Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books

The best books by Fyodor Dostoevsky — 9 titles spanning Literature & Fiction, averaging 4.18 BLT stars.

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Dostoevsky doesn't write novels — he builds psychological pressure chambers. Crime and Punishment drops you inside the fractured mind of a murderer and never lets you breathe, while The Brothers Karamazov sprawls across faith, doubt, and family destruction with the weight of a theological argument conducted at fever pitch. His prose is dense and relentless, full of characters who monologue themselves into corners, contradict their own convictions, and suffer with an intensity that feels less like fiction than confession. Dostoevsky is the writer who understood that the most interesting battleground isn't between people — it's within them. Readers who want comfortable storytelling should look elsewhere. But if you want literature that genuinely unsettles you, that asks hard questions about guilt, free will, and what it means to be human, there is no one better.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's highest-rated book in our collection is Crime and Punishment (4.56 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator

    ★ 4.56 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M)
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    Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev

    ★ 4.49 BLT Score (237.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K)
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    Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 4.49 BLT Score (394.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (394.3K)
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    The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 4.30 BLT Score (221.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K)
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    White Nights

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett

    ★ 4.23 BLT Score (370.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K)
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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 4.03 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M)
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    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 4.03 BLT Score (64.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K)
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    The Gambler

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (124.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (124.0K)
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    The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Allam, Joseph Arkley, Nicholas Boulton, Jonathan Forbes, John Gray, Paul Hilton, Boris Isarov, Alex Jennings, Barnaby Kay, Gary Lilburn, Roy Marsden, Clive Merrison, Jim Norton, Ronald Pickup, Paul Rhys, David Suchet, Jane Whittenshaw, Lia Williams, Rowan Williams

    ★ 3.55 BLT Score (12 ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (12)
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