Taylor Swift
Last updated October 14, 2026
Celebrity, Singer, Writer
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting—often inspired by her personal life—has received critical praise and widespread media coverage.
Taylor Swift's 13 Book Recommendations
- Eat, Pray, Love: “Named among the five books that shaped her life for Scholastic's You Are What You Read campaign (2010).” Source
- Conversations with Friends: “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.” Source
- The Giver: “When I read the book, it was one of those things that really changed my perspective on a lot of things. ... It really kind of blew my mind in a way that stuck with me.” Source
- Where the Crawdads Sing: “Where The Crawdads Sing is a book I got absolutely lost in when I read it years ago. ... I wanted to create something haunting and ethereal to match this mesmerizing story.” Source
- The Hunger Games: “The first thing I did was read the first book in about two days. I thought it would be an action-adventure type of thing, but it's so much more emotional than that. There's a huge amount of sadness.” Source
- To Kill a Mockingbird: “You know, you hear storytelling like in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and it just... it makes your mind wander. It makes you feel like it makes your world more vast.” Source
- Charlotte's Web: “Named among the five books that shaped her life for Scholastic's You Are What You Read campaign (2010).” Source
- Gone Girl: “I've been reading a lot of different things, but I really like [Gillian Flynn's] Gone Girl and [Jess Walter's] Beautiful Ruins. They're great stories. They kind of take you away.” Source
- Beautiful Ruins: “I've been reading a lot of different things, but I really like [Gillian Flynn's] Gone Girl and [Jess Walter's] Beautiful Ruins. They're great stories. They kind of take you away.” Source
- Stargirl: “[Stargirl's heroine] continues to be herself and pretty soon, that individuality rubs off on everyone else and they all want to be like her.” Source
- The Fault in Our Stars: “[Hazel Grace is] so smart and sarcastic and self-aware... [John Green did a good job of] painting a really really intricate, beautiful, complicated female character.” Source
- The Kennedy Women: “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.” Source
- Wonderful Tonight: “When I finished reading Pattie Boyd's incredible memoir Wonderful Tonight, I felt inspired and intrigued.” Source