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Best books to learn Dostoevsky & the Russian novel, in order

The Russian novel is a single long argument across authors, so the reading order does real work. Begin with Turgenev and the shorter Tolstoy to learn the world and its questions, then move into Dostoevsky's fever, saving The Brothers Karamazov for last once you know what he's wrestling with. Choose your translation deliberately, it changes the voice entirely, and read a companion alongside so the philosophy and history land.

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