Tortured poets aren’t the only writers that Taylor Swift likes.
The massively popular singer-songwriter discussed her favorite types of books on the Late Show with host Stephen Colbert in a conversation about how she likes to relax.
Colbert asked Swift if she listens to audiobooks, to which she responded with an emphatic “Yes.”
“It’s always a different one,” she said. “As soon as I finish one, I’ll start a new one.…The elements of what I’m looking for—you know all the elements of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca? If you’ve got an old, rambling…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. There’s the idea of a ghost or an actual ghost.”
The audience began to laugh, and Swift continued, “If you present me with a plotline where there’s a family compound on an island off the coast of Maine—there’s secrets in this family, right? 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?...If there’s a marriage, and the marriage isn’t what it seems, and it seems like this dude is—why are you with him? He’s horrible to you. Oh, plot twist! Unreliable narrator. She’s the psycho.”
The audience laughed and applauded, and Colbert said, “That sounds like a great book.”
“If you’ve got any of that, I’m going to need to read that,” Swift said. “And when I say ‘read that,’ I’m going to need someone to read that to me.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
