I'll nominate Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
An Amazon blurb:
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Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil.
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Why would I nominate this? I was watching Freaks and Geeks and they had a stereotypical English teacher assigning and describing it; it sounded good. Plus, it looks shorter than The Brothers Karamazov.
