The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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1. Ayesha Harruna AttahInterview
2. Tamler SommersInterview

   That’s a tough one – maybe Demons or The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. They both reflect the turbulent times we’re in right now.

3. Christian B. MillerInterview

   I guess it depends on the subject matter. If it is fiction, then my favorite of all time is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe are right up there too. If is young adult fiction, then it would be The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis or…

4. Paul RussellInterview

   Around age 16 I read A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway, which I found a powerful and absorbing work (with a lot of pathos). I think that an intelligent teenager will enjoy this book and is old enough to appreciate its themes and concerns. At age 25 I would suggest The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It…

5. Darren ShanInterview

   The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I mostly read contemporary fiction, but I like to read one or two of the classics every year too.

6. Adrian MooreInterview

   My all-time favourite novel, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It’s a beast of a book, brimming with philosophical ideas. But I do also tend to wax lyrical about Iris Murdoch’s novels.

7. Cedric VillaniInterview

   Some old and more recent, some classics and some more confidential. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Economie du bien Commun by Jean Tirole, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, The Measure of all Things by Ken Alder, Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky…

8. 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…

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