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Edoardo Ballerini's of this two-hour Dostoevsky novella is almost uncomfortably intimate — his delivery of the Dreamer's longing is quiet and precise, the kind of voice that makes you feel you're overhearing rather than being read to. Three other narrators in the recommendations are also Ballerini, and seven of the ten come from Dostoevsky's wider catalog, so if you want to stay inside this particular Russian interior — that mix of philosophical ache and romantic yearning — the list offers plenty of space to do it.

10 books for fans of White Nights

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    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994] cover

    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Dostoyevsky's prophetic novel follows Russian revolutionaries whose ideological extremism leads them to consider murdering their own comrades to protect their cause.

    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K ratings)
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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M ratings)
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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)
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    The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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)
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    Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground cover

    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)
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    The Gambler

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth

    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (124.0K ratings)
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    I Must Betray You

    by Ruta Sepetys

    ★ 4.40 Goodreads (101.3K ratings)
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    The Storyteller

    by Jodi Picoult

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    A grief-stricken baker befriends an elderly man who reveals himself as a former Nazi guard seeking redemption through death. Picoult weaves together multiple generations affected by Holocaust trauma, examining forgiveness, justice, and the weight of inherited guilt.

    ★ 4.30 Goodreads (278.1K ratings)
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    The Complete novels of Leo Tolstoy

    by Leo Tolstoy, The Complete Works Collection, The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, Aylmer Maude

    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (37 ratings)
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    Psalms

    Bible • Book 19

    by Anonymous

    ★ 4.65 Goodreads (2.4K ratings)
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