Book · 2020
Crime and Punishment
(Illustrated)
#105 of 16,686 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 38
- people
- 19
- podcasts
- 14
- episodes
- 31
- critical mentions
- 0
I've recommended to people frequently that if they're interested in fiction, they might consider reading Dossi. And I would say read Crime and Punishment because it's like the world's greatest thriller. It's an amazing book.
Jordan Peterson · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2026 Listen at 25:20 What they say about it
- Discusses character Raskolnikov“raskolnikov in crime and punishment”9
- Read at age nineteen“when I was 19”4
- One of the greatest books“one of the greatest novels ever written”2
- Inspired desire to learn Russian“reason I always wanted to learn Russian”2
The best things said about it
Crime and Punishment is the book that really changed my life when I was 19.
Andrew Klavan The Rubin Report · Jun 2025 I am one of my favorite books and the reason I always wanted to learn Russian was Crime and Punishment.
But when I was 19 I read crime and punishment Right that was another that was another great one that talked me out of ever really doing crime.
Well I think one of the things I liked about Crime and Punishment and Do's work in particular is that it kind of it at least is wrestling with existentialism.
William MacAskill The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2022 One of the greatest books ever written is Crime and Punishment.
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a profound psychological novel that explores guilt, morality, and the severe consequences of moral relativism and nihilism. Jordan Peterson frequently recommended the book on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, describing it as an amazingly compelling thriller and ranking it alongside Dostoevsky's other masterworks as a text that fundamentally transformed his worldview. Bridget Phetasy shared on The Joe Rogan Experience that it stands as one of her absolute favorite books and inspired her desire to learn Russian. Ronald Sullivan discussed the novel on the Lex Fridman Podcast, reflecting on the vivid word pictures created by Dostoevsky and noting how the text serves as a deep meditation on the measure and meaning of human life. Joe Rogan also suggested the book to a guest while discussing how criminals carry the heavy psychological weight of guilt. In later discussions, Jordan Peterson and Andrew Klavan examined the character Raskolnikov to illustrate the dangers of shedding moral constraints and how confronting such texts helped them reject moral relativism. Across these various podcast episodes, speakers consistently praised the novel's unmatched depth, portraying it as an essential exploration of the human conscience, redemption, and the spiritual cost of justifying transgressions.
Every mention
Jordan Peterson I've recommended to people frequently that if they're interested in fiction, they might consider reading Do… 11
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“like the attitude that DSTVski's character Rolnikov adopts in his famous book crime and punishment”
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“I've recommended to people frequently that if they're interested in fiction, they might consider reading Dossi. And I would say read Crime and Punishment because it's like the world's greatest thriller. It's an amazing book.”
Recommended
“For me, Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist, sort of top of that list. His books, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground, The Devils, are unbelievably compelling works of fiction and they're deep.”
Discussed
“that's what happens to raskolnikov in in crime and punishment right”
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“do you ever read the idiot no yeah well I'm probably half idiot and half rol nikov that's another way of looking at it”
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“I think it's like asking whether raskolnikov existed in crime and punishment like it's not”
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“like like rol nikov says in crime and punishment I'm not going to get caught”
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“and so Hamlet is an abstraction like raskolnikov in crime and punishment did raskolnikov exist”
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“look if you read crime and punishment for example one of the things you see that emerges when Rolen kov gets away with murder and it's a brutal murder and he gets away with it”
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“he's a thriller writer a writer of crime fiction very much influenced by dooski Crime and Punishment”
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“then you're in dostoevsky in territory it's like his book uh crime and punishment because raskolnikov the protagonist decides that all this is nonsense”
Ronald Sullivan but the the other book i was going to say is dostoevsky's crime and punishment and uh i mean i've always wa… 2
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“but the the other book i was going to say is dostoevsky's crime and punishment and uh i mean i've always wanted to go to saint pete's uh just to sort of see with my own eyes what the word pictures that dostoevsky created in crime and punishment”
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“the other book i was going to say is dostoevsky's crime and punishment and uh i mean i've always wanted to go to saint pete's uh just to sort of see with my own eyes what the word pictures that dostoevsky created in crime and punishment”
Bridget Phetasy I am one of my favorite books and the reason I always wanted to learn Russian was Crime and Punishment 2
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“I am one of my favorite books and the reason I always wanted to learn Russian was Crime and Punishment”
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“and the reason I always wanted to learn Russian was Crime and Punishment it's just so brilliant I think that was on his book list too for a week”
Joe Rogan Crime and Punishment its dos EF yeah I never read that oh you should read it 1
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“Crime and Punishment its dos EF yeah I never read that oh you should read it”
Andrew Klavan This inspires Dostoevsky to write the book Crime and Punishment, one of the greatest novels ever written, w… 5
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“When I was 19 I read the book uh crime and punishment by Fodor Doofs Davski which is about a murder and it was just at that moment when the moral relativists were coming up into the colleges and teaching you that one culture is just as good as another.”
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“This inspires Dostoevsky to write the book Crime and Punishment, one of the greatest novels ever written, which which essentially is about a guy who thinks that he is special and therefore he can commit a murder.”
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“Well, well, well, actually in Crime and Punishment, Crime and Punishment is is uh the book that really changed my life when I was 19. And here's a guy who uh foreseen the advent of Nietzsche”
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“But But Match Point is is one of the jokes in Match Point is the murderer uses Crime and Punishment as his blueprint for a murder.”
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“and uh I guess I was 19 years old and I read Crime and Punishment”
Lex Fridman see i think i like crime and punishment because while you identified with michigan i think i identified mor… 2
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“is it better than crime and punishment”
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“see i think i like crime and punishment because while you identified with michigan i think i identified more with raskolnikov”
Dana Gioia I think Brothers katsov is one of the three or four greatest novels ever written crime and punishment is a… 1
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“I think Brothers katsov is one of the three or four greatest novels ever written crime and punishment is a tremendous novel but then you get the novels like the idiot or the possessed which I think have great moments but they're kind of sprawling books which you know he doesn't reign in sufficiently”
Dwarkesh Patel yeah speaking of people's psychology a crime and punishment underrated or overrated as a way to analyze a p… 1
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“yeah speaking of people's psychology a crime and punishment underrated or overrated as a way to analyze a psychology of people like scaling and SBF”
Elif Batuman the first one I read was Crime and Punishment and that was the one that really struck me at that early mome… 1
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“the first one I read was Crime and Punishment and that was the one that really struck me at that early moment of Youth when I think one is especially receptive to DVI so that has a special place in my heart”
Esther Perel how I'll tell you what I reread that I L because one of my kids was reading it in school Crime and Punishme… 1
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“how I'll tell you what I reread that I L because one of my kids was reading it in school Crime and Punishment yeah no you can rad the Russians that that we just I don't they they are”
Ezra Klein of shifting you of giving you the ideas and insights that reading crime and punishment or or East of Eden w… 1
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“of shifting you of giving you the ideas and insights that reading crime and punishment or or East of Eden would do”
George Hotz but when I was 19 I read crime and punishment Right that was another that was another great one that talked… 1
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“but when I was 19 I read crime and punishment Right that was another that was another great one that talked me out of ever really doing crime”
Joel Kinnaman And then the first job that I got after I finished acting school was was to play Raskolnikov in Crime and P… 1
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“And then the first job that I got after I finished acting school was was to play Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. And uh it it was also the the opening play of a new National Theater”
Michael Orthofer and I mean we have these established books like Warren peace or Crime and Punishment but Russian literature… 1
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“and I mean we have these established books like Warren peace or Crime and Punishment but Russian literature goes so so much deeper”
Niall Ferguson remember raskolnikov's nightmare at the end of crime and punishment in which he imagines in his dream a wor… 1
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“remember raskolnikov's nightmare at the end of crime and punishment in which he imagines in his dream a world in which a terrible virus spreads”
S.A. Cosby I mean one of the greatest books ever written is crime and punishment 1
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“I mean one of the greatest books ever written is crime and punishment”
Shaan Puri I was reading this quote by the guy I don't know how to say his last name but the guy who wrote Crime in pu… 1
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“I was reading this quote by the guy I don't know how to say his last name but the guy who wrote Crime in punishment you know like this famous novel”
Tim Ferriss and I have a number of questions related to this not surprisingly but I want to touch upon first perhaps an… 1
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“and I have a number of questions related to this not surprisingly but I want to touch upon first perhaps an unexpected Insertion I have in my notes Here Crime and Punishment by dooi as a book that was important to you and I would like know why that is the case”
William MacAskill well I think one of the things I liked about Crime and Punishment and Do's work in particular is that it ki… 1
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“well I think one of the things I liked about Crime and Punishment and Do's work in particular is that it kind of it at least is wrestling with existentialism”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker2
Discussed
“have you read crime and punishment by doovi no I haven't I have”
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“we actually had Crime and Punishment on the curriculum um and you know we were the things that mentioned religion were kind of allowed”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“I lived in this tiny studio apartment, like... Raskolnikov, and crime and punishment. And I'm pacing the apartment back and forth, back and forth, I'm saying, I did it.”
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“I was reading a book last yesterday. It was Crime and Punishment and I'm not just saying this just to show everybody I'm reading Crime and Punishment. Ooh. But somebody mentioned something being like sixes and sevens and I couldn't tell from the context what they were talking about. Still, I think it was kind of positive or something like”
Passing
“It has a bunch of links - if you want to learn more about margin calls, read this. And he goes, and if you want to learn more about the psychology of utilitarian bets, read this, and it's just a link to the Amazon page of Crime and Punishment.”
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“Robert McKee: You have read stories as a child. You have seen them countless. By the tens of thousands of stories from everything from TV commercials to crime and punishment.”
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“i think this life this world this our human civilization is beautiful and as dostoyevsky said beauty will save the world”
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“when I was 19 I read crime and punishment right that was another that was another great one that talked me out of ever really doing crime”