Best Horse Books

What are your favorite horse books? This is the place to share the best horse books you love!

I absolutely love to read books about ponies or horses. When we have to do research or reading projects at school I always choose horse or pony books!

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West Texas Sunrise Series #1 Stallions at Burnt Rock (Bagdon, Paul) 
Determined to prove she can raise the best ranch horses in the West, strong-minded Lee Morgan agrees to put her prize coal-black stallion, Slick, against ...

A Horse of Her Own 
its about a girl named Jane, who really wants one, but whose parents can't afford it. but when Lancelot, a very difficult and head strong Hanoverain, she ...

Horsefeathers 
Horsefeathers is a series by Dandi Daley Mackall. I have the whole series and I think it is a very good Christian book and series, one of my favorite series....

Horse Angel-Fighting Chance 
Fighting Chance is a book by Angela Dorsey among her collection of books called Horse Angel. It is one of my favorite horse books and a very exciting read....

Canterwood Crest Series 
I just read the first book in the new Canterwood Crest series from Jessica Burkhart. The title is Take the Reins.

The book is so good and it's like ...

Willow King 
Willow King (by Chris Platt) is one of my favorite horse books! A description provided by the library is below.

"Thirteen-year-old Katie, who is herself ...

Shadow Horse 
Thirteen-year-old Jasmine Schuler must prove her innocence after attacking a wealthy man she accused to be the murderer of her horse, thus her only option ...

A Good Horse Is Never A Bad Color 
Mark Rashid uses heart-warming and humorous stories to share his techniques of teaching horses by understanding their view of the world. His tales deal ...

Chicken Soup for the Horse Lovers Soul 
This book has little chapters in it about people who are horse crazy just like us, but it is sad but it tells the truth of what has happened in the past ...

Ice Horse Adventures 
This series is new with only one book out so far and the second coming out in April 2009. Five young girls venture into Iceland 800 years back with Emily ...

Riding school Rivals 
its about these 2 girls that have to share a horse that they are taking riding lessons on. You have to read the book.

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Fire Pony 
It is the best book I have read! It may seam like that it is a bad book but is totally the best.

Click here to read more reviews of Fire Pony and ...

Blitz 
This book was one of the greatest books I have ever read about horses!

A new born Foal is living a happy life with his caring owner,his mother, and ...

The Secret Horse 
This is a book I have read not a movie!I got so into the book one night that I read half of it the same day!

This book is about a girl named Nickie ...

Totally Horse Mad series 
Horse Mad series is about a girl called Ashley, she loves horses but unfortunately does not own one until she moves to the country and finds an abandoned ...

The Man Who Listens to Horses Monty Roberts 
He invented join up!! When he was 4 he won champion gold in the Junoir!! He grew up on a competition grounds and during World War 2!! Read this autobiography ...

Mustang in the Mist (Animal Ark) 
It is an Animal Ark book. Mandy and James meet this horse named Cougar. A music video is going to be filmed on the ranch Cougar lives on but suddenly cougar ...

Chosen by a horse 
Its about a Broken Horse, who fixed a broken heart.
Susan thought she was rescuing an abused, abandoned horse, but the horse ended up rescuing her......

A Pony in Trouble  
Its a very good book lol!

Its about a girl named Pam and Her friends called Lulu and Anna! They find a poster about a horse show and after Pan looked ...

My Secret Unicorn (series) 
it is about a girl who's dreams come true!
she finally gets a pony but there is something special about that pony.....its really a unicorn in disguise!...

Black Gold 
Marguerite Henry has done it again! a great book about a legendary race horse who has been forgotten. i so want to give away the ending. OOH i cant ...

Chesnut Hill; the new class 
This is the first of the Chestnut Hill series. It is by Lauren Brooke( the author of the Heartland series).

It is about this girl that goes to a boarding ...

Phantom Stallion 'wild horse island' 
Well wild horse island is about a girl named Darbey. She goes to Hawaii & has to save a mustang filly! But she meets her grandfather.

Sandy Lane Stables 
It's about some kids who are at a stables,and they get up to lots of things together, and plenty of adventures!!

Mustang Mountain Series 
Its about a girl's ranch in alberta and the adventures with her friends up there. It is a very exciting series that have 10 books!

High Hurdles 
High Hurdles: great horse book series!

It is a series of ten books by Luaraine Snelling. It tells about a girl named DJ. She works at a stable and ...

I Am The Great Horse 
I Am The Great Horse - a great horse book!

It is a wonderful story about King Alexander, but this story is through the eyes of his horse Bucephalas....

Pony Camp Diaries 
Pony Camp Diaries Books

These books are really cool!!!!!!!!!!!! A bit simple maybe, but still great. Written in diary form, each book focuses on ...

Heartland Series 
Well, Amy, Lou and their grandfather Jack live on a farm. Amy's mom, Marion Fleming, owns a farm were rescued, abandoned and neglected horses go. But ...

Girls and their Horses ( by American Girl) 
This is a great book! It gives you an inside look on what it's really like to work with horses. You learn about all the special rewards that come from ...

Misty of Chincoteague 
This is a very famous book, and one of the great horse book classics!

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band ...

Megan and Mischief 
I love this book a lot. It's about a girl who goes to pony camp and asks for a non-plodder pony, since at her riding school she always gets the plodders....

Winnie the Horse Gentler 
This series by Dandi Daley Mackall is about a girl who has lost her mother and wants to become a famous horse gentler.

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King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry 
This is an amazing story written by the same author who wrote the Misty of Chincoteague books. It is a beautiful and magical tale of Agba, a servant boy ...

Golden Filly series  
A girl becomes a jockey and rides her horse Spitfire. Her dad has cancer so it's really hard for her to focus on everything. In the book it talks about ...

A Horse Called Trouble 
Amy has just won a prestigious riding prize- lessons at an exclusive academy that trains top equestrians! And it's there she meets some of the most headstrong ...

Battlecry Forever! By Joanna Campbell 
Fifteen-year-old Leslie can have any horse she wants; her parents own stables where they train retired Thoroughbred racers to become pleasure horses. But ...

Thoroughbred Series 
It's all about racing and 3 day eventing. If you don't have a good book to read, read the THOROUGHBRED SERIES!!

Add a Horse Called Wonder (Thoroughbred ...

The Heartland Series 
Heartland is where Amy, Lou and their grandfather live. Oh and i can't forget Ty the Stablehand (And becomes Amy boyfriend in one of the later ones:)) Then ...

Riding Freedom 
This book is AWESOME! It's about Charlotte Parkhurst and her journey that leads to being the first woman to vote! It's by Pam Munoz Ryan, and it takes ...

The Black Stallion series 
This series is about the power of friendship and hard work, and how it pays off. Most of the stories are about racing.

Add The Black Stallion Legend ...

Sundancer 
Sundancer an excellent horse book

Sundancer is an awesome book! Unlike all horse books it also has a story to it and it's name is Bird. At some points ...

Phantom Stallion 
These are a really great series of books that everyone should read.

Add The Wild One (Phantom Stallion #1) to your wish list!

Saddle Club 
This is a great series about three girls, Lisa, Carole, and Stevie. It is by Bonnie Bryant.

Add Horse Crazy (Saddle Club(R)) to your Amazon wish list!...

Pony Club Secrets 
This series is by Stacy Gregg and is about a girl called Issie, Isadora, and her pony, Blaze. I really like it!

Add Mystic and the Midnight Ride (Pony ...

Pony Pals 
I've read a bunch of books in the Pony Pals series of books by Jeanne Betancourt. The main characters are Lulu, whose father is often off traipsing the ...

Black Beauty 
Add Black Beauty to Your Wish List

Black Beauty is the classic book for horse lovers. It tells the story of a horse who goes through many difficulties ...

Katie Prices perfect ponies. 
Katie prices perfect ponies are the best books ever! I bought all of them because I love them so much!

They are all about a group of girls at a riding ...

Fire Horse 
Firehorse is about this girl back then and she meets a wounded fire horse. While she cures for the injured horse, she dreams to be a vet one day. But it'...

Blind Beauty 
Tessa is a 12 year old girl and has been expelled from every school. Her mum and dad split up and has a new step dad that's a rich and famous race horse ...

War Horse 
War Horse is about a horse named Joey that is taken away from his owner, Albert who loves him to death. Joey is taken to war and he tells all about the ...

Foal in the Fog (Animal Ark Hauntings #5) 
There is a foal who has died and is a ghost and Abby thinks that it has come back to haunt her because she killed it...you'll have to read the book to ...

Fly-By-Night 
Ruth Hollis, an 11 year old horse mad girl, is fed up living with a non-horsey family. Saving up enough money, she buys the characteristic - but unsuitable ...

The Horse and His Boy 
This book is one of seven in C. S. Lewis's famous, 'The Chronicles of Narnia'. It is about a young boy, Shasta, who lives with a fisherman in Calormene ...

No Small Thing 
This book is about 3 kids who are very poor and find an ad in the paper for a "Free Pony". Their decison will change everything.

Pony on the Porch 
Mandy Hope has known these people for a very long time. They have a pony called Prince, but when they move they sell Prince to a girl called Susan who ...

Paint the Wind! 
This book is about a girl's life with her over protective grandmother, who hates her mother, and says she took her son away from her. She does not allow ...

Diablo - My Dream Horse 
There is this girl named Ricki. And her dad is constantly nagging her to improve her grades in school, but Ricki is having a hard time concentrating in ...

A summer of horses 
This book is about a girl Named Faith she is spending the whole summer at Beth Holbein's horse farm. Faith and her sister learn to ride. Faith disovers ...

Jill Has Two Ponies 
This book is really cool. Jill buys a pony because she is determined to show him that she won't be beaten by any horse and together the 2 become good friends....

The Good Master 
It's not really about horses, but there a lot of them in it. By Kate Seredy. 196 pages.

The Pony-Mad Princess 
Princess Ellie is pony mad! She's fed up with being a princess she'd much rather be riding one of her four gorgeous ponies!

The Most Beautiful Horse In The World 
This book is a great book for horse lovers.

This book is wonderful for a person that can't have a horse, but wants 1 so bad.

Here is what is is about....

Short Stirrups Series  Not rated yet
i'm not done reading it yet but its pretty good so far !

The Forgotten Filly  Not rated yet
the forgotten filly is about a girl named joel and her horse dancer. dancer is pregnant and the mare dies form her baby.Joel hates her new foal. But ...

Seabiscuit: An American Legend  Not rated yet
In 1938, a year of monumental turmoil, the number one newsmaker wasn't Franklin Roosevelt or Adolf Hitler.

It wasn't even a person.

It was an undersized,...

Pounding Hooves  Not rated yet
by: Dorothy Grunbock Johnston

Lori is a young artist who also loves horses. Storm is a wild, yet beautiful Arabian that she has fallen in love with....

A Horse Named Cinnamon  Not rated yet
by: Jeanne Hoved

Cassie is a young girl who loves horses, but due to a riding accident, her dad is left in a cast and she is left without a riding horse....

A Wind in Cairo  Not rated yet
by: Judith Tarr

Hasan is the spoiled son of an emir in ancient Egypt. He ends up insulting a very powerful magus and ends up being turned magically ...

The Miranda and Starlight Series  Not rated yet
Miranda Stevens, a 10 year girl living in Montana with her grandparents, loves horses more than anything. When she accepts a dare from another classmate,...

Animal Ark 2 Pony on the Porch (Ben M. Baglio)  Not rated yet
When Mandy meets stuck-up Susan Collins she quickly decides that the only good thing about her is her pony Prince. But then Mandy realizes that Susan's ...

Winter Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty  Not rated yet
The main character,Ginny has finally gotten a pony named Mokey. With her best friend Pam, and under careful supervision of the caretaker Michael,they ...

Son of the Wind  Not rated yet
It is a great book!!! i dont really think it is a movie...yet.

The Bella Sara Series  Not rated yet
There are 15 books so far, I think. They're a great read about horses from the Bella Sara Card series by Felicity Brown.

Magic Pony  Not rated yet
It is about a girl called Natty and she loves ponies and one day she saw a pony poster in a shop in the village and have pretends with it, the pony in ...

Hoofbeat Series  Not rated yet
The hoofbeat series is a must read,it is about a girl that loves this mare that's in foal, she cant wait for the foal to come, but a few days before the ...

Pony lovers handbook  Not rated yet
the pony lovers hand book is soooooooooooooo cool i have read it soo many times but can still read it again it has stickers ,flick books and rossettes ...

Blaze and the Dark Rider  Not rated yet
blaze and the dark rider is so hard to put down and i can not go to sleep after reading it!!!!!!!
isadora brown has loads of adventures with blaze her ...

Siena Summer  Not rated yet

It's summer in Siena, Itally. The fiery horse Tempesta has been written off by his owners. Angela is determined to save him, convinced that if he races ...

Wild Magic  Not rated yet
Wild Magic is about Daine. She can talk to animals. She owns a horse named Cloud who guides her through hair-raising adventures. Its a Teen Fantasy! Its ...

Dancer  Not rated yet
A young teenager named Hilary, also known as Mousy, is the only one who is able to ride Dancer. Dancer and Mousy share a special bond and need each other ...

PonyTalk  Not rated yet
In pony talk they tell you everything you need to know about horses and riding. It tells you how to do lead changes leg yielding and stuff like that, it ...

Five True Horse Stories  Not rated yet
here are some wonderful stories about REAL horses.

JUSTIN MORGAN-the biggest little horse of all.

PACING WHITE MUSTANG-the horse no one could tame....

Pony Days Series by Peter Clover  Not rated yet
When a stray dog turns up in little applewood, Emma(girl) and sheltie(her horse)want him to stay. One day he gets scared and runs away. Emma can not rest ...

Blue Moon  Not rated yet
Written by Marilyn Halvorson

Blue Moon is about a teenage girl named Bobbie Jo who wants to buy a quarter horse colt to train to become a champion ...

Horse Dictionary  Not rated yet
This book is more like an informational book. It has a bunch of different breeds of horses and gives you a brief fact about them. It's a pretty good book ...

The Island Stallion Series  Not rated yet
It's a sub-series to the Black Stallion (also a good one). A boy, steve and his friend go to an island no one cares about to camp and find a whole undiscovered ...

PonyClub Books  Not rated yet
PONY books come in the PONY packages. they have lots of really cool books like: Mystic Tide, Frantic Flight, Condor Mountain, Hero of the Night, Diablo ...

Black Stallion   Not rated yet
It about a black horse who begin wild than a little boy begin his friend that all i'm say about the book you will have to read the book and find out what ...

The Great Pony Hassle  Not rated yet
This book is about 2 sets of twins.The first set of twins are Toni and Staci, and the others are Paisly and Stirling. Staci and Toni's mom is married to ...

Three Strides Before The Wire  Not rated yet
Now in paperback, reporter Mitchell introduces her readers to the mysterious, mercurial world of horse racing in a book that's as fast-paced and colorful ...

The Horse Whisperer  Not rated yet
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family ...

A horse for X.Y.Z.  Not rated yet
it's about this girl named Solveig and a horse named Snake Dancer. Quitley she sneacks off the bus and waited until the bus leaves than she jumps onto ...

Vicki and the black horse  Not rated yet
It's about this girl name Vicki ad her black toroughbred gelding named Pat. Vicki sold the pony Pat's only friend.if Vicki can not get the pony back Pat ...

Scarlett  Not rated yet
It is about a girl called Scarlett, who is really naughty. Her mum sends her to Ireland to live with her Dad. There she meets this mysterious boy who rides ...

The Silver Brumby  Not rated yet
Well a stallion called thowra is born he is named for the wind. (Because he waz born in a wild storm wilder than ever.) He waz a creamy with a silver mane,...

BARBARO: The horse that won the heart of a nation  Not rated yet
A story of Barbaro's life, and a good one too!

Note from Sydney: Is this the one you are talking about? I couldn't find one on Amazon with the title ...

UNICORN CHRONICLES  Not rated yet
Amazing series! Everyone should read it! It is about a girl named Cara who find a secret world of unicorn and her grandmother is secretly a unicorn!

BOOK ...

Shelty Set  Not rated yet
It's about a girl called Emma and she has a pony called shelty and they do all adventures.

Stable Mates  Not rated yet
It is about a girl that wins her first horse in a contest and then this boy wants her horse named Blizzard and he steals it and she tries to find her!

The Flicka Series  Not rated yet
The Flicka series are 3 of the best horse stories. The first book is called "My Friend Flicka" and it tells the story of how Ken McLaughlin found Flicka ...

Chase  Not rated yet
This is the book i am currently reading. It has a horse on the cover and the back cover says it has something to do with horses and it's really good so ...

Pony Tails (series) By Bonnie Bryant (she wrote the saddleclub)  Not rated yet
Well it's like the saddle club but for the younger ages. It is set at pine hollow stables and it's about girls becoming friends and the horses live at ...

Me and My Pony  Not rated yet
Me and My Pony tells you all about horse care and riding. At the back there is a section called notes where you can draw pictures of your pony, keep a ...

Dear Readers and Riders  Not rated yet
This book was written by Marguerite Henry, the person who wrote Misty. In this book, Mrs. Henry answers questions from her most famous books and other ...

Sultan the Patient  Not rated yet
There is a horse called Sultan and he is really headstrong. Then these twins are riding him and he gets ill. The girl who owns the horse is in a boarding ...

The Blue Roan Child  Not rated yet
A young stable girl meets Arwin a wild Arva horse that was taken to the king`s stable with her two colts. Sierra the stable girl sets out with Arwin after ...

Golden Filly # 10 The Winner's Circle  Not rated yet
You guys absolutely have to read this book! It is about Tricia called Trish, and someone is harassing her. He sends her threatening phone calls and leaves ...

Pony Sitters 'pony pals'  Not rated yet
Well it's about three girls Pam Lulu and Anna and they have to help Mimi look after her pony.

My Guy Barbaro  Not rated yet
It's ALL about Barbaro, the best racehorse I have experienced (other than Big Brown and Eight Belles but Barbaro's better)

It's talking about how Edgar ...

Breeze of Exmoor  Not rated yet
I wrote this story (as I'm a young author), And I bet you would like it.

It's about a young colt growing up. It hasn't been published yet but when ...

The Heavenly Horse From The Outermost West  Not rated yet
The appaloosa breed is dying, there is only one true appaloosa left. She lost her spots as she grew up, so no one, not even herself, knows her true colour,...

Hollywell Stables   Not rated yet
It's a series about two sisters and a brother...Kate, Ross, and Mel. With their step mom they set up a sanctury and then go on cases and missions to find ...

For Sale or Swap  Not rated yet
A girl is getting tired of her pony Blue, as much as she adores him, he isn't as fancy as her friends horses. So in a horse magazine she finds an add that ...