Becoming Vegan: Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet
- Brenda Davis & Vesanto Melina

This book is the essential resource for anyone following a vegan diet. Foremost vegetarian dietitians present up-to-date findings on: protection against cancer & heart disease, getting enough protein without meat, why good fats are vital and how to get them, meeting calcium needs without dairy products, what vegans need to know about vitamin B12, balanced vegan diets for athletes, infants, children, and seniors, pregnancy and breast-feeding tips for vegan moms.

The Vegan Sourcebook
- Joanne Stepaniak

A wonderful, all-encompassing guide for both newcomers and longtime vegans. If you are thinking about going vegan, this book will tell you everything you need to know. An invaluable resource that offers tons of tips and at the same time is a reminder that being vegan is just one aspect of a compassionate lifestyle.

Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
- Erik Marcus

In this book, you will find the latest information about how what you eat affects your health, the environment, and the existence of the animals who share this planet. Vegan explains clearly how simple but significant the switch to an all-plant diet can be. Well-written and fully referenced, you can also download a pdf of the entire book.

Being Vegan
- Joanne Stepaniak

In this definitive guide to veganism, an often misunderstood lifestyle choice, renowned activist and award-winning online columnist Joann Stepaniak fields questions from both friends and foes, describing how compassion, kindness, and respect for all animals - including human beings - can be thoughtfully and practically incorporated into day-to-day living. Tackling a wide range of difficult, useful, and engaging topics - from maintaining vegan convictions under social pressure to finding hidden animal by-products in ingredients lists - Joanne provides insight, reassurance, and answers for the many difficult questions that vegans face in a non-vegan world.

Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook
- Carol J. Adams

If you are vegetarian or vegan, you know that living with and eating with meat eaters can present a myriad of difficult issues. Summer barbecues, Christmas dinners, or even a simple business lunch can be cause for discussions questioning vegetarianism as a lifestyle choice - leading to awkward situations, and at worse to anger and defensiveness. Beyond these often tense encounters, simple day-to-day tasks like grocery shopping and preparing the evening meal can be tough, especially when your partner or child doesn't share your commitment to living as a vegetarian. In this bold and original book, Carol J. Adams offers real-life advice that vegetarians can use to defuse any situation where their dietary choices may be under attack and suggests viewing meat eaters as blocked vegetarians. Always insightful, this practical guide is full of self-tests, strategies, meditations on vegetarianism, and tips for dining out and entertaining at home when meat eaters are on the invite list.

Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World
- Bob Torres & Jenna Torres

Curious about veganism? Want to be a vegan? Already a vegan? Just wondering how to be vegan without going insane? In this informative and practical guide on veganism, team Torres helps you love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive lists of resources that no vegan should live without, this book is key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly non-vegan world. Witty, opinionated, and eminently useful.

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero

A collection of over 250 delectable recipes from America' s best selling vegan chefs Isa Moskowitz and Terry Romero (check out their cooking show Post Punk Kitchen). Also included are menus for all occasions, plus many soy-free, gluten-free, and low-fat recipes. If you're terribly busy and require diner in a pinch, a great deal of the recipes take under 45 minutes to prepare and some take less than 15 minutes.