Dear Reader: Check Out These Books That Share a Title with Taylor Swift Songs!

Book Jacket: Never Ever Getting Back Together

never ever getting back together by Sophie Gonzales

Shares a title with the smash hit from Red “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together”, famously written about an on again off again relationship she was in at the time. - When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls-one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance-get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales.

call it what you want by Brigid Kemmerer

Call It What You Want shares a title with one of the more raw and vulnerable songs on Reputation. Written when her world was falling apart, she had moved to a different country and met her long-term boyfriend at the time. Taylor wrote about everything falling apart around her, but it was okay because she was happy at home. - When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father’s failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever, but she has a secret of her own after the pressure got to her last year. And when her sister comes home from college pregnant, keeping it from her parents might be more than she can handle. When Rob and Maegan are paired together for a calculus project, they’re both reluctant to let anyone through the walls they’ve built. But when Maegan learns of Rob’s plan to fix the damage caused by his father, it could ruin more than their fragile new friendship... This captivating, heartfelt novel asks the question: Is it okay to do something wrong for the right reasons?

call it what you want by Alissa DeRogatis

Also sharing its name with “Call It What You Want” from Reputation is this novel. - Call It What You Want is a nostalgic ode to all ‘almost love’ stories- the ones with no label, no title but an undeniable intensity. Call it what you want, was it love? Sloane Hart is a hopeless romantic who always believed her great love story was out there, until her parents’ divorce shattered that dream. She swears off dating and is determined to graduate college, become a writer and move to New York City. Until she meets Ethan. Ethan Brady is guarded and mysterious, unwilling to talk about his past or let anyone get too close. As they start dating without labels, they both know it can’t last forever. Sloane imagines a future with Ethan but he can’t give her the commitment she needs. Will she be able to convince Ethan to take a chance on it? Or will she have to learn the hard way that some things just aren’t meant to be? Sloane and Ethan’s story is a bittersweet tale of love and self-discovery that explores the complexities of relationships and the challenges of moving on.

dear john by Nicholas Sparks

Dear John shares the same name with… “Dear John” on Speak Now. This is one of those instances where the book came first actually. Taylor wrote this song very famously about John Mayer, titling it Dear John as a play on his name and the theme of Dear John letters, like in this novel. - An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love-and face the hardest decision of his life.

Book Jacket: Don't Want You Like A Best Friend

don't want you like a best friend by Emma R. Alban

This book shares its title with a lyric from “Dress” from Taylor’s album reputation. A song full of pure yearning and want for another person. - A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other-the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed!

Book Jacket: You're the Problem, It's You

you're the problem, it's you by Emma R. Alban

This is a play on the lyrics from Taylor’s hit song “Anti-Hero” from her album Midnights. Taylor famously sings “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me” in Anti-Hero. The song is about being alone with your thoughts and your criticisms about yourself. It plays in her insecurities, anxieties, and imposter syndrome - The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, in which a young lord and a second son clash, but find themselves thrust together again and again by their meddling cousins.

enchanted to meet you by Meg Cabot

This book shares its title with a lyric from “Enchanted” on her Speak Now album “And I was enchanted to meet you”. Famously the only song from Speak Now to make it on to the Eras Tour. Our girl Taylor wrote a gorgeous 6-minute-long song inspired by her briefly meeting a man at a party and then thinking about it all night when she got home. - A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force-but will she be able to protect her heart?

how you get the girl by Anita Kelly

The book shares its title with one of the lesser-known songs from, what is heralded as the pop bible,1989. How you get the girl is Taylor Swift explaining to someone to win someone else back after they make a mistake. - When smart-mouthed Vanessa Lerner joins the high school basketball team Julie Parker coaches, Julie’s ready for the challenge. What she’s not ready for is Vanessa’s new foster parent, Elle Cochrane-former University of Tennessee basketball star. While star-struck at first, soon Julie persuades Elle to step into the unfilled position of assistant coach for the year. Even though Elle has stayed out of the basketball world since an injury ended her short-lived WNBA career, the gig might be a way to become closer to Vanessa-and to spend more time with Julie, who makes Elle laugh. As the coaches grow closer, Elle has a hard time understanding how Julie is single. When Julie reveals her lifelong insecurity about dating and how she wishes it was more like sports-being able to practice first-it sparks an intriguing idea. While Elle still doubts her abilities as a basketball coach, helping Julie figure out dating is definitely something she can do. But as the basketball season progresses, and lines grow increasingly blurred, Julie and Elle must decide to join the game-or retreat to the sidelines.

say you'll remember me by Abby Jimenez

This book shares its title with a line from the smash hit “Wildest Dreams” off her 1989 album. “Say you’ll remember me standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset babe”. It’s about a relationship that she knows is doomed to end and can’t work but was worth doing anyway and remembering. - There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes-all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. Like, really wrong. Of course, there’s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong… . . . unless, of course, he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible and seemingly endless date-possibly the best in living history-Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that her family is in crisis and any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one single perfect memory is to make a life-and even a love-worth remembering.

out of the woods by Hannah Bonam-Young

Out of the Woods is another smash hit off her album 1989. Out of the Woods was about her relationships being so watched and scrutinized that every day you just wake up and wonder if that’s the day people stop talking about it, are they out of the woods of all that chaos yet. - High school sweethearts Sarah and Caleb Linwood have always been a sure thing. For the past seventeen years, they have had each other’s backs through all of life’s ups and downs, achievements, losses, stages, and phases. But Sarah has begun to wonder... Who is she without her other half? When she decides to take on a project of her own, a fundraising gala in memoriam of her late mother, Sarah wants nothing more than to prove to herself-and to everyone else-that she doesn’t need Caleb’s help to succeed. She’s still her mother’s daughter, after all. Independent and capable. That is until the event fails and Caleb uninvitedly steps in to save the day. The rift that follows unearths a decade of grievances between them and doubts begin to grow. Are they truly the same people they were when they got married at nineteen? Are they supposed to be? In a desperate attempt to fix what they fear is near breaking, Sarah and Caleb make the spontaneous decision to join a grueling hiking trip intended to guide couples through rough patches. What follows is a life-affirming comedy of errors as two nature-averse people fight their way out of the woods in order to find their way back to their roots.

it's a love story by Annabel Monaghan

This book shares a title with arguably one of her biggest hits “Love Story” from her first album of the year award winner Fearless. It is a very cinematic song about, quite literally, a love story. She compares them to Romeo and Juliet, finding young love and running off with each other despite any obstacles. This is essentially “But Daddy I Love Him” from The Tortured Poets Department’s younger sister. - From the USA Today bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script, a novel about a former adolescent TV punchline who has left her awkwardness in the rearview mirror thanks to a fake-it-till-you-make-it mantra that has her on the cusp of success, until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash-course with her past, spending a week in Long Island with the last man she thinks might make her believe in love.

begin again by Emma Lord

This song shares its title with the closing track of Taylor’s Red album. A song about finding herself after heartbreak and finding happiness again. A song of reminiscing on everything that went wrong but no longer letting it dampen her hope for the future. - As usual, Andie Rose has a plan: Transfer from community college to the hyper competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and maintain her lifelong goal of becoming an iconic self-help figure despite the nerves that have recently thrown her for a loop. All it will take is ruthless organization, hard work, and her trademark unrelenting enthusiasm to pull it all together. But the moment Andie arrives, the rest of her plans go off the rails. Her rocky relationship with her boyfriend Connor only gets more complicated when she discovers he transferred out of Blue Ridge to her community college. Her roommate Shay needs a major, and despite Andie’s impressive track record of being The Fixer, she’s stumped on how to help. And Milo, her coffee-guzzling grump of an R.A. with seafoam green eyes, is somehow disrupting all her ideas about love and relationships one sleep-deprived wisecrack at a time. But sometimes, when all your plans are in rubble at your feet, you find out what you’re made of. And when Andie starts to find the power of her voice as the anonymous Squire on the school’s legendary pirate radio station–the same one her mom founded, years before she passed away–Andie learns that not all the best laid plans are necessarily the right ones. Filled with a friend group that feels like family, an empowering journey of finding your own way, and a Just Kiss Already! romance, Begin Again is an unforgettable novel of love and starting again.

begin again by Helly Acton

Also sharing its name with Begin Again is this novel - Have you ever wanted to change the past and discover the result of choices not taken? Now, in this brilliantly fun novel of what-ifs, missed chances, and new beginnings, Frankie McKenzie discovers what starting over might bring…

long story short by Serena Kaylor

This book shares it title with “Long Story Short” on her surprise album Evermore. Long Story Short has more of an upbeat sound than most of Evermore, but it’s a song about a time in her life where it seemed like everything would end but here she is almost 10 years later, thriving and surviving. - In this sparkling debut from Serena Kaylor, Long Story Short is a YA rom-com about a homeschooled math genius who finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life-and love-can’t be lived by the (text)book.

you belong with me by Mhairi McFarlane

This book shares its title with the mega smash hit of the same name from her album Fearless. The song is about romantic feelings for a long-time friend and how she thinks they would make a better couple. - International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a charming, hilarious, and heartfelt new novel about a woman adjusting to life in the spotlight when she begins a relationship with a famous actor, in this highly anticipated follow-up to Who's That Girl.

look what you made me do by Elaine Murphy

“Look What You Made Me Do” was the surprise lead single from Reputation. Taylor retreated from the public for years after her famous feud with the Wests. I use the word feud lightly; Taylor was done dirty. Taylor popped up years later with Look What You Made Me Do to basically say I’m back, and I won’t apologize for how I will be acting because you made me this way - A gripping thriller about a woman who must help cover the tracks of her serial killer sister -- only to discover her sibling isn't the only serial killer in town . . . and they're both next on his kill list.

cruel summer by Maisey Yates

This book shares the same title with what was a sleeper hit of Taylor’s. “Cruel Summer” was on her album Lover but wasn’t released as a single until several years later. Cruel Summer is about one of those intense, fleeting, summer romances - There are no rules this cruel summer… “I think we should see other people…” That one sentence unravels Samantha Parker’s perfect life. She has a loving husband, three wonderful kids and a comfortable suburban lifestyle. But on the brink of their long-awaited empty-nest chapter, Will asks Samantha for something she never dreamed an open marriage. Desperate to keep her husband happy, Samantha proposes a summerlong separation with no contact. She knows she has to use the opportunity to find herself, but she also has no interest in being with anyone but Will. She’s confident when the season is over, they’ll get back together like this time never happened. Then Sam gets an offer of adventure from an unlikely Logan Martin, a classic-car restorer who happens to be Will’s best friend, asks Sam to help him drive across the country to make deliveries. Logan and Sam have never had an easy relationship. He’s prickly, aloof and a little too handsome. And as they traverse the winding roads and breathtaking backdrops of North America, her changing connection with Logan challenges everything she believed she wanted in life, love and passion. When her summer with Logan is up, will she go home to the familiar stability of her past…or choose the thrilling uncertainty of her future?

i wish you would by Eva Des Lauriers

“I Wish You Would” is another slept on hit from her album 1989. Taylor writes about looking at a past failed relationship and just wishing she could change the past and change what they both did to make the relationship end. - In this drama-filled romance novel, the senior class's private confessions are scattered on the beach during a school overnight and explosive secrets threaten to tear everyone apart, including best friends ( . . . or maybe more?) Natalia and Ethan.

i did something bad by Pyae Moe Thet War

“I Did Something Bad” is a powerful song off her album Reputation. Taylor used this song to sort of poke fun at all the things the media was vilifying her for before Reputation. She dropped “I Did Something Bad” to sort of be like oh you say I did something bad? Sure go ahead and think that. - In this smart and swoony adventure rom-com, a journalist and a movie star find themselves teaming up to cover up a murder...and falling for each other in the process.

no body no crime by Tess Sharpe

On her album Evermore “No Body No Crime” is one of Taylors more fictionalized songs, and it sounds like a great movie. Her best friend disappears, and she knows it was the husband, so she needs to make the husband disappear… - Murder either bonds you or breaks you. Rural PI Mel Tillman knows this well. She's seen her fair share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. But killing with someone? That is a different kind of mess all together, and Mel's got real experience with it. No one's heard from Toby Dunne since Chloe Harper's sweet sixteen party--because the birthday girl and sixteen-year-old Mel buried him so deep in the backwoods, no one's ever finding him. Mel loses little sleep over it--Toby had been terrorizing them. What she does lose sleep over is Chloe, the girl with whom she survived that horrible night in the woods. Chloe, the girl she fell in love with. Chloe, the girl who disappeared and hasn't been seen in more than six years. Tasked with locating Chloe by her family, Mel can't resist the call of a good chase, or finding the one who got away with her heart (and with murder). When Mel finds an armed and vigilant Chloe living off-grid in a highly booby-trapped patch of Canadian wilderness, she realizes that Chloe had been expecting someone other than her ex to come looking for her. The thing that's kept Chloe going for years is that she's kept Mel safe by running. Now, the truth must come out as they run for their lives once again. Because when they buried Toby Dunne in the backwoods, they buried something else, too. Something Toby took. And the powerful family he stole it from? They'll do anything to get it back.

the other side of the door by Nicci French

The novel shares its name from one of Taylor’s earlier songs off her album Fearless. The song is about a relationship falling apart because she is too stubborn to admit what she wants and needs, causing the other person to pull away. - Who is more dangerous? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover? Bonnie Graham stands in the open door of her friend's apartment. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood on the floor. What happened? What will Bonnie do now? Whom can she turn to? And what role has she played in the murderous events

message in a bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Message In a Bottle shares its name with one of the vault tracks on Red (Taylor’s Version). The song is about the anxiety of falling in love and wondering if the other person feels the same way. All Taylor can do is put a message in a bottle about her feelings and hope that the other person picks it up. - Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks's storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...

the lucky one by Nicholas Sparks

Does Taylor love Nicholas Sparks?? The Lucky One is also a song on Taylor’s album Red. The Lucky One is one of her songs about fame in general (think Clara Bow). It is about how the media treats artists, and how it seems like they have it all, but they never talk about the hard parts of fame. Does it sound familiar…. (this is the story of a girl named Lucky….) - When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it back to the base for someone to claim, but when no one does, he finds himself always carrying the photo in his pocket. Soon Thibault experiences a sudden streak of luck-winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat that kills two of his closest buddies. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph-his lucky charm. Back home in Colorado, Thibault can’t seem to get the photo-and the woman in it-out of his mind. Believing that she somehow holds the key to his destiny, he sets out on a journey across the country to find her, never expecting the strong but vulnerable woman he encounters in Hampton, North Carolina-Elizabeth, a divorced mother with a young son-to be the girl he’s been waiting his whole life to meet. Caught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate and all-consuming love affair, the secret he is keeping will soon threaten to tear them apart-destroying not only their love, but also their lives. Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, The Lucky One is Nicholas Sparks at his best-an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.

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