Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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1. Frances HardingeInterview

   Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s been sitting neglected on my shelf for years, and I thought I should finally get round to it.

2. Lawrence GrobelInterview

   I think about The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and Franz Kafka’s stories.

3. Naomi DuguidInterview

   I love the nineteenth century novels from France and Russia, again the classics known to all, such as Madame Bovary and A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I’d also like to mention Barchester Towers by Anthony…

4. Benjamin MurphyInterview

   Money by Martin Amis, The Fall and The Stranger by Albert Camus, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Molloy by Samuel Beckett and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

5. Vilma GonzalezInterview

   That’s a really tough one. I’m a big fan of literary fiction, so books like Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Yeah…

6. Jeremy ZuckermanInterview

   On Sonic Art by Trevor Wishart. Or Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Those books were sustenance for my intellect and creativity! I became a more realized human after reading them.

7. Adam MartinakisInterview

   Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Slowness by Milan Kundera, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Platform by Michel Houellebecq, Shikasta by Doris Lessing, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, Cannery Row by John…

8. Andrew KlavanInterview

   Many. I go back to Shakespeare and the Bible all the time for the reasons stated above. I’ve read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky several times because it had such a huge impact on me. The older I get, the more I reread books I love.

9. Joseph MazurInterview

   Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, A Woman in Berlin, Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre, and Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier.

10. Daniel CohenInterview

    On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein; Gödel, Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan; The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut; The Human Stain by Philip Roth; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers K by David James…

11. Emma BennettInterview

    My band mates… Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Armada by Brian Patten.

12. Hamid DabashiInterview

    I am mostly reading Facebook. Next to Facebook (literally next to my iPhone) I am reading Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas. But I am reading that magnificent book like I read my newsfeed. It makes me understand it better. You must understand I read philosophy like fiction. I stopped reading fiction a very…

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