# The best Dostoevsky novels

Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels and novellas in order of reader ratings, with the "great five" in front.

- 54 votes · 15 items
- Oct 1, 2025 · Мария Васильева
- https://even.best/en/l/2412/the-best-dostoevsky-novels

## Top 15

1. **Crime and Punishment** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1866. Raskolnikov and his theory.
2. **Demons** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1871-1872. A novel about nihilists and revolutionaries.
3. **Poor Folk** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1846. His first novel, told in letters.
4. **The Idiot** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1868-1869. Prince Myshkin, a "positively beautiful man".
5. **The Brothers Karamazov** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1880. His last novel: faith, freedom and parricide.
6. **Humiliated and Insulted** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1861. A St Petersburg melodrama about poverty.
7. **The Adolescent** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1875. The coming of age of an illegitimate son.
8. **The House of the Dead** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1860-1862. Penal servitude seen from the inside.
9. **A Gentle Creature** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1876. A husband by his wife's body tries to understand what happened.
10. **Notes from Underground** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1864. The confession of a bitter man.
11. **The Gambler** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1866. Written in 26 days, about roulette and passion.
12. **Netochka Nezvanova** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1849. An unfinished novel about a girl.
13. **White Nights** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1848. A sentimental novella about a dreamer.
14. **The Village of Stepanchikovo** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1859. A comic novella about the hanger-on Foma Opiskin.
15. **The Double** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1846. A clerk meets his double.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.