Here’s a list of books Halsey has either recommended or mentioned/posted a photo of:

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [x]
• Harry Potter (has mentioned multiple times on X)

2014
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
[x] [Tweet since deleted: “.@kaylaolavarria it’s my favorite book and I definitely creeped a lot of teachers out in highschool by writing about.”] [x]

2015
• Just Kids by Patti Smith [x]
• Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous [x]
• Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger [x]
• I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max [x]
• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins [x]
• The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald [x]

2016
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer [x]
• The Wanderess by Roman Payne [x]

2017
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (shared on Snapchat)

2018
• A Lite Too Bright by Samuel Miller [x]
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne [x]

2020
• Film for Her by Orion Carloto [x]
• They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman [x]
• Donald Judd Writings by Caitlin Murray [x]
• Percy Jackson and The Olympians series by Rick Riordan [x]
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket [x]
Spider-Man comics [x]
Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller [x]

2022
• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake [x]
• Eleanor by David Michaelis [x]
• I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava (Halsey: For the Record, episode 2)
• My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh (Halsey: For the Record, episode 2)
• The Importance Of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde (Halsey: For the Record, episode 2)
• The Last Night Of The Earth Poems by Charles Bukowski (poem shared on Instagram stories)
• Living on Luck by Charles Bukowski (poem shared on Instagram stories)

2023
• Siddharta by Hermann Hesse (Ender holding book, shared on Instagram stories)

2024
• Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (Halsey DM’d author on Instagram [x])

2025
• Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran [x]
• Daughter by Claudia Day [x]
• Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. by Eve Babitz [x]
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion [x]
• A Girl’s Story by Annie Ernaux [x]
• The Lamb by Lucy Rose [x]
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney [x]
• Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates [x]
• Stop Me If You Heard This One by Kristen Arnett [x]