What’s your New Year’s resolution? Have you decided to go vegan in 2015? Or are you already vegan but have decided to commit to eating healthier in the new year after spending 2014 indulging in one too many delicious accidentally vegan snacks? Maybe you just want to read up on animal rights issues or are looking for a book to help a child you know understand why you don’t eat meat. Whatever your goal is, we’ve got a book that will help you get there. Check out our list of must-have books:
General Cooking
- Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Thug Kitchen
- Keep It Vegan: 100 Simple, Healthy & Delicious Dishes by Áine Carlin
- Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
- The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow From the Inside Out by Angela Liddo
- Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
- Chloe’s Vegan Italian Kitchen: 150 Pizzas, Pastas, Pestos, Risottos, & Lots of Creamy Italian Classics by Chloe Coscarelli
- The Forks Over Knives Plan: How to Transition to the Life-Saving, Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet by Alona Pulde, MD, and Matthew Lederman, MD
- The China Study All-Star Collection: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes From Your Favorite Vegan Chefs by LeAnne Campbell
- Happy Herbivore Light & Lean: Over 150 Low-Calorie Recipes With Workout Plans for Looking and Feeling Great by Lindsay S Nixon
- Chloe’s Kitchen: 125 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Making the Food You Love the Vegan Way by Chloe Coscarelli
- Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed by Bryant Terry
- Mayim’s Vegan Table: More Than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes From My Family to Yours by Mayim Bialik
- Betty Goes Vegan: 500 Classic Recipes for the Modern Family by Dan Shannon and Annie Shannon
- Vegan Eats World: 300 International Recipes for Savoring the Planet by Terry Hope Romero
- The Conscious Cook: Delicious Meatless Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat by Tal Ronnen
- Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook by Kim Barnouin
- Skinny Bitch Bakery by Kim Barnouin
Budget Cooking
- Vegan on the Cheap: Great Recipes and Simple Strategies That Save You Time and Money by Robin Robertson
- PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook: 275 Easy, Cheap, and Delicious Recipes to Keep You Vegan at School by PETA
Desserts
- Ms Cupcake: The Naughtiest Vegan Cakes in Town by Mellissa Morgan
- Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes That Rule by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
- Easy as Vegan Pie: One-of-a-Kind Sweet and Savory Slices by Hannah Kaminsky
Vegan Health
- The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins
- Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure by Caldwell B Esselstyn Jr, MD
- The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health by T Colin Campbell
- Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T Colin Campbell
- Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much – and How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter by David Robinson Simon
- Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet by Jack Norris and Virginia Messina
Vegan Living
- Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living by Ingrid Newkirk
- The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet by Alicia Silverstone
- The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning by Alicia Silverstone
- Skinny Bitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
- How to Be Vegan by Elizabeth Castoria
- Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World by Kathy Freston
Animal Rights
- Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
- The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble by Ingrid Newkirk
- Last Chain on Billie: How One Extraordinary Elephant Escaped the Big Top by Carol Bradley
- We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur
- Free the Animals by Ingrid Newkirk
- One Can Make a Difference: How Simple Actions Can Change the World by Ingrid Newkirk
For Kids
- V Is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind by Ruby Roth
- That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things by Ruby Roth
- Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action by Ruby Roth
- Benji Bean Sprout Doesn’t Eat Meat by Sarah Rudy
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Charlotte’s Web by EB White, illustrated by Garth Williams