This list is curated from 41 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite... or they just like talking about it a lot!
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This list is curated from 41 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite... or they just like talking about it a lot!
Last updated: .
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
There was a book called To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee that really changed the way I looked at life.
— Taylor Swift
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
After reading all the Hunger Games books I was so sad that they were over, like I wanted to read them over and over again.
— Taylor Swift
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The writing I love the most places you into that story, that room, that rain soaked kiss. You can smell the air, hear the sounds, and feel your heart race as the character’s does. It’s something F. Scott Fitzgerald did so well, to describe a scene so gorgeously interwoven with rich emotional revelations, that you yourself have escaped from your own life for a moment.
— Taylor Swift
Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
I read this book called Stargirl that is about this girl who is very different than everybody else in her school so people call her weird, but no matter how much they make fun of her she just continues to be herself and pretty soon that individuality rubs off on everybody else, they all wanna be like her. So Stargirl was an amazing book that I read.
— Taylor Swift
Harry Potter series
by J.K. Rowling
Yes, it's like, it's so good right? And everybody loves it so you don't say it much. [...] it kind of provides a source of comfort, like nostalgia. That's really interesting angle on it, you don't think about how many kids have legitimately grown up with the Harry Potter series, that's amazing!
— Taylor Swift
The Giving Tree
by Shel Silverstein
In school I became obsessed with poetry really early on because, you know, my favorite books were the Dr. Seuss books and Shel Silverstein and like you know the books were you have the stories that come together through rhyming. And that was always my favorite book to read because it sounded like a song.
— Taylor Swift
Z
by Therese Fowler
A copy of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald was observed by Taylor's bed
— Taylor Swift
The Shining
by Stephen King
>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.
— Taylor Swift
The Stand
by Stephen King
>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.
— Taylor Swift
The Dark Tower (series)
by Stephen King
>> Taylor: I never revealed this to anyone before but Hey Stephen is about Stephen King. >> Stephen: Stephen King, master of horror Stephen King, really? >> Taylor: Yes, he's amazing! The Dark Tower series changed my life, The Shining, The Stand and don't get me started on his short stories, absolutely luminescent.
— Taylor Swift
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
When you watch a film or you read a book and there's a character that you identify with, you most of the time identify with them because they're targeting something in you that feels that you've been there that's why we relate to characters and so when I was reading you know Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and I was thinking um wow her husband just tolerates her. She's doing all these things and she's trying so hard and she's trying to impress him and he's just tolerating her the whole time. There was a part of me that was you know relating to that because at some point in my life I felt that way and so I ended up writing this song "tolerate it" that's all about sort of truth trying to love someone who's ambivalent.
— Taylor Swift
Furious Love
by Sam Kashner
I read a book about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor recently, and how there was this crazy frenzy surrounding them.
— Taylor Swift
Wonderful Tonight
by Pattie Boyd
Widely considered one of the greatest muses of all time, Boyd, who was married first to George Harrison and later to Eric Clapton, inspired the hits “Something” by the Beatles, and “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight” by Clapton. Recently I devoured this intriguing woman’s memoir, Wonderful Tonight.
— Taylor Swift
Grace Kelly
by Pierre-Henri Verlhac
Taylor kept a book about Grace Kelly on her coffee table.
— Taylor Swift
The Secret Conversations
by Ava Gardner, Peter Evans
“I wanted this video to be about the making of a 1950s movie being filmed on location in Africa,” she explains. Swift came up with the concept after reading a book by Ava Gardner and Peter Evans, The Secret Conversations.
— Taylor Swift
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Recently, the summer before this one, I read The Fault in Our Stars and I loved Hazel Grace because I think she's so smart and sarcastic and self-aware and I think that just from the book being written from her perspective and its told so beautifully. I think that John Green did a really great job of painting a really, really intricate, beautiful, complicated female character.
— Taylor Swift
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
> Girl: My favorite book is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls because it showed me that there are so many different ways of living your life and there are so many different lifestyles. I never really thought of moving around because I've never had that experience and that book showed me an entire perspective on how life was and it was just so cool to read that. Taylor: Wow, I wanna read that now!
— Taylor Swift
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
When I read the book it was one of those things that really changed my perspective on a lot of things. I think when I read it I was in probably fifth grade and I didn't do a lot of thinking about the distant future as far as our society goes, you know, at that point in my life. And this really kind of switched that up for me and it really kind of blew my mind in a way that stuck with me and when I got this script I just immediately thought I'm going to say yes to this! I really hope it's a good adaptation. I hope it's a good portrayal of this because if it is, if it's anything like the effect the book had on me, then I'm going to do this.
— Taylor Swift
The Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Seuss
In school I became obsessed with poetry really early on because, you know, my favorite books were the Dr. Seuss books and Shel Silverstein and like you know the books were you have the stories that come together through rhyming. And that was always my favorite book to read because it sounded like a song.
— Taylor Swift
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
I was a big fan of fairy tales growing up and you'll see a lot of references to Romeo and Juliet and Scarlet Letter and things like that referenced in my songs and that's from my reading, that's from the stories I was brought up with.
— Taylor Swift
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was a big fan of fairy tales growing up and you'll see a lot of references to Romeo and Juliet and Scarlet Letter and things like that referenced in my songs and that's from my reading, that's from the stories I was brought up with.
— Taylor Swift
Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
I think there are a lot of books that I loved to read when I was younger that kind of teach you lessons. You know the funny ones like Amelia Bedelia or The Giving Tree which teaches you about human compassion and being kind to others
— Taylor Swift
Big Bird's Day on the Farm
by Cathi Rosenberg-Turow
[On what her favorite book was that her parents read to her] It started out when I was very little, like Big Bird on the Farm and then it was Winnie the Puh and all the classic children's poetry books and stuff like that. And fables and fairytales.
— Taylor Swift
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A.A. Milne
[On what her favorite book was that her parents read to her] It started out when I was very little, like Big Bird on the Farm and then it was Winnie the Puh and all the classic children's poetry books and stuff like that. And fables and fairytales.
— Taylor Swift
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
QUOTES-TO-LIVE-BY LIST: "Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
— Taylor Swift
Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."
— Taylor Swift
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."
— Taylor Swift
Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
"She’s been listening to tons of Carly Simon (who just joined her onstage in Massachusetts) and devouring novels, from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night to Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins. “They’re great stories, and they kind of take you away,” she says."
— Taylor Swift
Broken Open
by Elizabeth Lesser
In her bedroom, in which everything was white and fluffy, she had a copy of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow (2005), by Elizabeth Lesser.
— Taylor Swift
The Kennedy Women
by Laurence Leamer
I just read a 900-page book called The Kennedy Women, which dates back to the lineage of the first Kennedys coming from Ireland in the 1800s.
— Taylor Swift
Who Will Cry When You Die?
by Robin Sharma
Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin S Sharma. It’s a self-help book but it’s an easy read. Every page has a new thing you can do to show the people you love that they matter to you. It makes you appreciate what you have. I have a lot more good days now that I’ve read that.
— Taylor Swift
Talking to the Sky
by Aimee Mayo
@aimeemayo, kellie's right. Your book is going to change the world. You tell the best stories, and your life is like a movie. I miss you!
— Taylor Swift
