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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Crime and Punishment from the world's leading experts.
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Esther Perel You can reread the Russians. They are timeless. (Source)
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Irvine Welsh It is not a crime book in the way that we understand crime fiction today. Instead it is like an existential psychological thriller. (Source)
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Ben Domenech @SohrabAhmari @li88yinc @jgcrum @BlueBoxDave @InezFeltscher @JarrettStepman Maybe the best book ever written. (Source)
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Ovidiu Drugan Any crime comes with inner suffering so better not do it. (Source)
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John Timoney The second time I read it was at a monthly police officers’ reading club where we’d get together and discuss a book over beer and pizza, and that time it struck me as funny and somewhat naive that a cold-blooded killer’s pangs of conscience lead him to confess. (Source)
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Robert Service I think Dostoevsky understood psychological and social contradictions in life to a peak of intensity later writers have seldom been able to match. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Crime and Punishment is ranked in the following categories:
- #35 in 11th Grade
- #28 in 12th Grade
- #35 in 16-Year-Old
- #28 in 17-Year-Old
- #28 in 18-Year-Old
- #30 in AA
- #14 in Abstract
- #51 in Ancient
- #4 in Bucket List
- #22 in Catalog
- #52 in Class
- #24 in Classic
- #15 in Classical
- #25 in Collection
- #20 in Crime
- #26 in Crime Fiction
- #13 in Criminology
- #76 in Drama
- #23 in Dramatic
- #81 in Epic
- #31 in Ethics
- #5 in Existential
- #7 in Existentialism
- #48 in Fiction
- #2 in Free e-Book
- #6 in GRE
- #7 in GRE Prep
- #70 in Game Changer
- #22 in Gilmore Girls
- #63 in GoT
- #26 in Goodreads
- #29 in High School
- #23 in High School Reading
- #39 in Human Nature
- #34 in Human Physiology
- #50 in Humanity
- #57 in Important
- #42 in Influential
- #63 in Insightful
- #86 in Interesting
- #58 in Justice
- #70 in Kindle
- #73 in Law
- #8 in Leather
- #23 in Leather Bound
- #81 in Library
- #57 in Life Changing
- #21 in Literary
- #10 in Literature
- #8 in Long
- #42 in Men
- #36 in Modernist
- #18 in Morality
- #30 in Most Influential
- #18 in Murder
- #24 in Must-Read
- #21 in Novel
- #31 in Old
- #12 in Penguin Classics
- #72 in Philosophy
- #24 in Philosophy History
- #8 in Poster
- #30 in Poverty
- #2 in Project Gutenberg
- #27 in Psycho
- #9 in Public Domain
- #83 in Quarantine
- #35 in Red
- #16 in Roman
- #38 in Sales
- #87 in Story
- #82 in Summer Reading
- #89 in Thought
- #69 in Thought-Provoking
- #68 in To-Read
- #53 in Top Ten
- #6 in Translated
- #82 in University
- #94 in Wisdom
- #39 in World
- #5 in Writers