Books like Crime and Punishment
A destitute student in St. Petersburg murders a pawnbroker and is slowly consumed by guilt, paranoia, and a detective who knows exactly what he did.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Three brothers, the passionate Dmitri, the intellectual Ivan and the devout Alyosha, are drawn into their father's murder, in a novel that puts God, free will and Russia itself on trial.
The Idiot
Prince Myshkin, a gentle epileptic returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, is drawn into the passions of a society he cannot read, caught between the beautiful, damaged Nastasya Filippovna and the proud Aglaya Yepanchin.
The Kreutzer Sonata
On a train across Russia a grey man tells a stranger how he came to murder his wife, and implicates marriage, music, and middle-class Christianity in what he did.
Doctor Glas
A lonely Stockholm doctor's diary records his fascination with a young patient and his loathing for her clergyman husband, and his slow reasoning towards whether he should kill him.
Lord Jim
Jim, a young officer, jumps from the Patna when he believes it is sinking with eight hundred pilgrims aboard, and spends the rest of his life trying to redeem that moment.
A Happy Death
Patrice Mersault, an Algiers shipping clerk, kills a rich, crippled man and takes his money, then sets out to buy the time to be happy.
Native Son
A young Black man in 1930s Chicago commits a terrible act and is consumed by the legal and racial machinery that was going to destroy him anyway.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
A successful judge confronted by his own mortality realises that his entire life has been a lie, and the novella's forty pages contain a complete philosophy of dying.
The Fixer
A Jewish handyman in Tsarist Russia is arrested for a crime he didn't commit and endures years of imprisonment while refusing to confess.
A Hero of Our Time
A disenchanted officer in the Caucasus records his encounters with a Byronic antihero named Pechorin, whose cruelty and charisma embody the soul-sickness of imperial Russia.
Mysteries
Johan Nagel, a stranger in a yellow suit, steps off a steamer into a small Norwegian coastal town one summer and unsettles everyone with his lies, gifts and provocations.
Strangers on a Train
Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.