In 2017, Murray published "The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam", which spent almost 20 weeks on "The Sunday Times" bestseller list and was a No. 1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide. In "The Strange Death of Europe", Murray argued that Europe "is committing suicide" by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its "faith in its beliefs". The book received a polarized response from critics. Juliet Samuel of "The Telegraph" praised Murray, saying that: "His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute." An academic review in the "Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs" acclaimed the book as "explosive" and "an elegantly written, copiously documented exposé of Europe’s suicidal hypocrisy". Rod Liddle of "The Times" called the book "a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book". Conversely, other reviews of the book were highly negative. Pankaj Mishra's review in "The New York Times" described the book as "a handy digest of far-right clichés". Writing in "The Intercept", Murtaza Hussain criticized what he called the "relentlessly paranoid tenor" and "apocalyptic picture of Europe" portrayed in the book, while challenging the links Murray makes between non-European immigration and large increases in crime. In "Middle East Eye", Georgetown professor Ian Almond called the book "a staggeringly one-sided flow of statistics, interviews and examples, reflecting a clear decision to make the book a rhetorical claim that Europe is doomed to self-destruction". According to the New York Times review, Murray defends the German nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right group Pegida in "The Strange Death of Europe"; writes that the English nationalist, anti-Islam, far-right English Defence League "had a point" and described Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a better sentinel of "European values" than George Soros.