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Douglas Murray books: every book Douglas Murray wrote and recommended
Across 7 podcasts. Every show Douglas Murray appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Douglas Murray
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War on the West
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The Strange Death of Europe
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The Madness of Crowds
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Neo Conservatism
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Bloody Sunday
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On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray’s most recommended books
- Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Horace Barnett Samuel
- White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin
Douglas Kear Murray is a British conservative political commentator, cultural critic, author, and journalist. He is an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazine The Spectator, and has been a regular contributor to The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, the Daily Mail, New York Post, National Review, The Free Press, and UnHerd. During his various podcast appearances, Douglas Murray has discussed, recommended, or brought up several notable works. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, he mentioned Miguel de Unamuno's Tragic Sense of Life while recounting a historical anecdote about fanaticism, and later brought up Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate to discuss its depiction of anti-Semitism. On the same podcast, he recommended Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday while discussing historical attitudes toward sex. While appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, Murray discussed Stephen King's memoir on the craft of writing, On Writing. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, he brought up Elie Wiesel's The Trial of God and recommended reading it, and on another episode mentioned blurbing Andy Ngo's book Unmasked while praising its commercial success. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Murray discussed Noah Rothman's book The New Puritans, using it to compare the woke movement to Puritans.
Books recommended by Douglas Murray
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is a sweeping masterpiece depicting the brutality and human ramifications of the Eastern Front, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism during World War II.
Discussed“There's this rule, as you know, that I go into in the book that I've mowled on a lot that I got from the great Soviet Jewish writer Vasley Gman, who I who appears intermittently throughout the book. Um, and Vasley Gman had this terrific dictim in the middle of life and fate where he says, "Tell me what you”
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How to Be an Antiracist
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X.
Critiqued“as I quote in the book Ibraham X kendi um says in his book how to be an anti-racist which is really a guide for how to be a racist uh he just should have taken the uh anti out of the title and he would have accurately titled his own book”
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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“i i quote in the war in the west this this when i read it first time a few years ago i was absolutely flawed by the brothers karamazov”
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The pilgrim's progress
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is a famous Christian allegory that follows a character named Christian on his arduous journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, overcoming numerous trials, temptations, and monsters along the way.
Discussed“I gave the example in my last book, 'The War on the West,' of a rather delicious yet savage lesson a group of French sailors learned after Rousseau's writings. They were heavily influenced by Rousseau, land on an island in New Zealand, and assume the native people live in a state of nature.”
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is a controversial postmodern novel that explores themes of migration, identity, and religious faith, famously resulting in a fatwa calling for the author's death upon its publication.
Discussed“And it's actually a scene that appears in "The Satanic Verses" of Rushdie, where that exact same thing happens.”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is a notorious autobiographical manifesto outlining the author's political ideology and anti-Semitic worldview.
Discussed“...the numbers of copies of "Mein Kampf" in Arabic in an average Gazan household, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."”
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Orientalism
Orientalism by Edward W.
Discussed“i point out again with one of the most prominent postcolonial writers edward syed who every benighted student has had to study and almost any university has come across orientalism at some point and one of saeed's fundamental critiques of the west is that it sort of it essentializes people in the east and you know there's quite a lot”
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The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals offers a radical critique of traditional morality, tracing the historical development of concepts like guilt, conscience, and the slave revolt in ethics.
Discussed“well i i quote in the opening and um and later on in the book as you know a phrase of nature which i sort of add to from the genealogy of morals when nietzsche refers it um in passing but i think he's such a remarkable phrase i wanted to to bring it out and throw it to the”
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The Madness of Crowds
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray is a provocative contemporary commentary that investigates the cultural, social, and political shifts surrounding modern identity politics, intersectionality, and public discourse.
Discussed“when I was suggested that they should interview me about The Madness of crowds uh the P the person who suggested it almost lost her job”
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Critiqued“Robin D'Angelo who wrote White fragility another one of theologizing anti-white books of our time”
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War on the West
The War on the West by Douglas Murray is a cultural commentary examining contemporary criticisms of Western civilization and the ideological battles shaping modern political discourse in America and Britain.
Discussed“I mean I say in, the book that, there was a sort of, for instance, there was a conservative idea which was mistaken”
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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“Hello, I'm Douglas Murray, and welcome to the "Don't Burn This Book" book club.”
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The Life And Fate Of Vasily Grossman
The Life And Fate Of Vasily Grossman by Carol Garrard is a profound historical and literary work depicting the sweeping human drama of the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
Recommended“You know that Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate?”
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Tragic Sense Of Life
Tragic Sense of Life is a profound philosophical work by the Spanish thinker Miguel de Unamuno that explores the deep existential conflicts between human reason and the eternal longing for immortality.
Recommended“Did you ever read the "Tragic Sense of Life," Miguel de Unamuno? A great Spanish existentialist philosopher who died in the 30s.”
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The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is a widely read nonfiction book that challenges the traditional sociological doctrine that the human mind is entirely shaped by culture and environment at birth, arguing instead for a nuanced view of innate human nature and genetics.
Discussed“I mean uh that's one of the things that pink is right on in the blank slate is uh deaths in tribal societies pre-modernity way higher the the violent deaths way”
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The Leopard
Discussed“what was the other one oh the leopard obviously the leopard of giuseppe de la producer”
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Discussed“Personally, I have read and reread William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, who's another journalist who was there.”
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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.
Recommended“james lindsey and helen black rose as you just mentioned that you've spoken with um also do an excellent task in a portion of this to do with the academic element in their new book um cynical theories”
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On Writing
Stephen King's On Writing is a celebrated hybrid of memoir and practical manual that chronicles the author's formative struggles and recovery while offering direct, invaluable advice for aspiring writers on craft, discipline, and the mechanics of prose.
Recommended“His book on writing is really fascinating it's a very very interesting book”
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Rise of the New Puritans
Rise of the New Puritans by Noah Rothman is a cultural critique examining how progressives have waged a war on fun and policing speech.
Recommended“Noah Rothman has a good book coming out it's I reviewed it in advance and it's about this from a different vantage point but one of the points he makes is they take Delight in extinguishing Joy uh I think it's the book is called the new Puritans and it comp seen yeah it compares the the woke to the”
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The other 36 books Douglas Murray recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Trial of God by Elie Wiesel
- The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
- Unmasked by Andy Ngo
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
- Bias by Bernard Goldberg
- Bible by Bible
- Candide by Francois Voltaire
- Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
- Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
- Defeat Into Victory by Field-Marshal Viscount William Slim
- Don Juan by Lord Byron
- Fairer Tales by Unknown
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Lord of Flies by William Golding
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Sergei Nilus
- Radical Chic by Tom Wolfe
- Reflections on the revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig Symposium
- Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
- Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
- The Bench by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex
- The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley
- The Gates of the Forest by Elie Wiesel
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
- The Ickabog by J. K. Rowling
- The storm of war by Andrew Roberts
- The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
- The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Questions about Douglas Murray’s book recommendations
What book does Douglas Murray recommend most?
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Douglas Murray recommended it in 4 episodes.
How many books has Douglas Murray recommended on podcasts?
We have found 56 books Douglas Murray recommended or discussed, across 24 episodes of 7 podcasts. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Douglas Murray's reading list?
The books Douglas Murray has recommended most on podcasts are Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The pilgrim's progress by John Bunyan and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. The full book list below has all 56.
What books has Douglas Murray picked for the book club?
Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin, newest first.
What books has Douglas Murray written?
Neo Conservatism (2006), Bloody Sunday (2012), The Strange Death of Europe (2017), The Madness of Crowds (2019), War on the West (2022) and On Democracies and Death Cults (2025).
What did Douglas Murray recommend on Lex Fridman Podcast?
Life and Fate, The Brothers Karamazov and The pilgrim's progress, among 18 books in all.
What is the latest book Douglas Murray recommended?
Life and Fate, discussed on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast (2025-05-12).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (89: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“I mean I mention this in the war on the West, but consider the extraordinary extent to which say irrational resentment can power a person's life.”
“I wrote about this 10 years ago in my book Strange Death of Europe.”
“Well, well, as I see it too, and as you know, I'm writing about this for many years, principally in the strange death of Europe.”
“And as you know, I one of the things I said in that book was we are we are teaching young people born in the 21st century in America and the rest of the West that they are guilty by being by dent of being born here.”
“I think that there there's something very important psychologically which I if I can say so which I identify in the book which is in the book before this the war on the west I talked at some length about the anti-Americanism and anti-westernism that existed in America in particular”
“In the book before this the war on the west I talked at some length about the anti-Americanism and anti-westernism that existed in America in particular um and what I said there was that there was a very dangerous thing being set up in the United States”
“I think I was doing the Matters of Crowds and you were in your uh place in Newcastle with a mold on the ceiling.”
“Well, I tried in a book some years ago called The Strange Death of Europe and um said almost everything I had to say about that.”
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“And um also, but I'm chasing I'm getting very close to catching up with a a great tome you probably know as well called Hippity Hoppity Little Bunny Finger Puppet Board Book for Easter.”
“Also, Little Blue Truck Springtime is doing very well.”
“So, he wrote a book called Golfing for Cats with a cat with a swastiker armband on the cover. How did it do? Quite well, actually, I think.”
“As I said in my last book, in the war on the West, we have been told that, you know, like we're guilty. I mean, this is all horseshit, by the way, but I mean, you know, that we're uniquely guilty from colonialism or uniquely guilty from slavery”
“It's one of the things in the nature of a liberal democracy that because we have the right to air our opinion because we have the right to criticize our government and much more we end up doing all of that and there is a misapprehension people can come to I don't know if you do but they can come”
“That sounds like "Animal Farm." But yes, two legs better, but yes, democracy's better and invading countries is bad.”
“Well, the book, "On Democracies and Death Cults," is a mixture of firsthand reporting and observation, interviews, and a wider reflection...”
“the numbers of copies of "Mein Kampf" in Arabic in an average Gazan household,”
“When you and I last talked on camera, we were talking about my last book "The War on the West."”
“And I remember setting it up there in "The War on the West." I set up like this very, very risky...”
“As you know, I start "On Democracy and Death Cults" with the flight taken of Ayatollah Khomeini”
“Oh, well, one of the things is that it's a follow-on from, you know, I wrote this book The War on the West, which you and I discussed when it came out about 18 months ago.”
“One of the things is that it’s a follow-on from the book 'The War on the West,' which you and I discussed when it came out about 18 months ago.”
“Well, it partly from that and partly from the previous books, including my one The Strange Death of Europe, came out in 2017.”
“The Strange Death of Europe was largely my last-ditch attempt to warn my own society of birth and other Western countries not to go down the path that they were precisely going down.”
“'The Strange Death of Europe' was largely my last-ditch attempt to warn my society and others in the West not to follow the path we were on.”
“It's what I wrote about in the war on the West, the jabbing majority populations.”
“You don't have a culture; it's what I read about in the war in the West—the jab at the majority populations.”
“Yeah, no, and that's why, I mean, the great answer—I said at the end of The War in the West—the great answer to all of this, and it also comes back to what you were saying about pride.”
“and I one of the points of running the war on the West Was to warn against this because I just think it has such catastrophic consequences”
“I wrote about about that a bit in the strange death of Europe because obviously like in Germany that's still a massive subject”