I completely agree with you and that's the feeling it left me with at the end of the reading. I wouldn't call myself an "overthinker", but these types of books help me a lot to understand my thoughts and feel more comfortable with them.

If you have any other recommendations for books like this, I'm interested.

Hello ! Thank you for your recommendation, it was on my shortlist of Russian books ! I hope I will enjoy it :)

I would like to begin as soon as possible Dead Souls by Gogol.

Hello ! I share your opinion about their humanity. I started with short stories too. I can also recommend you : The Death of Ivan Ilyich / The Devil / In Pursuit of Happiness by the same author. I don't know much other Russian authors, but I liked Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (which is around 300 pages long, but still very short compared to other works such as Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov and so one).

My next big Russian read will probably be Anna Karenina !

Have a good read :)

Hey friend, go ahead and explain what you didn't like. It might help people to make up their own minds.