Missed the Eras Tour? Here is a fun Taylor Swift-inspired list of fun teen reads for each of her iconic eras. From the small-town stories to the magical, there is certainly a book (and a song) for everyone! Featuring a lyric from every album.

Taylor Swift
“I’m Just a Girl, Trying to Find a Place in This World”

A young woman with long curly blonde hair looks at the camera. The background is green and blue with floral designs. "Taylor Swift" is written in white cursive text at the bottom. Book cover of "You Should See Me in a Crown" by Leah Johnson, featuring a smiling young Black woman with a yellow crown drawn above her head on a purple background.

You Should See Me In A Crown by Leah Johnson

Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy and prom-obsessed Midwestern high school. After all, her family is black and quite poor, especially since her mother’s death. Instead, she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that this will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra, where she plans to study medicine. However, when that scholarship falls through, she is forced to turn to her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media she hates but leads her to discover more about her own identity and the value of true friendships.

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Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
“Take a Deep Breath and Walk Through the Doors…”

Person with long hair wearing a light blouse stands outdoors, head tilted back and eyes closed, with hair blowing in the wind under a sepia-toned filter. Three teenagers, two boys and one girl, sit and lean on a stone sign in front of a school building with trees; the book cover reads "Something More" by Jackie Khalilieh.

Something More by Jackie Khalilieh

Fifteen-year-old Jessie is a quirky loner with a fascination for the nineties. Just weeks before starting high school, she receives an autism diagnosis. Determined to begin anew and keep her diagnosis private, Jessie devises a list of goals, ranging from shaping her eyebrows distinctively, to experiencing a magical first kiss and securing a role in the school play. As she navigates through Holy Trinity High’s hallways, she discovers a world where things are no longer black and white. Living in color becomes much more enjoyable. However, Jessie finds herself facing unexpected challenges when two very different boys capture her heart, causing her life to veer off-script.

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Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
“I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you!”

A woman with wavy light brown hair poses with her back partially turned, wearing a flowing purple tulle garment against a dark background. Book cover for "Legendborn" by Tracy Deonn features a young Black woman with curly hair, glowing red and blue magical energy around her hands, and mystical symbols in the background.

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Seeking an escape from her past life after her mother’s accidental death, 16-year-old Bree decides to enroll in a program for high school students at the local university. However, her plans take an unexpected turn when she becomes a witness to a magical attack that unveils her hidden powers. Alongside this revelation, Bree starts to uncover sinister truths about her mother’s death.

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Red (Taylor’s Version)
“Flashbacks and Echoes. Tell Myself it’s Time Now… Time to Let go…”

A woman wearing a tan coat and a brown cap sits in a car, adjusting her hat with one hand and looking to the side. Book cover of "These Violent Delights" by Chloe Gong, featuring a gold dragon and red roses entwined around a sword on a black background.

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.

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1989:
“Screaming, Crying, Perfect Storm.”

A polaroid-style photo of a person wearing a sweatshirt with flying birds, red lipstick, and "T.S. 1989" handwritten at the bottom. Book cover of "Tiny Pretty Things" by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton, featuring pink script text on a dark background with the tagline "Perfection comes at a price.

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton

Gigi, Bette, and June are three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet school, and they have experienced their fair share of drama. Gigi, a free-spirited new girl, simply yearns to dance, but doing so might jeopardize her life. Bette, hailing from a privileged New York background, strives to break free from her ballet star sister’s shadow, which pushes her to embrace a dangerous side. Meanwhile, June, a perfectionist, must secure a lead role this year, or her controlling mother will quash her dancing aspirations forever.

In a world where every dancer is both a friend and a foe, these girls are willing to make sacrifices, manipulate, and even backstab each other in their pursuit of being the best of the best.

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Reputation:
“I Swear I don’t love the Drama, It Loves me!”

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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, starts her first year at a prestigious private school in Vermont, she devises a plan to unravel the cold case surrounding the kidnapping of the founder’s wife and daughter, which occurred shortly after the school’s opening.

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Lover:
“Can I go Where You Go?”

A person with blonde hair and a white shirt stands against a pastel sky background with the word “Lover” written above in cursive. Illustrated cover of "Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute" by Talia Hibbert, featuring a girl and boy with backpacks standing in front of trees on a pink background.

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

To claim the grand prize at the conclusion of their survival course, ex-best friends Claire and Bradley embark on a journey through mud, dirt, and their complicated past. Along the way, they discover an adventure that not only brings them closer together but also ignites a whole new kind of relationship.

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Folklore:
“And if I’m Dead to You, Why Are You at the Wake?”

A person stands alone in a misty forest surrounded by tall trees with light filtering through the branches. Book cover for "The Shadow Sister" by Lily Meade featuring a young woman’s face surrounded by purple and blue flowers and a blue butterfly, with the tagline: "She came back. Is it a miracle... or a curse?.

The Shadow Sister by Lily Meade

When Casey’s sister goes missing, she is compelled to feign that Sutton was a perfect sister, even though they harbored a mutual dislike for each other. However, when Sutton returns under mysterious circumstances with no recollection of her whereabouts, Casey begins delving into her sister’s hidden secrets.

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Evermore:
“My Mind Turns Your Life Into Folklore”

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Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow faces a daunting encounter with Death and her own deathly powers as she delves into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the Thorn Grove estate, involving one of her relatives.

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Midnights:
“Everything you lose is a step you take.”

A woman with glittery blue eyeshadow looks down while holding a lighter close to her face. Text on the left lists song titles under the heading "Midnights. Illustrated book cover for "We Deserve Monuments" by Jas Hammonds, featuring a young woman with curly hair, sunflowers, and a night sky background.

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in “We Deserve Monuments,” a YA debut from Jas Hammonds that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.

What’s more important: knowing the truth or keeping the peace?

Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she’s uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty makes for a frosty arrival and unearths past drama they refuse to talk about. Every time Avery tries to look deeper, she’s turned away, leaving her desperate to learn the secrets that split her family in two.

While tempers flare in her avoidant family, Avery finds friendship in unexpected places: with Simone Cole, her captivating next-door neighbor, and Jade Oliver, the daughter of the town’s most prominent family—whose mother’s murder remains unsolved.

As the three girls grow closer—Avery and Simone’s friendship blossoming into romance—the sharp-edged opinions of their small southern town begin to hint at something insidious underneath. The racist history of Bardell, Georgia, is rooted in Avery’s family in ways she can’t even imagine. With Mama Letty’s health dwindling every day, Avery must decide if digging for the truth is worth toppling the delicate relationships she’s built in Bardell—or if some things are better left buried.

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