Dostoevsky's most famous works are the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-1869), Demons (1871-1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), along with the novella Notes from Underground (1864), also published as Notes from the Underground.
Crime and Punishment tells how a poor student in St. Petersburg kills an old pawnbroker to test a theory, and it was the book of the year in 1866. Notes from Underground, in two parts, was written as a response to Chernyshevsky's utopian novel What Is to Be Done? The Idiot tries to portray a wholly beautiful man, Prince Myshkin. Demons was born from the murder of a student in Moscow by the revolutionary group of Sergei Nechayev. The Brothers Karamazov, the last novel, brings together a family crime and the debate about God, and it was completed shortly before the author's death.
Among the other works, Poor Folk (1846) made him famous overnight; The Double, published weeks later, was received coldly; The House of the Dead recounts the years of prison in Siberia; The Gambler (1866) was dictated in less than a month; The Insulted and Humiliated and The Adolescent (1875) are among the remaining novels; and A Writer's Diary gathers the journalism of the 1870s.
There is no way to say which is the most read: there is no public count of sales or readership for Dostoevsky.
On Clavis: Crime and Punishment.