Taylor Swift’s evermore has some incredibly rich storytelling that makes it easy to think of books that relate to the songs. Here are 10 book recommendations based on your favourite song from evermore.
If you like COWBOY LIKE ME then you should read THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE
In France, 1714, Addie LaRue is a desperate young woman being forced into marriage who makes a deal with the darkness that results in her being able to live forever but to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Over the years, Addie goes an adventure through countries and continents, being forgotten by everyone and developing relationship with the one person who can remember her – the one who cursed her. Until one day, she walks into a bookshop and the man behind the counter remembers her name.
You’re a cowboy like me
Perched in the dark
Tellin’ all the rich folks anything they wanna hear
Like it could be love
I could be the way forward
Only if they pay for it
You’re a bandit like me
If you like CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS then you should read HAPPY PLACE
Harriet and Wyn have been the seemingly perfect couple ever since they met in college. Except that they broke up 6 months ago and still haven’t told their friends.
When they’re both invited on the annual friend group trip, they agree to keep their relationship status a secret until the end in order to not ruin the trip so are forced to pretend that they’re still the perfect couple for the duration of the trip.
Because I dropped your hand while dancing
Left you out there standing
Crestfallen on the landing
Champagne problems
Your mom’s ring in your pocket
My picture in your wallet
Your heart was glass, I dropped it
If you like GOLD RUSH then you should read THE IDEA OF YOU
Solene Marchand is a 39-year-old mother and the owner of an LA art gallery who reluctantly takes her daughter to see world-famous boyband, August Moon, where they get the opportunity to meet the band. The last thing Solene expects is to make a connection with any of the members, but Hayes is clever, kind, confident and pretty posh and she’s attracted to him immediately. He’s also only 20 years old.
Solene and Hayes quickly begin a secret but passionate relationship that takes Solene all over the world, but as the relationship is forced into the public eye they’re forced to deal with rabid fans … and the fact that her daughter is obsessed with Hayes.
I don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch
Everybody wants you
Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you
Walk past, quick brush
I don’t like slow motion, double vision in rose blush
I don’t like that falling feels like flying ’til the bone crush
Everybody wants you
But I don’t like a gold rush
If you like HAPPINESS then you should read EVERY SUMMER AFTER
Percy grew up spending every summer at her family’s lake house where she becomes close to the boy that lives next door, Sam Florek. Over six summers, Percy and Sam became inseparable and eventually fell in love before it all fell apart.
Years later, Percy has returned to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral and their connection is as undeniable as it had always been.
There’ll be happiness after you
But there was happiness because of you too
Both of these things can be true
There is happiness
If you like LONG STORY SHORT then you should read THE VIEW WAS EXHAUSTING
Win is a British-Indian actress who is no stranger to scandal. But everytime she nears controversy, her team bring out Leo Milanowski, a jet-setting playboy, who has acted as her on-again, off-again boyfriend for the past decade. Their romance has captured the interests of the media and public for years. But it’s all fake.
Win needs his help again, so he agrees to show up. But this time he’s hiding a secret that could ruin everything.
And I fell from the pedestal
Right down the rabbit hole
Long story short, it was a bad time
Pushed from the precipice
Clung to the nearest lips
Long story short, it was the wrong guy
If you like WILLOW then you should read DIVINE RIVALS
After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But Iris Winnow is more focused on helping her mother, who is an addict, and her brother, who has disappeared from the front lines. She’s been using her magical type writer to send letters to him in the hopes that he will find his way back home.
She works at the Oath Gazette where she is competing against Roman Kitt for a promotion. But unbeknownst to Irish, her letters have ended up in Roman’s hands and he begins writing her back under an alias.
The more that you say, the less I know
Wherever you stray, I follow
I’m begging for you to take my hand
Wreck my plans, that’s my man
If you like RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME then you should read THE INFERNAL DEVICES (SERIES)
Set in 1878, Tessa Gray has arrived in London in search of her brother. She immediately gets into trouble and is saved by Will and Jem, mysterious demon hunters called Shadowhunters. They find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organisation of vampires, demons, warlocks and humans, and must figure out a way to stop them before it’s too late
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
Time went on for everybody else, she won’t know it
She’s still twenty-three inside her fantasy
How it was supposed to be
If you like TIS THE DAMN SEASON then you should read NORMAL PEOPLE
Connell is popular and well-liked, Marianna is lonely and very private. They attend the same high school but never interact there, but when Connell picks up his mother from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house they develop a connection that neither of them can deny.
A year later, they’e attending the same college where Marianna is thriving, and Connell is on the sidelines, struggling to fit in. But they soon find themselves drawn back together.
So we could call it even
You could call me “babe” for the weekend’Tis the damn season
write this down
I’m stayin’ at my parents’ house
And the road not taken looks real good now
And it always leads to you and my hometown
If you like TOLERATE IT then you should read A DOWRY OF BLOOD
Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a peasant into a bride fit for Dracula. Constanta is Dracula’s first wife, and as he brings new people into their life she begins to understand that he is capable of terrible things.
As she takes comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, they all begin to unravel their husband’s dark secrets.
I wait by the door like I’m just a kid
Use my best colors for your portrait
Lay the table with the fancy shit
And watch you tolerate it
If it’s all in my head, tell me now
Tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow
I know my love should be celebrated
But you tolerate it
If you like DOROTHEA then you should read YOU AND ME ON VACATION
Poppy and Alex were inseparable since they met at college and every year they go on vacation together. Except that last time they went something happened and they haven’t spoken since.
Two years later, Poppy has everything she could ever want but she’s stuck in a rut. The last time she was truly happy was on her final trip with Alex. So, she convinces him to go on one more trip together to try to fix their relationship
Hey, Dorothea, do you ever stop and think about me?
When we were younger, down in the park
Honey, makin’ a lark of the misery
You got shiny friends since you left town
A tiny screen’s the only place I see you now
And I got nothin’ but well wishes for ya
