Where to Start with Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Best entry point → Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov
- Best standalone → Crime and Punishment
- What fans keep coming back to → White Nights
- Highest rated by listeners → Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground
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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
Narrated by Anthony Heald
★ 4.56 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.4K)20h 28m listening time • Released 2007Dostoevsky's psychological masterwork follows a man who commits the 'perfect' murder and is destroyed not by justice but by his own conscience.
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Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev
Narrated by Alan Turton
★ 4.49 ABR Score (237.7K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K)5h 25m listening time • Released 2026 - 3
Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov
Narrated by Luke Thompson
★ 4.49 ABR Score (395.0K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (394.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (638)43h 6m listening time • Released 2021 - 4
The Idiot
Narrated by Constantine Gregory
★ 4.30 ABR Score (222.9K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K) ★ 4.49 Audible (1.5K)24h 56m listening time • Released 2017 - 5
White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.23 ABR Score (371.7K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K) ★ 4.5 Audible (777)1h 55m listening time • Released 2021Edoardo Ballerini's tender narration captures the ache of Dostoevsky's dreamer—lonely, hopeful, and utterly human—making this slim masterpiece feel like a confession whispered across two hours.
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Crime and Punishment
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.03 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 3.92 Audible (111)5h 15m listening time • Released 2005 - 7
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[Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]
Narrated by Malk Williams
★ 4.03 ABR Score (64.3K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (17)28h 24m listening time • Released 2024 - 8
The Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth
Narrated by Michael Kramer
★ 3.90 ABR Score (124.0K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (124.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (44)6h 33m listening time • Released 2011 - 9
The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Allam, Joseph Arkley, Nicholas Boulton, Jonathan Forbes, John Gray, Paul Hilton, Boris Isarov, Alex Jennings, Barnaby Kay, Gary Lilburn, Roy Marsden, Clive Merrison, Jim Norton, Ronald Pickup, Paul Rhys, David Suchet, Jane Whittenshaw, Lia Williams, Rowan Williams
Narrated by Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Paul Rhys, Nicholas Boulton, Paul Hilton, David Suchet, full cast, Barnaby Kay, Lia Williams
★ 3.55 ABR Score (29 ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (12) ★ 4.35 Audible (17)17h 28m listening time • Released 2021
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