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Taylor Swift's Bookshelf: Gothic Novels and YA Favorites
Taylor Swift is a singer-songwriter whose albums often draw on novels, and she has talked about reading and audiobooks in interviews and at events for years. This list gathers the books she has named, from childhood favourites to the gothic mysteries with unreliable narrators she says she loves as an adult.
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier, 1938, classics
“The gothic novel she names as her kind of book, and the one behind her song Tolerate It. Start here if gothic is your taste.”
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney, 2017, contemporary
“Rooney's work, this novel included, shows up in an Entertainment Weekly interview as an influence on Swift. The note stops there; she didn't say more.”
Normal People
Sally Rooney, 2018, college students
“Swift praised Rooney for making you feel like you're sitting inside someone's mind. That's the quality to look for.”
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White, adventure
“An all-time favourite, she told a Scholastic event. The oldest kind of reading on the shelf.”
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green, 2012, contemporary
“It has inspired lyrics of hers, and one summary calls John Green her favourite author. Expect to find it in her songwriting.”
Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli, 2000, arizona
