8 Best horses books like Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal by Sarah Maslin Nir

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Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

By: Sarah Maslin Nir

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Ti…

If you liked the horses plot in Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal by Sarah Maslin Nir , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable true st… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Letts's The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • audiobook
"An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper."

-Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

"Great dressage demands more than skill; it engages a rider's inner wisdom and his ability to communicate with a mount in the silent language of horsemanship."

-Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

"Just as ballroom dancing and pair skating command partners to work together seamlessly, in the sport of dressage, the rider performers an intricate pas de deux with his partner—a twelve-hundred-pound…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

"The stallion’s crest was arched, his nose was perpendicular to the floor, and his hind legs were gathered underneath him, showing off the powerfully developed muscles in his massive hindquarters. His…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

2. The Dressage Chronicles (The Dressage Chronicles, #1)

By: Karen McGoldrick

3.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

You know what happens to all those girls who are just crazy about horses? Once they discover boys, … read more

Similar categories in Karen McGoldrick's The Dressage Chronicles (The Dressage Chronicles, #1) book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • horses
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3. Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (Misty, #2)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

4.04

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

A wild colt rescued by two children is raised by a mare who has lost her own foal. read more

Similar categories in Marguerite Henry's Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (Misty, #2) book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • horses
  • animals

4. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation

By: Elizabeth Letts

3.95

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER November 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Letts's The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

5. 104 Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile

By: Mandy Retzlaff

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; tha… read more

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6. Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On an island off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Amo… read more

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Cover of The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts

7. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Letts's The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

Cover of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas  Day

8. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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9. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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10. All the Horses of Iceland

By: Sarah Tolmie

3.53

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic historical fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tolmie's All the Horses of Iceland book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • animals
"While Eyvind never became a literate man, he saw as he went on that books contained words that could transform men into priests and kings and healers."

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

"That was the way it was with languages, Eyvind had observed once he left home and realized how many there were: some he could see into and some he could not. Listening to them was like looking down i…"

-Sarah Tolmie, All the Horses of Iceland

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11. Pony

By: R.J. Palacio

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A story about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion, and a myst… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Palacio's Pony book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • animals
  • audiobook
"Even if we can’t see it, the sun never stops shining."

-R.J. Palacio, Pony

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12. The Last Animal

By: Ramona Ausubel

3.47

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in … read more

Similar categories in Ramona Ausubel's The Last Animal book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • animals
  • audiobook
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13. Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

By: Robyn Davidson

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and t… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Davidson's Unfinished Woman: A Memoir book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Girls and Their Horses

By: Eliza Jane Brazier

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Girls and Their Horses book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • horses
  • animals
  • audiobook
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15. Tin Camp Road

By: Ellen Airgood

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which … read more

Similar categories in Ellen Airgood's Tin Camp Road book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • audiobook
Cover of Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse by Kim Wickens

16. Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse

By: Kim Wickens

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, … read more

Similar categories in Kim Wickens's Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • audiobook
Cover of Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be by Marissa R. Moss

17. Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

By: Marissa R. Moss

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The full and unbridled inside story of the last twenty years of country music through the lens of M… read more

Similar categories in Marissa R. Moss's Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is a story of how country music has used its gender wars as a cover for its deep imbedded desires to preserve and weaponize that whiteness."

-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

"This isn't just a story of sexism in music. It's a story of America. Of how misogyny and class permeate the most basic of threads. And how power supersedes decency and art in the minds and hearts of …"

-Marissa R. Moss, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

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18. Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

By: Sarah Maslin Nir

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. Unbreakable

By: Richard Askwith

3.91

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe’s youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning th… read more

Similar categories in Richard Askwith's Unbreakable book and Sarah Maslin Nir's Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal

  • history
  • biography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
Cover of The Little Queen: Found Family on the Plain of Crowns by Kevin Hincker

20. The Little Queen: Found Family on the Plain of Crowns

By: Kevin Hincker

4.48

Format: None pages, None

From his mother Anthony inherited a bee hive, and the power to communicate with bees. But after … read more

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Cover of The Dorothy Parker Reader - Enough Rope, Men I'm Not Married To and Sunset Gun - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker

21. The Dorothy Parker Reader - Enough Rope, Men I'm Not Married To and Sunset Gun - Unabridged

By: Dorothy Parker

4.33

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Collected here are three of Dorothy Parker's earliest  two collections of poetry - "Enough Rope" an… read more

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10 Top audiobook books like Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal by Sarah Maslin Nir

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The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

Elizabeth Letts

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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Pony

R.J. Palacio

4.25

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The Last Animal

Ramona Ausubel

3.47

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17 Best audiobook books like Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Robyn Davidson

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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The Drowning

Bryan Brown

3.56

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Anna Funder

4.13

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