• The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books - Lectures on Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank
  • The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books - Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Jessie Coulson
  • The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books - Dostoevsky: Reminiscences by Anna Dostoevsky
  • The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books - The Master of Petersburg: A Novel by J M Coetzee
  • The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Best Fyodor Dostoevsky Books, recommended by Alex Christofi

His father had clawed his way up into the minor aristocracy, but Fyodor Dostoevsky chose to live the life of an impecunious author. He was sentenced to death, but his execution was stayed and he spent years in a Siberian labour camp instead. His books are about human compassion, but he was a difficult man who had trouble with his own personal relationships. Alex Christofi, author of a brilliant new biography of Dostoevsky, one of Russia’s greatest novelists, recommends five books to learn more about the man and his work—including the novel of which Tolstoy said he ‘didn’t know a better book in all our literature’.