Reddit mentions of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

Dostoevsky is my favorite author, and that's saying a lot.

I always recommend that people start reading Dostoevsky with "Notes From Underground". It's a great, short introduction to Dostoesvsky, and I think it would let a person know if they want to read more of his work or not without being too much of a commitment.

After that I'd suggest a collection of his best short stories. If you still love him after that (I certainly do) then you're definitely ready for his intense, hard core, mind fuck novels.

I always recommend starting with "The Idiot", which I like the most out of his "great novels" (followed by "The Devils/Demons", "Crime and Punishment" then Brothers K) .

Brothers K was his last work, and really, to be fully appreciated, I think it needs to be read after a lot of his other things. Also, honestly, it's not as good (in my opinion) as The Idiot or Devils/Demons.

Another commenter recommended Pevear and Volokhonsky's translations, which I heartily agree with. I will also say that David Magarshack and Michael R. Katz are great translators of him as well (I prefer Magarshack's version of The Idiot to the PV translation personally).

These are, of course, just my suggestions, but after turning on a few friends to Fyodor D., I think it's a good recipe for getting into him, and getting what he's all about without being intimidated/bored/discouraged by leaping into his dense, later stuff.

I have two books of his short stories.
Here and here.

We could start with his more famous short stories or novellas, such as White Nights and Poor Folk. But all the short stories are all excellent.

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From a quick Google search I found a number of them to read online:

Some of them are here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40745/40745-h/40745-h.htm

Here is White Nights: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/White_Nights/First_Night

I'm sure we could find most of them to read online.