While I disagree with many of his views, Dostoevsky is definitely great, The Idiot and The Gambler are amazing. But I think you need to be somewhat interested in psychology to read those, otherwise you might not get too much out of it.
I only always hear about classical Russian books though, anybody know of a few good contemporary ones?
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I've heard many German translations of his works are quite excellent. Too bad I don't speak that language half as good as I would like.