Here they are: 

1. “The Way We Live Now,” Anthony Trollope
2. “Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” Thomas Hardy
3. “The Magic Mountain,” Thomas Mann
4. “Love in the Ruins,” Walker Percy
5. “Madame de Pompadour,” Nancy Mitford
6. “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh,” John Lahr
7. “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C. S. Lewis
8. “Madame Bovary,” Gustave Flaubert
9. “Anna Karenina,” Leo Tolstoy
10. “Wishful Drinking,” Carrie Fisher

Visit the New York Times to see why he chose these 10.

Rufus Wainwright’s next album, “Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets,” will be released April 22.