Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Taylor Swift Inspired Book Recommendations

 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


Tim McGraw

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

Mine

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

22

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

...Ready For It? - Crier's War by Nina Varela

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


Fortnight

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



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