Ian Buruma autor je brojnih knjiga, među kojima su Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance, Year Zero: A History of 1945, A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir, The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, From Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit, The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II i Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah (Yale University Press, 2024). Njegove komentare objavljuje Project Syndicate.