10 books
These books go somewhere uncomfortable and stay there. They are studies in guilt, alienation, obsession, and the darker registers of human consciousness — written by authors who believed that fiction should go where polite conversation cannot. Not light reading, but permanently affecting.
Read these when you want your assumptions about people disturbed.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866
A brilliant but destitute St. Petersburg student convinces himself that extraordinary people are beyond ordinary morality — and tests the theory by murdering a pawnbroker. The aftermath, and the detective who watches him from a careful distance, is one of the most claustrophobic psychological thrillers ever written.
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