Book as “informative” as Nabokov’s “Lolita” or Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot”

I know y'all are wondering the similarities of the books share, but having read these two books recently, I noticed that they are so informative–informative in a sense that I learned about Russian Literature, Turkey and Serbia, Harvard University, etc., from Batuman's novel; while I learned so much about unheard of stuff, which I can't [...]