10 books for fans of [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]
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The Idiot
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Epileptic Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss treatment to St. Petersburg, where his Christ-like innocence attracts fortune-hunters and destroys lives.
★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K ratings) - 2
Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev
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The unnamed underground man's rambling confessions reveal Dostoevsky's exploration of free will, rational egoism, and the perverse human need to act against one's own interests.
★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K ratings) - 3
White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett
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Set during St. Petersburg's ethereal white nights, Dostoevsky's novella follows a solitary dreamer who befriends a young woman waiting for her absent lover. Brief but emotionally devastating, it explores loneliness and the cruel hope of connection.
★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K ratings) - 4
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
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After killing an old woman for her money, Raskolnikov finds that escaping punishment means nothing if you cannot escape the weight of your own conscience.
★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M ratings) - 7
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
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Spanning 1900 to 1977 in Kerala, India, three generations of one family grapple with a mysterious curse that causes skilled swimmers to drown. Verghese weaves together love, faith, and medical mystery in this sweeping epic that explores how families endure across time and tragedy.
★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K ratings) - 8
The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
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The Chance family fractures over Vietnam, religion, and baseball in this sprawling American epic that follows four brothers through the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and beyond.
★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K ratings) - 9
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