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Top 10: Essential Vegan & Vegetarian Book Reading List
-Books and recommendation by Peta.
We are often asked to recommend a book that would work best for someone interested in learning about veganism or vegetarianism. Ten years ago, this was an easy question to answer, since there were so few at the time.
In my estimation, the two best all-purpose books about vegetarianism remain the Marcus and Robbins books discussed below. But many people are not so interested in a straightforward, well-sourced, scientific book about veganism, which makes some of the other recommendations better suited for certain readers.
Here are my favorites, with some reflections on each; we (strongly) suggest that all vegetarian advocates read all of them so that you can recommend them articulately and loan them to friends and relatives.
- The Food Revolution by John Robbins
- Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus
- Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bastard by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
- Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish, M.D.
- Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D.
- The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
- The Engine-2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn
- Quantum Wellness and The Quantum Wellness Cleanse by Kathy Freston
- The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) Healthy Eating for Life Book Series
- Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda Davis
#1 The Food Revolution by John Robbins
If I could make everyone in the world watch one movie, Iâm with Peter Singer: Iâd make them watch Sean Monsonâs Earthlings. If I could make them read one book, it would be this one. John Robbinsâ writing style and overwhelming avalanche of facts makes an irrefutable case that anyone who cares about the environment, their health, the global food crisis, or animals should be eating a vegetarian diet. Says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk, âA vital and wonderful book and easy to digest, this is a perfect read for anyone with a body, a mind, and a heart. The Food Revolution is the most positive book of the decade.â
#2 Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus
Iâm quoted on the cover of Vegan stating that this is the best concise introduction to veganism that exists. Eight years after its publication, thatâs still true. You can read it in a few sittings, itâs extremely well-written, and it does most of what Robbins does, but more concisely. For someone who is open to reading about vegetarianism but may not want to read something as in depth as Robbins, this is the perfect choice.
#3 Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bastard by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
The best-selling vegetarian book in world history, Skinny Bitch has been published in more than a dozen languages, boasts more than 3 million copies in print, and has turned countless people vegetarian, including home-run slugger Prince Fielder and other notables. This is by far the best book for the younger set (and for anyone, really, who enjoys a chatty and irreverentâand I do mean irreverent, so be warned!-tone). Skinny Bastard will be out soon and should be on your gift list for all the young men you know. Just to be clear: These are diet books, but they also go into all the reasons to eat a vegetarian diet-with humor and verve.
#4 Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish, M.D.
Ornishâs foreword to the 2001 edition remains one of the most convincing and concise health arguments for vegetarianism that I have ever read, and the entire book is superb. Ornish crushes the Atkins diet and explains that a low fat vegetarian diet is the only way to long-term weight loss, with concomitant benefits, including increased energy, better sex, and a much lower likelihood of dying from a heart attack. Speaking of which â¦
#5 Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D.
If you know someone with angina or who has suffered a heart attack, stop reading now and buy them this book-itâs just spectacular. Although it only covers heart disease, it makes an overwhelming and irrefutable case that heart disease-which kills half of men and almost half of women-is self inflicted and that a vegetarian diet can not only prevent but also reverse the disease. On the American Heart Association diet, patients keep getting worse, just a bit more slowly. On Esselstynâs vegetarian diet, they all get better-yes, all of them. And the book makes the case with stories about actual people-named in the book-who have changed their lives by adopting a vegetarian diet. The stories are priceless.
#6 The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
There is a small war between those who think that Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease makes the best scientific argument for vegetarianism from a health perspective and those who believe that this book does. What Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease does from a heart disease vantage, this book does regarding cancer, making an overwhelming scientific case that animal protein both causes and fuels cancer.
#7 The Engine-2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn
Texas firefighter Rip Esselstyn explains how he put his entire unit on a low fat vegetarian diet and how every one of them found the health benefits inspiring. These were already healthy guys, and they were definitely GUYS-Texas firefighters! If they can do it, anyone can. With an extremely appealing narrative style, Esselstyn offers up the overwhelming scientific evidence on behalf of vegetarianism for health reasons, covering heart disease, cancer, and obesity especially well. The Engine-2 Diet is Skinny Bastard for people who are a bit older and/or a bit less insane ⦠I mean, irreverent (also, unlike Bastard,this one doesnât cover environmentalism and animal protection).
#8 Quantum Wellness and The Quantum Wellness Cleanse by Kathy Freston
In our toxic society, Kathy Freston is breathing in some much-needed fresh air, with chapters discussing not just the importance of eating a vegetarian diet for health, ecological, and spiritual reasons but also a range of other practices to make us the happiest and healthiest people we can possibly be. Anyone you know who enjoys Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Thich Nhat Hanh, or the Dalai Lama-give them these books. The first book sports an introduction by Mehmet Oz, M.D., and the second by Dean Ornish, M.D.-you canât beat those endorsements!
#9 The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) - Healthy Eating for Life Book Series
PCRM promotes preventive medicine, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research. This series includes books on womenâs health, raising healthy vegetarian kids, cancer, and diabetes. Theyâre a bit drier than the other selections, but the Vegetarian Diets for Children and the Vegetarian Diets for Women books are by far the best books that exist on these two topics.
#10 Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda David
The authors of Becoming Vegetarian explore the benefits of a vegan diet (eating without meat, eggs or dairy products). More and more people are being motivated to become vegans because of the impact of their nutritional choices on their health, the environment, animal rights, and human hunger. As registered dietitians, Davis and Melina are well-qualified to provide the latest information on: how a vegan diet can protect against cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses getting all the protein you need without meat meeting your needs for calcium without dairy products what vegans need to know about B12 why good fats are vital to healthy and how to get them balanced diets for infants, children, and seniors pregnancy and breast-feeding tips for vegan moms considerations for overweight, underweight, and eating disorders achieving peak performance as a vegan athlete how to deal gracefully with a non-vegan world
There is, of course, quite a bit of overlap among these books. The overall theme, I think, is that there is a vegetarian book for everyone you know-oh, and just to be clear, these books all advocate veganism, not just vegetarianism.
Happy reading!