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Books That Inspired Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo writes songs for a living and credits books for a surprising number of them. This list collects the titles she has named in interviews and on social media: heartbreak fiction, poetry, feminist nonfiction, and one very sincere Twilight confession.
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Simple Passion
Tanya Leslie, Annie Ernaux · 1991
Start here if you want to hear where the obsessive, miserable side of love on her third album came from. Ernaux keeps it short and unflinching, and Rodrigo says it fed her songs.
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 1976
She was in the middle of it during a 2026 Dazed interview, and it made her recommended list. Named without much comment on why, but it's a fine book to be caught reading.
