Rufus Wainwright's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 9 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

Favorite books (2020)

Favorite books recommended by Rufus Wainwright, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/rufus-wainwright-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

The Way We Live Now

Anthony Trollope · Buy on Amazon

"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 · Buy on Amazon

"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."

Love in the Ruins

Walker Percy · Buy on Amazon

"It’s both majestically written and utterly hilarious. It encapsulates a lot of the deep, dark southern psyche, which we all love…and hate."

Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford · Buy on Amazon

"An incredible biography by an incredible woman about another incredible woman."

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr · Buy on Amazon

"Very thorough and endlessly entertaining about one of the greats."

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis (also rec’d by David Foster Wallace ) · Buy on Amazon

"I was definitely very affected by this when I was a teenager. That began my adventure in reading. I think the Narnia books are perfect books for young people."

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert (also rec’d by David Bowie , Ernest Hemingway , Kim Gordon & Philip Roth ) · Buy on Amazon

"The most perfect novel ever written."

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen , Ernest Hemingway , Philip Roth , Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe ) · Buy on Amazon

"The second most perfect novel ever written."

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher (READ: Carrie Fisher’s Favorite Books ) · Buy on Amazon

"It’s all true and it’s all good."

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