Horses books
Horses books to start from. Open one to see books like it, or tell BookSense what you loved for four picks made for you.
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Black Beauty
Anna SewellA horse narrates his life and mistreatments, and the book became a foundational text in animal-welfare writing for children.
National Velvet
Enid BagnoldA girl's ambition to ride a horse in a major race, and the bond with her horse, set the template for the girl-and-horse story.
Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite HenryA children's story about wild ponies on an island and a child's efforts to own one; long popular in American schools.
Seabiscuit
Laura HillenbrandNonfiction history of a Depression-era racehorse, his owner, trainer and jockey, widely read beyond horse readers.
The Silver Brumby
Elyne MitchellStories of a wild Australian horse in the high country, an important entry in Australian animal fiction.
Chosen and described with AI from our notes on the genre.
More horses books
- The Man Who Listens to Horses
The Man Who Listens to HorsesMonty Roberts - Equus
EquusPeter Shaffer - The metaphysics of Aristotle
The metaphysics of AristotleAristotle1479 - [Relief of Josiah George Jennings.]
[Relief of Josiah George Jennings.]United States Congress Senate Committee on Patents1858 - The history of the Omega psi phi fraternity
The history of the Omega psi phi fraternityHerman Dreer1940 - The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century
The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth centuryFrancis Parkman1867 - Markham's master-piece
Markham's master-pieceGervase Markham1615 - Endurance RidingEndurance RidingAnn Hyland1975
- Eyewitness
EyewitnessDK Publishing2000 - At the Back of the North Wind
At the Back of the North WindGeorge MacDonald1871 - Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Novel
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron NovelKathleen Duey2002 - Out of the Darkness
Out of the DarknessLauren Brooke2002