Reading List
Taylor Swift
Singer-Songwriter
Taylor Swift is one of the most successful singer-songwriters of her generation, known for narrative songs that read like short stories. Literature runs through her work: her albums Folklore and Evermore borrow the moods of gothic novels, and she has often pointed to the books that shaped her imagination, from classic fiction to musicians’ memoirs. When Swift names a book, she does it as a working writer crediting the stories that taught her how to build a world in three verses and a bridge.
Conversations with Friends
by Sally Rooney · 2017 · Fiction
“I really like her book Conversations With Friends. I like the tone she takes when she's writing. I think it's like being inside somebody's mind.” — via Interview, May 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens · 2018 · Fiction
“Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago.” — via Social Post, March 2022
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins · 2008 · Fiction
“I was so sad that they were over” — via Interview, October 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee · 2006 · Fiction
“really changed the way I looked at life” — via Interview, October 2012
The Giver
by Lois Lowry · 2014 · Fiction
“When I read the book, it was one of those things that really changed my perspective.” — via Interview, August 2014
Wonderful Tonight
George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by Pattie Boyd · 2008 · Memoir
Recommended via Interview, July 2018