The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Picked this up after recently finishing The Selfish Gene, as I remembered what a thrilling read Crime and Punishment was. Dostoyevsky is funny, thought-provoking and anxiety-inducing as ever. Unlike some other authors, he rarely makes characters whose viewpoints he disagrees with into cheap caricatures with bad arguments. He is intellectually honest and provides unprecedented (at least for its time) psychological insight into his complex characters. I have always been sad to finish Dostoyevsky's books, but as the Penguin Classics version is around 1000 pages long, it will hopefully take a bit longer this time around.
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