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Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by Peter Singer (shelved 67 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,282 ratings — published 1975
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Safran Foer (shelved 59 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.14 — 45,421 ratings — published 2009
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (Paperback)
by Bob Torres (Goodreads Author) (shelved 42 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.15 — 697 ratings — published 2007
Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World (Paperback)
by Bob Torres (Goodreads Author) (shelved 39 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,259 ratings — published 2005
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others (Hardcover)
by Melanie Joy (shelved 35 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,025 ratings — published 2009
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (Paperback)
by Matthew Scully (shelved 34 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,548 ratings — published 2002
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food (Hardcover)
by Gene Baur (shelved 31 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,304 ratings — published 2008
The Case for Animal Rights: Updated with a New Preface (Paperback)
by Tom Regan (shelved 30 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.15 — 486 ratings — published 1983
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Paperback)
by Gary L. Francione (shelved 30 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.36 — 467 ratings — published 2000
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Paperback)
by Carol J. Adams (shelved 30 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,954 ratings — published 1990
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (Paperback)
by Gail A. Eisnitz (shelved 26 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,502 ratings — published 1997
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by Peter Singer (shelved 25 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,289 ratings — published 2006
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (shelved 25 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,020 ratings — published 2003
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights (Paperback)
by Tom Regan (shelved 22 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.07 — 266 ratings — published 2003
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat (Paperback)
by Howard F. Lyman (shelved 21 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,843 ratings — published
Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals (Paperback)
by Karen Dawn (shelved 20 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.14 — 811 ratings — published 2008
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food (Hardcover)
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (shelved 19 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,481 ratings — published 2009
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (shelved 19 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,358 ratings — published 1994
The Inner World of Farm Animals: Their Amazing Intellectual, Emotional and Social Capacities (Hardcover)
by Amy Hatkoff (shelved 18 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.37 — 650 ratings — published 2009
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animals (Paperback)
by Anthony J. Nocella II (shelved 18 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.35 — 258 ratings — published 2004
Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by John Robbins (shelved 18 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,403 ratings — published 1987
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals (Hardcover)
by Hal Herzog (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,218 ratings — published 2010
Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation (Hardcover)
by Gary L. Francione (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.17 — 157 ratings — published 2008
The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy - and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by Marc Bekoff (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,385 ratings — published 2007
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (Paperback)
by Charles Patterson (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.19 — 358 ratings — published 2002
Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Paperback)
by Gary L. Francione (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.09 — 205 ratings — published 1996
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery (Paperback)
by Marjorie Spiegel (shelved 16 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.97 — 256 ratings — published 1988
Meat Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money (Paperback)
by Erik Marcus (Goodreads Author) (shelved 15 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.84 — 551 ratings — published 2005
Striking At The Roots: A Practical Guide To Animal Activism (Paperback)
by Mark Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) (shelved 15 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.85 — 253 ratings — published 2008
Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous! (Paperback)
by Rory Freedman (shelved 14 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.32 — 31,257 ratings — published 2005
Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect (Paperback)
by Marc Bekoff (shelved 13 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.24 — 271 ratings — published 2007
The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony (Paperback)
by Will Tuttle (shelved 13 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.24 — 814 ratings — published 2005
Animals Property & The Law (Paperback)
by Gary L. Francione (shelved 13 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.19 — 114 ratings — published 1995
Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment (Hardcover)
by David Kirby (Goodreads Author) (shelved 12 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.86 — 820 ratings — published 2010
Gristle: from Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)
by Moby (shelved 11 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.73 — 262 ratings — published 2010
Rattling The Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals (Paperback)
by Steven M. Wise (shelved 11 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.98 — 173 ratings — published 2000
The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in Today's World (Paperback)
by Matt Ball (shelved 11 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.31 — 241 ratings — published 2009
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health (Paperback)
by T. Colin Campbell (shelved 11 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.20 — 14,664 ratings — published 2006
The Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by J.M. Coetzee (shelved 11 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,222 ratings — published 1999
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them (Hardcover)
by Wayne Pacelle (shelved 10 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.08 — 969 ratings — published 2011
That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things (Hardcover)
by Ruby Roth (shelved 10 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.99 — 365 ratings — published 2009
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by Eric Schlosser (shelved 10 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.69 — 220,951 ratings — published 2001
The Pornography of Meat (Paperback)
by Carol J. Adams (shelved 10 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.70 — 321 ratings — published 2003
Free the Animals (Paperback)
by Ingrid Newkirk (shelved 10 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.17 — 253 ratings — published 1992
Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating (Paperback)
by Erik Marcus (Goodreads Author) (shelved 9 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.00 — 891 ratings — published 1955
Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by Melanie Joy (shelved 9 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 104 ratings — published 2008
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by Jonathan Balcombe (shelved 9 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.91 — 263 ratings — published 2006
The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA (Paperback)
by Norm Phelps (shelved 9 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.18 — 52 ratings — published 2007
Vegan's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately (Hardcover)
by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (Goodreads Author) (shelved 8 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 4.26 — 834 ratings — published 2011
The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint (Paperback)
by Marc Bekoff (shelved 8 times as animal-rights)
avg rating 3.87 — 540 ratings — published 2009
“If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.
Can we tell a new story?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Can we tell a new story?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
― César Chávez
― César Chávez











