I’m a keen reader and try the include as many vegan authors as I can find in my book choices, fiction and non-fiction. Right now I’m looking forward to getting started on the new (and final) Karl Drinkwater Lost Solace novel, Finding Solace.
Not vegan, but I highly recommend The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. That book was hugely historical in exposing Chicago’s slauterhouses and led to massive public uproar, significant decrease of meat consumption in the US, and new laws being passed (Meat Inspection Act).
Should be required reading in the US.
Edit: To clarify, this is a fiction book that (despite the subject nature) is a very easy & fun read.
Yes, I read The Jungle recently. It’s pretty grim in places where it discusses conditions in the meat packing plants and the way the people employed there were living. I’m not surprised it had such an effect and possibly still does?
I set up a community for stuff like this https://lemmy.world/c/vegantheoryclub
(I used to have a bunch of links to books, but they were all in z-library. The books are still there, but I can’t link them. You have to join zlib and search)
I’m gradually building a reviews library on my vegan ko-fi. I love seeing how many books are out there!
Some vegan authors I recommend:
- Jane Goodall
- Angela Davis
- Ibram X. Kendi
- Coretta Scott King
- Greta Thunberg
Ibram X Kendi is vegan? I’d missed that!
TIL Greta Thunberg has published books. Thanks!
Peter Singer is not a vegan unfortunately.
Damn, you’re right. Removed.
I haven’t read it, but I think the most commonly-recommended book that my vegan friends have suggested is Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Thanks, that looks an interesting one. I’ll keep an eye out for a copy 👍
I used to be an avid reader, but in recent years life got in the way. I’m recently trying to pick the habit up again. I don’t think I know any vegan authors (if they are famous I might have read something by them without knowing their stance towards veganism)
I don’t think the authors I’ve found are particularly famous though some of them write so well that they should be!
I am currently reading Julio Cabrera’s “A Critique of Affirmative Morality”.
When I read Julio Cabrera’s “Discomfort and Moral Impediment” and it made me want to be a less harmful person.
I really enjoy reading Thomas Ligotti stories and H. P. Lovecraft stories. I can only really stomach pessimistic horror stories or philosophical pessimism.
