Taylor Swift: Album by Album
By (Author) Kase Wickman
By (author) Joanna Weiss
By (author) Moira McAvoy
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Motorbooks
4th November 2025
9th October 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Popular music
B
Hardback
192
Width 190mm, Height 246mm, Spine 20mm
889g
If you're a passionate Swiftie who wants to know EVERYTHING about your favorite icon-especially her music-this luxuriously illustrated deep dive should take center stage.
Featuring fresh insights from all eleven studio albums-from Taylor SwifttoThe Tortured Poets Department-Taylor Swift: Album by Album mines her life, lyrics, and music like nothing else before it. This book also features several chapters on all the Taylor's Version albums released to date, with panel discussions from noted Swift scholars accompanied by vibrant photography that captures Swift in each and every era, from an aspiring country musician to the dominant global force she is today.
Swift's artistry, awards, and accolades are hard to encompass, from the youngest artist with a No. 1 song on the Hot Country chart to the first recipient of Billboard's Woman of the Decade award. Swifties will find that and more inside, including:
Fresh insight into her lyrics, life, and loves from her earliest days as a recording artistTons of sidebars that explore her influences, lyrical references, musical knowledge, and moreDetails on album personnel, special guests, awards, and toursA special section on theTaylor's Version albums that explains how they came about and why they matter to Taylor and scores of Swifties everywhere
Taylor Swift: Album by Album is more than just pretty pictures; it's a door into how and why this talented musician continues to inspire fans around the world. Young or old, OG or new Swiftie, this book has it all.
Kase Wickman is a culture journalist, editor, and author. Her reporting, criticism, and commentary has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine, among other publications. She is the culture & society reporter at Vanity Fair, and her first book, BRING IT ON: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously), was published in 2022 by Chicago Review Press. Kase lives on the East Coast with her husband, daughter, and 12-foot-tall lawn skeleton, Terror Swift.Joanna Weiss is a Boston-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in Politico, The Atlantic, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and the book Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election. Her Boston Magazine story, "For Those Moms About to Rock," about the rock band she formed with four working-mom friends during the pandemic, has been optioned for film, with a comedy in development at 20th Century Studios. She thinks of Taylor Swift as a model for songwriting, though she will likely never write a 10-minute-version of anything.Moira McAvoy lives, writes, and markets shows in Washington, D.C. A founding editor of Bad For You, McAvoy has also served on the editorial staff of NANO Fiction and The Rappahannock Review, and her work can be found in The Rumpus, The Financial Diet, wig-wag, and elsewhere. When not attending her next favorite concert-or promoting yours-Moira can be found taking long walks, making memes, and testing theories about Taylor Swift's music. McAvoy is currently within the top 500 all-time global listeners for five different Swift tracks (and counting).