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Hi,

I have recently read couple horsey books that I loved - War Horse, The Horse Whisperer and The Horse Dancer.

Has anyone else read a book that you could recommend for me to read next?

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The Sara gruen books are good, I liked jolly cooper riders too. Away to browse my kindle...
Also wild mustang man
Thoroughbreds and trailer trash
Chosen by a horse
When Sophie met darcy day
The Fiona walker books

Nearly all Hho recommendations
 
I just bought and read The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John (who wrote the White Giraffe series). It was a good read, if I was being picky it wasn't brilliantly written in my opinion and was quite predictable but still a good horsey book!
 
Mary King's Autobiography (made me not feel so crap about lame horse, she ahs had tonnes!)

Skimming through the old Kindle:

The Dressage Chronicles, Karen McGoldrick

Death By Dressage Carolyn Banks (though I haven't read it yet :) )
 
Am going to follow this thread as looking for a good fiction horse book.

Non fiction I can fully reccomend Pippa Funnell, William Fox- Pitt and Mary King's autobiographies.

Have also read Paul Nicholls autobiography but preffered the eventers ones as they were obv more emotionally attached to the horses & they were described in more depth/ details.
 
The Horse Boy is good - not a novel but a fascinating, well-written true story.

You might also enjoy my new novel, There Must Be Horses, about an emotionally scarred foster child and an equally damaged horse. It's getting good reviews on Amazon.

If you like non-fiction, try anything by Mark Rashid. He writes in a highly readable anecdotal style.
 
Maybe a little controversial but I have a Monty Roberts book I like about the horses who have affected him.
Got it as a teen from my gran and really enjoyed reading not knowing anything about him, read again recently.

None horsey but same sort of style as horse whisperer, my sisters keeper (or anything by Jodie picoult really), lovely bones.
Aside from that I'm a crime novel reader. And anything by David Attenborough :D
 
I love this sort of post......... Favourite books (not in order of preference, except for Flambards)
1. Flambards - KM Peyton (4 books in total, all wonderful)
2. Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man - S Sasson - (can you beleive that this was my set book for O level Eng Lit , back in 1975.......!)
3. Classic Lives - Caroline Silver
4. Horse Heaven - Jane Smiley
5. All pony books of the 1960's - late 1970's (Pullein Thompson sisters, Ruby Fergusson, Monica Edwards.
6, Cobblers Dream and Follyfoot - Monica Dickens
7. Eventers Triology - Caroline Ackrill
8. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
9. Moorland Mousie - Golden Gorse
10. Tsysheffnys (sp) Ride
11. Anything by Lucinda Prior Palmer
12. Anything by Sheila Wilcox
13. Non fiction by Pat Smythe
14. Racing biogs - Martin Pipe, Graham Bradley, Charlie Brooks, Jimmy Frost (not so keen on Paul Carberry, Richard Dunwoody, Richard Johnson, Paul Nicholls) Timmy Murphy was very soul searching.
15. Racing journalist ......(can't remember his name, but he did a great year in the life of the Dunlop family and the Fred Winter stable, and then did a book on his love hate relationship with a horse he owned......)
16. Sea Biscuit
17. Not read yet (has anyone else - but have it on my bedside table) Lean on Pete
And I could go on, but I am boring you all rigid.....
Have to say did not rate War Horse as a book or a film (but not having a go at Morporgo - just struggle with the sentimentality of the whole genre - Joey was special, but hardly likely to be immortal..........And I had to harden to myself to the film as did not want to send 90 mins in tears - the Belstone Fox had me in bits many years previously, not anxious to repeat the experience! Re War Horse, the day before I went to see it has watched Bird Song.....(having read it too) scale of human suffering / scale of equine suffering - all pretty awful........
Anyway some food / content for thought!
 
The Fox in the Cupboard by Jane Shilling - her true story of learning to ride in later life in order to hunt.

Jumbo to Jockey by Dominic Prince - his hilarious, well informed account of dieting to enable him to race ride.
 
Susan Richards - Saddle & Chosen by a horse
Fiona Walker: love Hunt & Kiss and Tell
Can't remember the author - One dollar horse
Jilly Cooper, Riders, Polo or Jump
Jo Carniege - Horse play

Anything by Mark Rashid :-)
 
The Horse Whisperer. Don't know if it's already being said, couldn't be bothered reading through all the answers :o
But yeah, tissues at the ready with this. And watch the film AFTER so it doesn't spoil the book! :p
 
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