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Every book Andrew Doyle recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Andrew Doyle appears on, in one place — not just one.
Andrew Doyle’s most recommended books
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli
- White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Lying by Sam Harris
- A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- C Is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison
- Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
- Defending My Enemy by Aryeh Neier
Andrew Doyle appeared on several podcasts to discuss and recommend various literary and political works. On Modern Wisdom, he recommended Sam Harris's book Lying, describing it as a great, concise justification for why individuals should never lie. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Doyle discussed Aryeh Neier's book Defending My Enemy while talking about the ACLU and free speech rights, Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage regarding free speech and gender issues, and Hannah Barnes's Time to Think in the context of adolescent referrals to the Tavistock gender clinic. Later, on Modern Wisdom, Doyle referenced Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago to examine human susceptibility to evil and the fallacy of dividing humanity simplistically into good and bad. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, he brought up Franz Kafka's The Trial to compare UK police tactics with Kafka's work, William Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis to discuss artistic patronage, and George Orwell's Animal Farm, noting the historical difficulties of its publication due to its themes of left-wing authoritarianism.
Books recommended by Andrew Doyle
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo is a popular children's book featuring illustrated short biographies of major historical and contemporary feminist icons.
Discussed“Books like "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" and "C is for Consent," there was that one.”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Critiqued“even when i read white fragility by robin deangelo which i think is a terrible book and is is so flawed throughout every now and then she'll hit on something”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“it's precisely the reason why when he wrote Animal Farm he couldn't get it published for so long because people were horrified by the possibility that left-wing people could be authoritarian”
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Lying
Lying by Sam Harris is a concise and provocative extended essay that serves as a direct treatise on why individuals should avoid telling lies, including white lies, and instead commit fully to a life of honesty.
Recommended“know anyone who wants to read a very good short book online sam harris is like one how can one Iomega and it is a one our justification for why you should never lie yeah and it's absolutely great”
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A Game of Thrones
A Game of Thrones by George R.
Critiqued“I did a review of Game of Thrones by series by series where they judged each episode as good or bad on the percentage points of how much female characters speak”
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic American novel chronicling a journey down the Mississippi River and exploring deep moral questions through the relationship between Huck and the runaway slave Jim.
Discussed“if you're teaching huckleberry finn although of course a lot of people aren't now because they they say it's a racist book because it contains the word”
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Antiracist Baby
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X.
Discussed“you know he's just done one called anti-racist baby i don't know if you saw that as a scene it's gone out”
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C Is for Consent
Discussed“Books like "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" and "C is for Consent," there was that one.”
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Cynical Theories
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay is a critical examination of postmodernism, social justice scholarship, and modern political ideologies.
Discussed“It was put like this in James Lindsay and Helen pluck Rose's book that the key question that you ask if you are a critical race theory is not a theorist is not uh did racism take place in this situation”
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Defending My Enemy
Defending My Enemy by Aryeh Neier is a compelling historical account written by the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union regarding the organization's controversial legal defense of free speech rights for neo-Nazis marching in Skokie, Illinois.
Discussed“There was a book by a guy called Aya Nia who was the head of the ACLU called Defending Miami.”
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Dominion
Dominion by Tom Holland is a sweeping historical work examining how Christianity shaped Western culture, secular values, and modern moral frameworks.
Discussed“Tom Holland wrote is a historian he wrote a book recently called Dominion”
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Free Speech And Why It Matters
Discussed“and that's probably the real reason i wrote the book actually because i want i want the idea of free speech to be elevated again as a sacrosanct principle so that we can have these conversations”
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Be a (Young) Antiracist by Ibram X.
Critiqued“i you know he's just done one called anti-racist baby I don't know if you saw that as a scene it's gone out”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Discussed“or or how to be an how to be anti-racist by abraham max kennedy”
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a 2020 non-fiction book that explores the social contagion aspect of gender dysphoria, focusing on the sudden, massive surge in teenage girls identifying as transgender.
Discussed“I mean there was a a lawyer for the ACLU tweeting about how he wanted Abigail Shrier's book banned and he said this is the hill I will die on.”
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic American novella chronicling the tragic journey of two displaced migrant ranch workers, George and Lennie, as they desperately pursue their shared dream during the Great Depression.
Discussed“if you're quoting from a text if you're teaching of mice and men by steinbeck in which the word occurs frequently”
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On Liberty
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a foundational 19th-century philosophical essay that defends the liberty of the individual against the absolute power of the state and societal conformity.
Discussed“actually this struggle between Liberty and Authority which which John Stuart Mill talks about in his book on Liberty”
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Once upon a time in ... Hollywood
Discussed“so like you saw that with Tarantino with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”
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The Crucible
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a classic theatrical drama that dramatizes the 1692 Salem witch trials as an allegory for the political persecutions of McCarthyism.
Discussed“the um arthur miller when he wrote the crucible which is his dramatization of the witch trials in salem it was written in the early 50s i think 1952 1953 uh he wrote that because of mccarthyism”
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The God Delusion
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a prominent polemical work that argues against the existence of a creator deity and critiques the societal impacts of religion.
Discussed“and and Richard Dawkins address that point in his book The God Delusion”
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The other 6 books Andrew Doyle recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
- The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
- The once and future liberal by Mark Lilla
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Time to Think by Hannah Barnes
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Books Andrew Doyle wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Well, I know why you're saying this cuz I wrote a book called The End of Woke, but that as you know, I think you've read it. you know that I'm not saying it's all over.”
“In the meantime, you can read my Substack which is andrew Doyle.org or my book End of Woke. It's the new book that I've written or any of my other books if you like.”
“I mean it happened recently where a well-known author Bo John Bo came out in Def who was someone who had attacked he wrote The Boy in the Shri pajam very famous novel”
“and in the book I do make it clear I've called the book the new Puritans um and I refer to the religion of social justice”
“well you know i've written a book now about it i'm i'm i i think we need to stop tolerating it i think we need to laugh it out of existence”
“or they've you know i mean you just have to read 1984 to understand how how that's working”
“They've been all in um in the archipelago there's an example of this uh where solzhenitsyn talks about”
“or when like when they put trigger warnings on major works of literature and in universities like um the old man in the sea the hemingway book which had a trigger warning that said warned about that this book contains scenes of graphic fishing”
“and if they want to read my new book it's called the new puritans and that is kind of my last word on the culture war base i mean i've basically said everything i've got to say about it i can't draw a line underneath that with it within that book so i think that would be the way to”
“i think one of the reasons i wrote the book is fundamentally there are so many misconceptions around around free speech”
“because she's named after the queen of the fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream”
“which like each chapters about a major feminist icon that's aimed at young kids there's one called see is for consent that's aimed at very young kids”
“so like I thought so I've written a book as titania and she's trying to it's called my first little book of intersectional activism right because she can't get it”
“it's called my first little book of intersectional activism”
“the book was um the book came out in March walk link will be in the show notes below yeah please buy that gen reason I'm here”