Books Worth Buying

Stories from the animal liberation underground — direct action, the activist life on the run, and reflections on a movement built on risk and conviction.

The story of Justin Barker, a teenager who began filming fox hunts and became a central figure in the UK hunt sabotage movement — and the consequences that followed.

A history of the Hunt Saboteurs Association — decades of direct action against blood sports in Britain, told by those who were there.

The underground story of the Swedish Animal Liberation Front — one of Europe's most active direct action groups, responsible for dozens of raids and sabotage operations.

A legal analysis of how anti-terror laws, corporate lobbying, and politics have been weaponized to silence animal and environmental activists in the United States.

A collected history of Animal Liberation Front actions, compiled and edited as a record of decades of direct action in defense of animals.

A firsthand account of undercover investigations inside the UK animal agriculture industry — what investigators see, and what it costs them.

Examines the psychological suffering experienced by vegans confronting a world that normalizes animal exploitation — and how to navigate it without burning out.

The infamous 1991 underground text arguing that the struggle for animal liberation is a war — one of the most controversial and debated documents in movement history.

The collected writings of ALF activist Rod Coronado — firsthand accounts of sinking whaling ships, fur farm raids, and years spent in prison for direct action in defense of animals and the Earth.

The true story of the Animal Liberation Front's early days in North America, told by PETA's co-founder — a look at the people who chose direct action and life on the run in defense of animals.

A complete, professionally-bound collection of a low-circulation, photocopied animal liberation zine that ran from 1993 to 1995 — covering direct action, animal rights activism, and the Animal Liberation Front during the era of Operation Bite Back.

A collection of essays from animal protection advocates examining racial equity within the movement — confronting where animal advocacy has fallen short and what it takes to build something more just.

A detailed account of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising and the state's brutal response — the negotiations, the massacre, and the cover-up that followed.

Dismantles twenty-one commonly held myths about mass incarceration and the criminal justice system with clarity and evidence.

Oral histories from political prisoners across North America — activists imprisoned for their beliefs, their organizing, and their resistance.

A sharp breakdown of the euphemisms used to describe policing — unpacking the language that legitimizes police violence and obscures its true nature.

A Black human rights lawyer's personal and political journey from believing in police reform to embracing abolition — and the arguments that changed her mind.

The memoir of the NSA contractor who exposed mass government surveillance — a firsthand account of growing up online, working inside the intelligence community, and the decision to risk everything to reveal it.

The memoir of the Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents exposing US war crimes — and spent seven years in military prison for it.

How states and corporations surveil, infiltrate, and repress social movements — and how activists have pushed back.

How the FBI and corporations labeled animal rights and environmental activists as the number one domestic terrorism threat — and what that means for all dissent.

An investigation into how the FBI manufactures domestic terrorism cases through sting operations — targeting vulnerable, mentally ill, and impoverished people.

A former FBI agent exposes the bureau's long history of targeting dissidents, social movements, and marginalized communities — from COINTELPRO to the present.

The definitive biography of Harriet Tubman — her escape from slavery, her years as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and her later work as a spy and activist.

A memoir and political history of the Black Panther Party by death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal — who joined the Party as a teenager in Philadelphia.

The legal and political story of the FBI's murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton in 1969, written by one of the attorneys who spent years pursuing justice.

The screenplay of the landmark 1969 trial of activists charged with conspiracy following protests at the Democratic National Convention.

King's account of the 1963 Birmingham campaign — the marches, the jail, the hoses — and the moral urgency that made waiting for justice unconscionable.

A groundbreaking analysis of how race, class, and gender intersect — tracing the history of American feminism and labor movements and what they've too often ignored.

A retelling of American history from the perspective of Indigenous peoples — centering colonialism, genocide, and the centuries of resistance that followed.

The definitive oral history of ACT UP New York — the direct action AIDS activist group whose militant tactics changed public health policy and saved countless lives.

The history of the MOVE organization told from the inside — five decades of revolutionary struggle in Philadelphia, from police sieges to the 1985 bombing, by a member born in a prison cell.

Four speeches by Malcolm X — including his most incisive critiques of white supremacy and his calls for Black self-determination and solidarity.

A memoir of Justus Rosenberg's four years working in the French Resistance during World War II — smuggling people to safety and surviving against impossible odds.

An anarchist examination of how communities can address harm, violence, and accountability without relying on police, prisons, or the state.

The definitive dystopian novel — a totalitarian state where truth is manufactured, history is rewritten, dissent is erased, and Big Brother watches everyone.

A satirical fable in which farm animals overthrow their human masters, only to watch power corrupt and hierarchy restore itself under new management.

Kropotkin's classic argument that cooperation — not competition — is the driving force of evolution and human social development, challenging Social Darwinism at its roots.

A guide to creative work as a discipline — showing up consistently, shipping ideas, and building a body of work regardless of whether the outcome is certain.

A Christian case for veganism rooted in scripture, theology, and the ethic of nonviolence — arguing that compassion for animals is inseparable from faith.

An examination of the biblical passages commonly used to justify eating animals — and a vegan reading of Christian scripture that challenges those interpretations.