Oblomov is a book about decision paralysis and wasting your life. Ruby Hart brings it up in her video on national literary voices to show how Russian novels use flawed individuals to look at society:
This is a really comic story, but when you think about it, this is a very sad and… depressing story… this guy that just wants to absolutely waste his life away and just lay in bed forever.
Sounds a lot like The Age of Reason, another book on my list about betraying your own potential.