Virtual Book Showcase

Please explore books by ‘Rethinking Fables’ Project Participants. Some books include exclusive discount codes for the final conference — don’t miss out. Please click to find out. 

Autobiographie d'un poulpe: et autres récits d'anticipation (Éditions Actes Sud, 2021)

Vinciane Despret

Living as a Bird (Polity, 2021)

Vinciane Despret

What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)

Vinciane Despret (translated by Brett Buchanan)

Love in a Time of Slaughters Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction (Penn State University Press, 2019)

Susan McHugh

Animal Satire (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, 2023)

Robert McKay and Susan McHugh (editors)

The Good-Hearted Gardeners (Spinifex 2023)

Suniti Namjoshi

Aesop the Fox (Spinifex, 2018)

Suniti Namjoshi

Suki (Spinifex, 2013)

Suniti Namjoshi

Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) -- Get 20% off with this code: PALAUT

Kaori Nagai

Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories, published by Penn State University Press (2023; Paperback 2025). 30% off using code NR25

Kaori Nagai (editor)

Cosmopolitan Animals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) -- Get 20% off with code: PALAUT

edited by Kaori Nagai, Karen Jones, Donna Landry, Monica Mattfeld, Caroline Rooney, and Charlotte Sleigh. Preface by Donna Haraway

Creature (2025), published by Jacar Press

Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor (2018), published by Cambridge University Press

Chris Danta

Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes: People and Their Animals in Early Modern England (Cornell University Press, 2018)

Erica Fudge

skindancing

Susan Richardson

Where the Seals Sing

Susan Richardson

Words the Turtle Taught Me

Susan Richardson

Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World before Time -- 30% off with code UCPNEW

Boria Sax

Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds - 20% off with AVIAN21

Boria Sax

Disappearance (Shearsman, 2020)

Lesley Harrison

Kitchen Music (UK edition - Carcanet, 2023; US edition - New Directions, 2023)

by Lesley Harrison

Nurturing Alternative Futures: Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World

Muhammad Kavesh and Natasha Fijn (editors)

Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan

Muhammad Kavesh

Animals on Television: The Cultural Making of the Non-Human (2017), Palgrave Macmillan

Brett Mills

Nichtmenschliche Ästhetik / Non-human aesthetics (2024), Cultural Animal Studies (J.B. Metzler)

Jessica Ullrich (editor)

Tiere erzählen (Storytelling animals), Tierstudien 2019

Jessica Ullrich and Alexandra Boehm (editors)

Tiergeschichten (Animal stories), Tierstudien 2019

Jessica Ullrich and Alexandra Böhm (editors)

J. G. Ballard's "Crash" (2025), Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon

Paul March-Russell

No Season but the Summer (Scribe, 2024)

Matilda Leyser

Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada (Palgrave Macmillan 2023) ---- Get 20% off with code 8ClQSFzpKofo3k (Valid May 20– Jun 17, 2025)

Candice Allmark-Kent

Kairotic Inspiration: Imagining the Future in the Sixth Extinction (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Sarah Allen

Slant Light (Liverpool University Press, 2016) - a discount available from the linked site

Sarah Westcott

Bloom (Liverpool University Press, 2021) - a discount available from the linked site

Sarah Westcott