day is a fairytale by Liv Spencer
- Lullaby Renditions of Taylor Swift: Red by Baby Rockstar
Book about Taylor Swift for Adults
- Taylor Swift: This is Our Song by Tyler Conroy
Book about Other Artists
Instructional Books
- How to Write Songs on Guitar: A guitar-playing and songwriting course by Rikky Rooksby
- Song-writing without Boundaries: Lyric writing exercises for finding your voice by Pat Pattison
Books We Think Feel like Taylor Swift Songs
- “Our Song” – Alex & Eliza by Melissa De La Cruz
- “The Way I Loved You” – The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
- “You Belong with Me” – People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
- “Sparks Fly” – The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- “The Lucky Ones” – Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- “22” – Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
- “All Too Well (10-minute version) – The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- “This Love” – The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
- “Welcome to New York” – French Kissing in New York by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
- “Look What You Made Me Do” – Version Zero by David Yoon
- “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “London Boy” – The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
- “Cruel Summer” – Normal People by Sally Rooney
- “The Man” – The Power by Naomi Alderman
- “The Last Great American Dynasty” – The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
- “Mad Woman” – Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
- “No Body, No Crime” – Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
- “Champagne Problems” – Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- “You’re On Your Own, Kid” – Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
- “Snow on the Beach” – Beach Read by Emily Henry
- “Glitch” – Well, That was Unexpected by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Books Taylor Swift has Publicly Referenced or Recommended
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Furious Love by Sam Kashner
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Fault in our Stars by John Green
- The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
- Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Wonderful Tonight by Pattie Boyd
List compiled by and shared in partnership with the Arlington Public Library. Special thanks to the Downtown Arlington branch!
