2 ms·I'd recommend Steinbeck's East of Eden and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.by jmduke 13y agoI'd recommend Steinbeck's East of Eden and Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.dudurocha 13y agothanks! I've been delaying the read of Brothers Karamazov. I'll look for the Steinbeck's.jackbravo 13y agoI second the Karamazov suggestion, and would say also War & Peace by the other great Russian, Tolstoi. One of the bests books I've read.