Peter Singer books in order
Australian moral philosopher
- Born
- 1946
- Country
- Australia
- Books
- 40
Peter Singer has published 2 novels, 1 novella, 17 non-fiction books, 1 children's book and 19 other books, beginning with Animal Liberation (1975). The best-known is Marx (1980). The latest is 10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save (2019).
Updated September 2026
Where to start with Peter Singer
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Marx
Peter Singer's most-read book.
Newest
10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save
Published 2019.
Standalone novels in order
Practical Ethics (1979)
The Life You Can Save (2009)
Novellas in order
The Lives of Animals (1999), with J. M. Coetzee
Non-fiction in order
Animal Liberation (1975)
Marx (1980)
The Expanding Circle (1981)
Hegel (1983)
Henry Cort, the Great Finer (1983)
Animal Rights and Human Obligations (1989)
How Are We to Live? (1993)
A Darwinian Left (1999)
The Animal Liberation Movement (2000)
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
Pushing Time Away (2003)
The President of Good & Evil (2004)
The Way We Eat (2006)
The Ethics of What We Eat (2007)
The Most Good You Can Do (Apr 2015)
Ethics in the Real World (2016)
10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save (2019)
Children's books in order
Eating (2006)
Other books in order
Democracy and Disobedience (1973)
Making Babies (1985)
Should the Baby Live? (1985)
Applied Ethics (1986)
In Defense of Animals (1986)
Ethics (1994)
The Great Ape Project (1994)
Rethinking Life and Death (1995)
Ethics Into Action (2000)
One World (2002)
The Moral of the Story (2005)
Stem Cell Research (2007)
The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics (2008)
Bioethics (2015)
The Ethics of Killing Animals (2015)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (2016)
One World Now (2016)
Utilitarianism (2017)
Why Vegan? (2020)
About Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He wrote the book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues for veganism, and the essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", which argues the moral imperative of donating to help the poor around the world. For most of his career he was a preference utilitarian. He revealed in The Point of View of the Universe (2014), co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, that he had become a hedonistic utilitarian.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Peter Singer FAQ
- How many books has Peter Singer written?
- Peter Singer has published 2 novels, 1 novella, 17 non-fiction books, 1 children's book and 19 other books that we list, as of September 2026.
- What order should I read Peter Singer's books in?
- Publication order is a safe choice; the full list is above. Most readers start with Marx.
- What is Peter Singer's latest book?
- 10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save (2019).
- What is Peter Singer's most famous book?
- Marx (1980) is Peter Singer's most widely read book.
Sources: book lists and dates from Wikidata and Open Library, ratings from Open Library readers. Last updated September 2026.