Crime and Punishment
Russian novelist, 1821–1881.
Crime and Punishment is an 1866 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated from Russian.
On 7 of the 10 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- First published
- 1866
- Length
- 528 pages (UK paperback)
- Original language
- Translated from Russian
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Crime, Psychological, Philosophical
Is Crime and Punishment worth reading?
7 of the 10 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian) and 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 66 | See the list |
| Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian Book Clubs, 2002) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 25 | See the list |
| The 100 best novels of all time (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 69 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 60 | See the list |
| The Great American Read (PBS, 2018) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Crime and Punishment
The edition we link to is the Wordsworth Editions paperback (2000), 528 pages, translated by Constance Garnett.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions (paperback, 2000)
- Pages
- 528
- Translator
- Constance Garnett
- ISBN
- 9781840224306
How critics and readers rate Crime and Punishment
Readers and critics rate it about equally: it earned 65% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 63% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Crime and Punishment
If you liked Crime and Punishment, try The Brothers Karamazov, Middlemarch or War and Peace.
