Books like Crime and Punishment
If you liked Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because also by Fyodor Dostoevsky; shares tags: classics, philosophy, russia.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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War and Peace
Because shares tags: classics, russia, philosophy.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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The Trial
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Josef K. is arrested one morning on an unknown charge and pulled into an endless court he can never leave.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
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The Master and Margarita
Because shares tags: classics, russia.
Devil Woland visits 1930s Moscow while Master writes Pilate and Margarita bargains.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
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Oliver Twist
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of…
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The Screwtape Letters
Because shares tags: classics, philosophy.
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Because shares tags: classics, crime.
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Because shares tags: philosophy, classics.
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
