# Which Dostoevsky novel should I read?

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**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dostoevsky-novel-should-i-read/171201 "2003-04-25T21:41:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dostoevsky-novel-should-i-read/171201/21 "2003-04-27T00:26:08Z")

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This isn’t exactly literature I can identify a decent reason for liking, and it doesn’t feel like normal Russian Literature, but _One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich_, by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn is an excellent read for a long plane/train ride. It’s short, but a slow read.  
A couple shorts by Pushkin make nice for interjections of Russian humor, and a second for Gogol.

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