What are the Must Read books for animal activists?

[Recommended reading/Book reviews]

I just read two more excellent books, which follow another book I recently read and appreciated. (Speciesism by Joan Dunayer, An American Trilogy by Steven Wise and An Unnatural Order by Jim Mason).

I have a long list of books that I wish everyone on earth would read, but wonder which ones I am overlooking. So here is my question: which books do you wish everyone would read, especially animal activists?

[Pablo Fernández-Beri]

I'd strongly recommend 'Introduction to Animal Rights: your child or the dog', 'Rain without Thunder' and 'Animals as Persons', by Prof. Gary L. Francione

[adam W]

Here are some books I'd recommend that give historical, cultural, and philosophic context to interspecies injustice and how they are entangled with injustices against humans. I have a more complete list here and a list of newly published books that have me excited even before reading them.

Anthologies and Readers on AR

Animal Ethics Reader 2nd ed. (Susan Armstrong 2003/2008)
* The Animals Reader: The Essential and Contemporary Writings (Linda Kalof & Amy Fitzgerald 2006)
* Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology (Andrew Lindzey and Paul Clarke 1990)
Animal Rights Debate: Current Debates, New Directions (Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum 2004)
* Animal Philosophy: Essential Readings in Continental Thought (Matthew Calarco & Peter Atterton 2004)
Food for Thought: The Debate Over Eating Meat (Steve Sapontzis 2004)
Social Creatures: A  Human and Animal Studies Reader (Clif Flynn 2008)

Books w/ an explicit AR Position
* Sexual Politics of Meat (Carol Adams 1990)
* Beyond Boundaries (Barbara Noske 1997)
Animal Rights / Human Rights (David Nibert 2002)
* Making a Killing (Bob Torres 2007)
Dreaded Comparison (Marjorie Spiegel 1996)
Eternal Treblinka (Charles Patterson 2002)
* An Unnatural Order (Jim Mason 2005)
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (John Sanbonmatsu 2011)

History, Geography, and Ecology
* Blood Rites (Barbara Ehrenreich 1995)
Animal Estate (Harriet Ritvo 1987)
Creatures of Empire (Virginia Anderson 2005)
Beyond Beef (Jeremy Rifkin 1995)
Animal Geographies (1998)
* The Others (Paul Shepard 1996)
* Environmental Culture (Val Plumwood 2002)

[Louise, London]

Thanks Adam !  That's just what I'm interested in learning about.  The H.E.A.L.T.H site looks fascinating too!! 

[red dog]

You've all given me tons of reading to do!