As the highest receiving vote getter on the /r/ayearofbookhub poll without a dedicated subreddit, ClassicBookClub is moving forward with Crime and Punishment to begin our 2021 chapter per day reading.

If you are new to this book club the idea is fairly straightforward. We plan to tackle literary classics one chapter a day, everyday. Future books will be nominated and chosen by a community poll.

Our plan for Crime and Punishment is to begin reading on January 1st.

Here is a proposed schedule for the book. Note that some longer chapters have been divided into two days to help keep the read more manageable. Anything marked in yellow is a split chapter. The page count is from an Amazon book translated by Constance Garnett, and the minute count is based off of the librivox audiobook. Page counts may vary among translation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15TMnaXEVan4FabhZY7chTUmv3OTJqgy3gfE_phAMtpI/htmlview

In the discussion posts we will post the last line for each day of reading so people following along will know where the stopping point is.

Next up, you will need to pick a translation. Here is a post from /r/dostoevsky discussing different translations.

https://reddit.com/r/dostoevsky/comments/juuytp/regarding_the_many_translations_of_fyodor/

Feel free to read in any language you are comfortable with. There are also free versions of the book online.

Here is a link to the free ebook from Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm

Here is a link to the free audiobook from librivox.

https://librivox.org/crime-and-punishment-version-3-by-fyodor-dostoyevsky/

Once you’ve decided on a translation you can pick your flair. The most common translations have been provided or edit in your own.

Let us know below what translation you are thinking of doing and if you have any questions.

Thanks from the mod team!