Like many of her fans, Taylor Swift is a major book girlie.
The pop superstar, 35, confirmed during the Wednesday, December 10, episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that she loves to read in her downtime, specifying that she listens to audiobooks “constantly.”
“It’s always a different one,” she shared. “As soon as I finish one, I start a new one.”
Swift named Rebecca—the 1938 Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier—as an example of the type of book she enjoys before listing “the elements of what I’m looking for” in a good read.
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“If you’ve got an old, rambling, shambles old British mansion covered in moss or ivy and there’s a mysterious relationship and he may not be what he seems and there’s a murder that has happened in the past but you hear whispers of it,” she said. “There’s the idea of a ghost or an actual ghost.”
Swift also appreciates stories centered around family drama and troubled romances.
“If you present me with a plot line where there’s a family compound on an island off the coast of Maine, there’s secrets in this family. This brother—what’s going on with him, why don’t we know where he’s been for 10 years, why did he just show up?” she continued. “If there’s a marriage and the marriage isn’t what it seems and it seems like this dude is clearly like, ‘Why are you with him? He’s horrible to you.’ Oh, plot twist: unreliable narrator. She’s the psycho.”
After sharing her highly specific roundup of her favorite book tropes, Swift added: “If you’ve got any of that, I’m gonna need to read that. And when I say read that, I’m gonna need someone to read that to me.”
Swift’s reading preferences came up again later in the episode when she suggested ideas for what Stephen Colbert could do after The Late Show ends in May 2026.
“I feel like you’re gonna write a really amazing mystery thriller where there’s a house and it’s covered in ivy,” she quipped. “There’s a mistress there, but actually she’s related to them, and so it’s really bad, but it’s an amazing book. But it’s grim. And then somebody falls off a cliff. Oh no, it was a ghost. … And then it turns out that they don’t actually own the island. They don’t actually own it because their father is actually his twin brother and the father died in a mysterious drowning incident.”
After jotting down notes on Swift’s idea, Colbert, 61, chimed in, “If it sells, I’ll give you half the royalties.”
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