~Horse Book Recommentdations~

I saw the post about a book recommendation and I decided to start a thread you can post the horse books that you like the most.. there is two categories.. 1. Horse Facts 2. Horse Stories..

I am wanting to start reading more but I have found that I read alot more and get alot more out of a book about horses so can yall give me some good titles then I will chose one or all to read. Thanks!!!

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There was a book at the library in germany that I checked out about once a month, it was the history of thourobred horse racing, it was a fact book that was hundreds of pages thick and told the stories and stats of just about every horse to race in america. I wish I knew the name of that book, it got me through 3 years of very limited supply of reading materials!

I read a book called a cowboys tears that was KIND OF horse related that was really, really good...

I did not like the horse whisperer...

How do you want responses? I should have asked that first, lists of books and authors or commentarys??? Sorry, I love to read....

Nonfiction
The USPC Manual Of Horsemanship (all 3)
The K.I.S.S. Guide To Caring For Your Horse
The Encyclopedia Of Horses And Ponies

Fiction
Riding Lessons - Sara Gruen
Flying Changes - Sara Gruen

Horse books......hmmm?
Lol just kidding I want to read more of them too, the ones I've read though:
*Kind of the Wind
*Black beauty
*The Horse Whisperer(i actually never finished this one...the movie ruined it and I couldnt read it anymore)
*The Phantom Stallion books, only one through 4 I think though becuase I couldnt find the fifth one (i think there are like 30 something volumes!)
*Heartland I havent read many of those either...
*The little white horse...its kind of a horse book, its more about the people but the horses play a pretty important role, its really a childrens book though
...i think that's my whole list, I read alot but usually fantasy OH that reminds me I read one about unicorns a really long time ago...but I don't remember the name....
Hope I helped!

Horseykisses - finish the book. The ending is very different from the movie.

I want books you have read or want to read and why.. lol.. I have never read any of those books except the KISS book. That was the very,very first horse book I read and actually that was the very first big book I read all the way through!lol!

Blue ribbon summer (teeneybopper romance - but it was good)
Saddle a thunderbolt
Thunderhead
Green grass of wyoming
My friend flicka
All of the fury of broken wheels
....I don't know if there are any out there?

Fiction:
Anything by Margeurite Henry!
Black Beauty. If you don't read that book you're being deprvied of the best horse literature ever!
The Black Stallion is also good... I don't think many of the others are that good though.
Smoky the Cowhorse! It's like a western Black Beauty... really good

Nonfiction:
Wild Horses I Have Known by Hope Ryden
Spirit of the Horse. Really pretty horses of many breeds. Bob Langrish does the photography, though :/ I guess he's okay

Im into all the what I call proper book

Backing and breaking
The equine digestive system
The horses back
No hoof no horse