One of the most frequent questions we get is "what should I read?" Ten or fifteen years ago, you had to dig a little to find more than a few good works on animals and Christian theology. But today, you can build a decent little library. Here are a few of our absolute favorites (and yes, we wrote some of them).

Bibliography

Carol J. Adams, Prayers for Animals
Richard Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology
Charles Camosy, For Love of Animals: Christian Ethics, Consistent Action
David Clough, On Animals: Volume I - Systematic Theology
David Clough and Celia Deane-Drummond, eds. Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (not a Christian book, but a must-read)
Ellen Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture
Michael Gilmour, Eden's Other Residents
Amy Hatkoff, The Inner World of Farmed Animals: Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capacities
Laura Hobgood-Oster, The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity’s Compassion for Animals
Sarah Withrow King, Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not): An Evangelical Animal Liberation Theology
Sarah Withrow King, Vegangelical: How Caring for Animals Can Shape Your Faith
Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology
Andrew Linzey and Tom Regan, Animals & Christianity: A Book of Readings
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Daniel Miller, Animal Ethics and Theology
Norman Phelps, Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible
Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Tripp York and Andy Alexis-Baker, eds. A Faith Embracing All Creatures: Addressing Commonly Asked Questions about Christian Care for Animals

For Children

Dan Bodenstein, Steven the Vegan
James Patterson, Word of Mouse
C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, especially The Magician's Nephew
Ruby Roth, That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things
Ruby Roth, V Is for Vegan: The ABCs of Being Kind