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Andrew Klavan books: every book Andrew Klavan wrote and recommended
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Andrew Klavan appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Andrew Klavan
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True Crime
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Damnation Street (Weiss and Bishop)
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Rough Justice
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The Uncanny
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Hunting Down Amanda
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Identity Man
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Rain
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The House of Love and Death
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Man and wife
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Shotgun Alley (Captain Richard Bolitho Adventures)
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Empire of Lies
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The Last Thing I Remember
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Animal Hour
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A Killer In The Wind
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Hostage Run
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Werewolf cop
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When Christmas Comes
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A Strange Habit of Mind
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A Woman Underground
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Truth and Beauty
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The Great Good Thing
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The Truth of the Matter
Andrew Klavan’s most recommended books
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Holy Bible (NIV) by Various Authors,
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Boomers by Helen Andrews
Andrew Klavan is an American novelist, author, and conservative political commentator. He has worked in film, as an essayist, and as a video satirist, and he hosts The Andrew Klavan Show on The Daily Wire. Discussing literature and ideas on podcasts, Klavan recommended Raymond Chandler's novel The Long Goodbye and praised Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as one of the wisest gothic horror books ever written. He referenced the Book of Genesis from the Holy Bible as a profoundly insightful work on the human condition and recommended Stephen C. Meyer's The Return of the God Hypothesis during a discussion on creation intelligence. Klavan also recommended Helen Andrews's Boomers, Dave Rubin's Don't Burn This Book, and discussed Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay's The Federalist Papers to highlight the deep insights into humanity possessed by the American founders. Finally, he brought up his own past book, Empire of Lies, to discuss the clash between Islam and the West.
Books recommended by Andrew Klavan
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological masterpiece that explores the crushing guilt, moral torment, and eventual redemption of a destitute former student who commits a brutal murder in St.
Discussed“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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Frankenstein
Frankenstein by Mary W.
Discussed“i write a chapter on Frankenstein in which I make the argument that Frankenstein the do Frankenstein who creates this monster has not violated as Mary Shelly did has not violated God's prerogative”
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“if you look at brave new world you know what happens they get rid of mothers and they just make babies and machines”
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Empire of Lies
Empire of Lies by Andrew Klavan is a novel published in the 2000s that offers an intense, unflinching examination of the ideological and cultural clash between the Western world and Islam.
Discussed“When back in the 2000s I wrote a book called Empire of Lies which took a very honest look at the clash between uh Islam and the West.”
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The Giver
The Giver is a dystopian young adult novel by Lois Lowry set in a tightly controlled society that has eliminated pain, fear, and deep emotional experiences.
Discussed“if you look at the giver uh you know they relegate motherhood to the lowest person”
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The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu is a sweeping hard science fiction trilogy starter that chronicles humanity's first contact with an alien civilization facing imminent destruction from a triple-star system.
Discussed“I recently watched the three body problem a science fiction an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel the novel of which I kind of enjoyed and it was really interesting because the heroes were hard driving physicists all of whom were women”
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Don't Burn This Book
Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin is a political and cultural work that argues for the importance of independent thought and classical liberalism in a polarized society.
Book club“We're here with the Don't Burn This Book book club, we're doing chapter five, Check Your Facts, Not Your Privilege.”
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The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler is a seminal 1939 hardboiled detective novel that introduced the iconic investigator Philip Marlowe and established the atmospheric style of modern noir fiction.
Discussed“well the moment I became a mystery writer was the moment in the Big Sleep is right at the opening when Philip Marlo walks in and he sees a night in shining armor on a stained glass window”
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Holy Bible (NIV)
Holy Bible (NIV) by Various Authors is a foundational collection of sacred scriptures that has shaped Western civilization, religious traditions, and literary history for millennia.
Discussed“They're the authors of the Bible. You don't have to believe in God to understand that this is true.”
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a landmark twentieth-century American novel that explores the complex themes of identity, race, and societal invisibility through the eyes of an unnamed Black narrator moving from the American South to Harlem.
Discussed“It it is like when you go to a bookstore and try to find a copy of an American classic, Invisible Man, written by a black guy, and it's in black literature.”
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Boomers
Boomers by Helen Andrews offers a critical look at the generation that shaped modern American politics, culture, and institutions.
Recommended“he should read helen andrews on this he wrote a book called boomers is really interesting on this”
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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is a celebrated hardboiled detective novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.
Recommended“I mean, that's a great movie. 'The Long Goodbye' is a great novel.”
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The Return of the God Hypothesis
The Return of the God Hypothesis is a book by Stephen C.
Recommended“there's a wonderful book about this called the return of the god hypothesis”
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a famous 1843 novella about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge and his midnight visitations by ghostly specters that transform his life.
Discussed“And I love Christmas, and I always wanted to write a Christmas story, and I always thought the problem with most Christmas stories are bad. You know, really only "A Christmas Carol" and it is a wonderful life or good Christmas stories.”
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East of Eden
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is a sprawling, multi-generational masterpiece that adapts the Cain and Abel story into twentieth-century California.
Discussed“Well, there's a line in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which is basically the Cain and Abel story updated into California into 20th century California. There's a line in there where somebody says these verses in the Cain and Abel story is only like 16 verses long.”
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Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a foundational feminist and queer theory text by Judith Butler that challenges traditional notions of sex, gender, and identity by arguing that gender is performative rather than biological.
Critiqued“one angry lesbian college professor writes a book which I have read called gender trouble by Judith Butler”
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Please Stop Helping Us
Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L.
Discussed“jason reilly the one of the much better writers about black problems in america had a book it was called please stop helping us you know”
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The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine is a controversial historical work that re-examines American history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the national narrative.
Critiqued“and we're having this conversation on the day when the Pulitzer Prize is being given to The New York Times for a completely dishonest take on slavery and black people, their 1619 Project.”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel chronicling ambition, greed, and urban decay in 1980s New York City.
Discussed“and the other is a novel by the right-wing right leaning author Tom Wolf the bonfire of the vanities”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Discussed“and that's why he gets such wonderful arguments in Brothers karamazov uh because he confronted all the hardest arguments”
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The other 7 books Andrew Klavan recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Federalist papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, James Madison, John Jay
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
- The Terminal List by Jack Carr
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Transhumanism by Jennifer Huberman
- When Christmas Comes by Andrew Klavan
Questions about Andrew Klavan’s book recommendations
What book does Andrew Klavan recommend most?
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Andrew Klavan discussed it in 3 episodes.
How many books has Andrew Klavan recommended on podcasts?
We have found 27 books Andrew Klavan recommended or discussed, across 18 episodes of 4 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Andrew Klavan's reading list?
The books Andrew Klavan has recommended most on podcasts are Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. The full book list below has all 27.
What books has Andrew Klavan picked for the book club?
Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin, newest first.
What books has Andrew Klavan written?
True Crime (1995), Rough Justice (1997), The Uncanny (1998), Hunting Down Amanda (1999), Man and wife (2001), Shotgun Alley (Captain Richard Bolitho Adventures) (2004), Damnation Street (Weiss and Bishop) (2006), Empire of Lies (2008), The Last Thing I Remember (2009) and Identity Man (2010), among 22 in all.
What did Andrew Klavan recommend on The Megyn Kelly Show?
Crime and Punishment, Frankenstein and Brave New World, among 13 books in all.
What is the latest book Andrew Klavan recommended?
The Federalist papers, discussed on The Rubin Report (2026-02-18).
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Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I want every single person in your audience to go out and buy a woman underground my new mystery novel”
“He turned his book sales into a meme for my audience, and they started super chatting tricks to get me to read what would turn into a promo for something… what's the name of that book, 'Speechless', and they'd say, 'Tim, I really need to comment on how serious this is, it's left me speechless,' just like the book by”
“I wrote A Memoir of my conversion to Christianity called the great good thing”
“and recently I wrote a book called the truth and Beauty which was about the Romantic right”
“and recently I wrote a book called the truth and Beauty which was about the Romantic right”
“i in uh in the truth and Beauty I write a chapter on Frankenstein”
“i in uh in the truth and Beauty I write a chapter on Frankenstein”
“and he's a guy who like 'In The House of Love and Death, he's a guy who goes into enclaves of surviving civilization.”
“It started out with Will Smith's wife complaining because he wasn't nominated for a film called Concussion that nobody saw about football players and their injuries.”
“oh it's the sequel to When Christmas Comes which was a USA Today bestseller”
“oh it's the sequel to When Christmas Comes which was a USA Today bestseller the hero Cameron winter is fighting a social media billionaire uh whose opponents get canceled for good uh and it's uh this is the first character I've ever wanted to make into a series of 30 years of crime writing this is the first time I've”
“i'm the author of the truth in beauty which was my my latest book and the author of a million other books”
“i have to mention my book the truth and beauty because i want everybody to buy it”
“oh the truth the truth and beauty this is why i asked you at the beginning of the show you believe in objective truth”