I love TSATF, Middlemarch and Tess. The latter is the great English prose tragedy. And how can something as majestic as Middlemarch be overrated. Faulkner and Pynchon are obviously an acquired taste. I think the Turgenev is there because it accurately described the sort of personality who take over Russia over 50 years later.
I just read Middlemarch a few months ago and did enjoy it but found it annoying too. The characters where just too annoying for me to place it high up. Too predictable and the heroine drove me crazy.
I thought the Hamlet trilogy much more interesting than The Sound.
The Possessed more clearly showed Russia's fate than F&S which was ok but a bit too simple.