This is going to be a looooooong post, but I wanted to make recommendations for every Taylor Swift song.* There are over 100 Taylor Swift songs, and I have read just 885 books, so this will probably be difficult. As such, I will possibly be doubling or tripling up some books that relate to multiple songs. I will be recommending books based on their likeness to the song either in style/tone or in plot/lyrics or both if applicable. Last thing: I will only be doing books I have rated 3 stars or above, so that they are truly recommendations!
*"Every" meaning every song on each of her major albums, including bonus tracks and Taylor's Version songs From the Vault. I don't include most standalone singles (I Heart ?, Beautiful Eyes, Christmas Tree Farm, etc.).
I'm publishing this list before it is even NEAR completion because I want to keep adding to it as I read good books that remind me of her songs!
Updated: 3/28/2024
Picture To Burn
Teardrops On My Guitar
A Place In This World - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Cold As You
The Outside - Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
Tied Together With A Smile - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Stay Beautiful
Should've Said No
Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
Our Song
I'm Only Me When I'm With You - Josh and Hazel's Guide To Not Dating by Christina Lauren
Invisible
A Perfectly Good Heart
Fearless
Fifteen - Twice In A Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
Love Story - If the Tide Turns by Rachel Rueckert
Hey Stephen
White Horse
You Belong With Me - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Breathe - We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
Tell Me Why
You're Not Sorry
The Way I Loved You - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
Forever and Always
The Best Day - Room by Emma Donaghue
Change - Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Jump Then Fall
Untouchable - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Come In With The Rain
Superstar - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
The Other Side of the Door - Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Today Was a Fairytale
You All Over Me
Mr. Perfectly Fine
We Were Happy
That's When
Don't You
Bye Bye Baby
Sparks Fly - Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Back To December
Speak Now
Dear John
Mean
The Story of Us - After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Never Grow Up - Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Enchanted
Better Than Revenge - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Innocent - I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane
Haunted - The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
Last Kiss
Long Live - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
If This Was a Movie
Ours - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Superman
Electric Touch
When Emma Falls in Love
I Can See You - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Castles Crumbling - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Foolish One
Timeless - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
State of Grace - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Red - Ravensong by TJ Klune
Treacherous - The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
I Knew You Were Trouble
All Too Well
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I Almost Do
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Stay Stay Stay
The Last Time
Holy Ground
Sad Beautiful Tragic - The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
The Lucky One - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Everything Has Changed - Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins
Starlight - A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell
Begin Again - One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London
The Moment I Knew - Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Come Back... Be Here - The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Girl At Home
Ronan - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Better Man - It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Nothing New - The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Babe - Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Message In A Bottle
I Bet You Think About Me
Forever Winter - The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
Run - This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
The Very First Night - Lovely War by Julie Berry
Welcome To New York - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Blank Space
Style - The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Out of the Woods
All You Had To Do Was Stay
Shake It Off
I Wish You Would
Bad Blood - Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Wildest Dreams - A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
How You Get The Girl
This Love - Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
I Know Places
Clean - We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
Wonderland - Alice In Zombieland Series by Gena Showalter
You Are In Love
New Romantics - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
End Game
I Did Something Bad - Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
Don't Blame Me - House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Delicate - The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
Look What You Made Me Do - The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
So It Goes... - Neon Gods by Katee Robert
Gorgeous - Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
Getaway Car
King Of My Heart - The Charm Offensive by Alyson Cochrun
Dancing With Our Hands Tied - The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
Dress - Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things - Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Call It What You Want - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
New Year's Day
I Forgot That You Existed
Cruel Summer - The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Lover
The Man - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Archer - This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
I Think He Knows - Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince
Paper Rings - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Cornelia Street - A Little Life by Hanya Hanagihara
Death By A Thousand Cuts
London Boy - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Soon You'll Get Better - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
False God - A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair
You Need To Calm Down - The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Afterglow - Glitterland by Alexis Hall
ME! - Me by Elton John
It's Nice To Have A Friend - The Boy In The Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Daylight - Wolfsong by TJ Klune
All of the Girls You Loved Before
Only The Young - What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
the 1 - Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
cardigan - Wolfsong by TJ Klune
the last great american dynasty
exile
my tears ricochet
mirrorball - Maame by Jessica George
seven - Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
august - Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
this is me trying - The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
illicit affairs - My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
invisible string - What If It's Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli
mad woman - Circe by Madeline Miller
epiphany - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
betty
peace - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
hoax - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
the lakes - The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
willow - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
champagne problems
gold rush - Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye
'tis the damn season - In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
tolerate it - Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler
no body, no crime - Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
happiness - Happy Place by Emily Henry
dorothea - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
coney island
ivy - Silver In The Wood by Emily Tesh
cowboy like me - The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
long story short - A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
marjorie - The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
closure - The Women by Kristin Hannah
evermore - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
right where you left me
it's time to go - It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Lavender Haze
Maroon
Anti-Hero - Solitaire by Alice Oseman
Snow on the Beach - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
You're On Your Own, Kid - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Midnight Rain - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Question...?
Vigilante Shit - The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
Bejeweled
Labyrinth - All This Time by Rachel Lippincott and Mikki Daughtry
Karma
Sweet Nothing - The Butterfly Project by Emma Scott
Mastermind - The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
The Great War - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Bigger Than the Whole Sky - Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Paris - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
High Infidelity
Glitch - Funny Story by Emily Henry
Would've, Could've, Should've - Weyward by Emilia Hart
Dear Reader
Hits Different - Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey
You're Losing Me
The Tortured Poets Department - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
Down Bad
So Long London
But Daddy I Love Him - If the Tide Turns by Rachel Rueckert
Fresh Out the Slammer
Florida!!!
Guilty as Sin? - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? - Weyward by Emilia Hart
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
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I Can Do It With a Broken Heart
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
The Alchemy - Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Clara Bow - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
The Black Dog
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The Albatross - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
How Did It End?
So High School
I Hate It Here - The Wicker King by K. Ancrum
thanK you aIMee
I Look in People's Windows - Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
The Prophecy - The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
Cassandra - Elektra by Jennifer Saint
Peter
The Bolter - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Robin - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Manuscript - My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
