you probably have already read crime and punishment if youre reading TBK, but if not, totally read that! Frankenstein is my all-time favorite classic

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If you like writing craft studies at all, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders is great. He studies a bunch of Russian authors specifically from a craft lens.

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If you want a long story, but that’s in my opinion just as good as The Brothers Karamazov. Then I highly recommend In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Or War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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