What to read based on your favourite Taylor Swift album

Posted on 9 May 2023

With clips from the Eras tour dominating everybody’s TikTok FYP at the moment, we couldn’t help but recommend the best books to read based on your favourite Taylor Swift albums! From the heartbreak and teenage angst of Fearless (Taylor’s Version) to the fairy-tale magic of Folklore, keep reading to find out which books you should read after listening to each of these iconic albums.


To All The Boys I've Loved Before: FILM TIE IN EDITION

Debut

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han


Swift’s debut album is all about the highs and lows of high school—from romance and heartbreak to making friends and fitting in—and no one knows these struggles better than Lara Jean in Jenny Han’s best-selling book To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before!

Lara Jean keeps a secret love letter for every boy she’s ever loved in a hatbox her mother gave her. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control!

The Language of Seabirds

Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

The Language of Seabirds by Will Taylor


If you’re a fan of all the songs about love, heartbreak and friendship from the Fearless (Taylor’s Version) album, then you’ll love Will Taylor’s tender middle-grade story about a blossoming summer romance between two boys!

Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon until one day he meets Evan. What starts out as friendship blooms into something neither boy is expecting … and also something both boys have been secretly hoping for.

The Agency for Scandal

Speak Now

The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood


Whether you love the heartfelt romance of ‘Enchanted’ or the triumphant lyrics of ‘Long Live’, Swift’s Speak Now perfectly encapsulates the adventures of Izzy, Max, and the Aviary in Laura Wood’s The Agency for Scandal.

Isobel Stanhope is keeping a lot of secrets. There’s the fact that she’s head over heels in love with a Duke who doesn’t know she exists; there’s the fact that her family is penniless but nobody in society knows about it; and then there’s her job at the Aviary, an investigative agency run by women that specializes in digging up scandal on powerful men.

The Girl With No Soul

Red (Taylor’s Version)

The Girl With No Soul by Morgan Owen


From identity struggles to relationship angst, you’ll definitely want to read Morgan Owen’s debut fantasy, The Girl With No Soul, after listening to Swift’s heart breaking album Red (Taylor’s Version).

If they shine their lanterns on you, your soul is projected for the world to see… and judge. But Iris has a deadly secret … she is a hollow, a person with no soul. When she’s sent to steal a ring said to hold the memory of a soul’s destruction, she is reunited with her Spark – one of the five parts that make up her own missing soul. Now she must track down the other four missing pieces of her soul, all the while evading The Order. Will she be able to protect her heart as well as find her soul?

Fire Becomes Her

1989

Fire Becomes Her by Rosiee Thor


If you love the synth-pop sound of 1989 and want to experience more of all the glamour, heartbreak and sacrifice that comes with being in the spotlight, then look no further than Rosiee Thor’s YA fantasy, Fire Becomes Her.

With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground—and seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis wants her fair share. A lavish fantasy novel with a Jazz Age spark, a politically savvy teen must weigh her desire to climb the social ladder against her heart in a world where magic buys votes.

The Immortal Games

Reputation

The Immortal Games by Annaliese Avery


Swift’s Reputation covers themes of vengeance and drama, taking on a darker tone that wholly reflects the world and characters of Annaliese Avery’s new romantasy, The Immortal Games.

17-year-old Ara is determined to get revenge on the Gods of Olympus who let her sister die in The Immortal Games: an epic set of games where randomly-selected humans are used as Tokens for the Gods. As the chosen Token of Hades, Ara finds that the stakes are high and the games brutal. Can she put aside her rage and survive?

This Time It's Real

Lover

This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang


Eliza and Caz’s sweet love story in Ann Liang’s This Time It’s Real perfectly complements tracks like ‘Paper Rings’ and ‘Lover’, making this the ultimate YA romance for fans of Lover!

When 16-year-old Eliza Lin’s personal essay about meeting the love of her life goes viral, she gets everything she’s ever wanted. The only problem? Eliza made the whole essay up. Desperate to cover up the truth, Eliza makes a deal with her classmate Caz: she’ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. But Caz plays the role of boyfriend a bit too well…

Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair

Folklore

Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair by Ella McLeod


Just like Swift’s album, Folklore, Ella McLeod’s stunning debut, Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair touches upon myths and legends, opening up readers to an enchanting and fractured fairy tale world.

You’re fifteen, you spend your time at school and at Val’s hair salon. The salon is a space of safety, but also of possibility and dreams… Dreams of hair so rich and alive that it grow upwards and outwards into a wild landscape, becomes trees and leaves, and houses birds and butterflies and all the secret creatures that belong in such a forest. Is there a future where such possibility and power is more than just a dream?

The Raven Boys

Evermore

The Raven Cycle #1: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater


Journey into a world of lore and legend in Maggie Stievater’s The Raven Boys, reminiscent of the haunting songs of forbidden love and magic in Evermore.

Part of a clairvoyant family, Blue has spent sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will die. So when she meets Gansey’s spirit on the corpse road, Blue knows that either he is her true love – or she has killed him. Blue never fully believed in the prophecy. But as she is caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

The Half Life of Love (Working Title)

Midnights

The Half-Life of Love by Brianna Bourne


Centred around moments of love and heartbreak, Brianna Bourne’s achingly beautiful romance story, The Half-Life of Love is perfect for fans of Swift’s latest album, Midnights.

Flint knows he will die at 16 so he’s never really tried to live. Science-obsessed September is still grieving the death of her younger sister who “half-lifed” the previous year. Chance brings the two together. But time’s running out – will their connection prove extraordinary enough to last beyond those last few weeks, or is their time together destined to end in heartbreak?

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