Read Crime and Punishment

Three brothers, a murdered father and the Grand Inquisitor; Dostoevsky's last novel.

Prince Myshkin, too good for Petersburg society, and the woman two men destroy.

A spiteful clerk in a Petersburg basement argues with everyone; the first existentialist novel.

The timeless falling-blocks puzzle (1984).

Tolstoy's epic of Russia in the Napoleonic age (1869).

Bulgakov's satirical devil-in-Moscow masterpiece (1967).

A lawyer follows a clockwork trail to a lost island of mammoths; Benoit Sokal's art.

Zamyatin's 1921 glass city of numbers; the book Orwell and Huxley both borrowed from.