For his bookshop and website One Grand Books, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name the 10 books they’d take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. The next in the series is the singer Rufus Wainwright, whose new album, “Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets,” is out on April 22. He shares his list exclusively with T.

“The Way We Live Now,” Anthony Trollope

A brilliant expose on 1870s London during a financial crash, eerily similar to what we’ve been through recently.

“Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” Thomas Hardy

Reading this book caused a kind of romantic awakening when I was younger, and my hair has never risen so high as on the last word of the last chapter.