>>193-195
I also identified with Levin when I first read it, but that was mainly because I was a shy teenager who liked the idea of the "nice guy" getting to be rich and marry a hot girl.

When it comes to Russian literature I much prefer Dostoevsky. He's like the edgier version of Tolstoy. I found Crime and Punishment, The Double and The Idiot much more interesting than Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

Also, Anton Chekhov has some pretty damn good short stories.

>>196
The Plague is pretty good! My recommendation for DQN is Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. It's like an SCP article but much more well-written. Creepy in a fascinating way. (Also, apparently a movie came out recently, but I haven't seen it yet.)