8 best-selling animals books like Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray

Cover of Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray

Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

By: Fred M. Kray

4.21

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. A…

If you liked the animals plot in Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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

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 Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • horses
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • animals
"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

Cover of Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town by Kevin   Flynn, Rebecca Lavoie

2. Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town

By: Kevin Flynn , Rebecca Lavoie

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town. For twenty years D… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Flynn's Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Horse God Built by Lawrence Scanlan

3. The Horse God Built

By: Lawrence Scanlan

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

He was the perfect horse, it was said . . . "the horse God built." Most of us know the legend of Se… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Scanlan's The Horse God Built book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports

4. Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse

By: Dorothy Ours

3.95

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an American heiress. Together, near Liverpool, England… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Ours's Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports

5. Hot Blood: The Money, the Brach Heiress, the Horse Murders

By: Ken Englade

3.81

Format: 336 pages,

HELEN BRANCH LEFT BEHIND A HUGE FORTUNE--AND A MYSTERY THAT WOULD HAUNT THE NATION FOR YEARS TO COM… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Hot Blood: The Money, the Brach Heiress, the Horse Murders book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
  • horses
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff

6. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

By: Nicholas Dawidoff

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, … read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • history

7. 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 Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

8. Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty

By: Ann Hagedorn , None

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jew… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hagedorn's Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

9. Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition

By: Bruce Henderson

4.22

Format: 224 pages, ebook

It began as President Ulysses S. Grant's bid for international glory after the Civil War--America's… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Henderson's Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

10. Man o' War: A Legend Like Lightning

By: Dorothy Ours

4.03

Format: None pages,

read more

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11. Monster

By: Steve Jackson

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

On February 13, 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown's battered, bloodied body was treated by emergency roo… read more

Similar categories in Steve Jackson's Monster book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

Cover of American Black Widow by Gregg Olsen

12. American Black Widow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's American Black Widow book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal by Aphrodite Jones

13. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

Similar categories in Aphrodite Jones's LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley

14. The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At the turn of the twentieth century, American women began to reject Victorian propriety in favor o… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin

15. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
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16. The Warsaw Sisters

By: Amanda Barratt

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

On a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dąbrowska send their father off to … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Barratt's The Warsaw Sisters book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

Cover of Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder by Ken Englade

17. Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder

By: Ken Englade

4.09

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

The She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled,… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Someone Saw Something by Rick Mofina

18. Someone Saw Something

By: Rick Mofina

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

“Mofina expertly weaves together an anguishing story of a family’s trauma with a propulsive, twisty… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mofina's Someone Saw Something book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
Cover of The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel by Mark   Paul

19. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel

By: Mark Paul

4.03

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke th… read more

Similar categories in Mark Paul's The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports
Cover of Love Me To Death: The Chilling True Story of WIlliam “Wild Bill Cody” Neal—The Vicious Denver Lady-Killer by Steve Jackson

20. Love Me To Death: The Chilling True Story of WIlliam “Wild Bill Cody” Neal—The Vicious Denver Lady-Killer

By: Steve Jackson

4.03

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Classic true crime about one of the most monstrous serial killers in American history from the New … read more

Similar categories in Steve Jackson's Love Me To Death: The Chilling True Story of WIlliam “Wild Bill Cody” Neal—The Vicious Denver Lady-Killer book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

Cover of My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

21. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

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

22. 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 Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports
Cover of Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings by Linda   Carroll

23. Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings

By: Linda Carroll

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of the The Eighty-Dollar Champion , the propulsive, inspiring Cinderel… read more

Similar categories in Linda Carroll's Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports
Cover of Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray

24. Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

By: Fred M. Kray

4.21

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

One fateful winter night, a famous racehorse mysteriously broke his leg while alone in his stall. A… read more

Similar categories in Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • history
  • true crime
  • horse racing
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • horses
  • sports
Cover of You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

25. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue by Dean Jobb

26. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more

Similar categories in Dean Jobb's A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him by Simon Cooper

27. Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him

By: Simon Cooper

4.59

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have… read more

Similar categories in Simon Cooper's Frankel: The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • horse racing
  • horses
  • nonfiction

28. A Man Walks Into a Barn: Navigating Fatherhood in the Flawed and Fascinating World of Horses

By: Chad Oldfather

4.08

Format: None pages, ebook

A smart, funny memoir exploring the evolution of a manand his relationship with his daughters as th… read more

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Cover of Buried Too Deep (New Orleans, #3; Romantic Suspense, #30) by Karen      Rose

29. Buried Too Deep (New Orleans, #3; Romantic Suspense, #30)

By: Karen Rose

4.46

Format: 517 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in th… read more

Similar categories in Karen Rose's Buried Too Deep (New Orleans, #3; Romantic Suspense, #30) book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
Cover of Zero Sum (Jonathan Grave, #16) by John Gilstrap

30. Zero Sum (Jonathan Grave, #16)

By: John Gilstrap

4.60

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When a boy under Jonathan Grave’s protection dies of a drug overdose, the black-ops veteran decides… read more

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Cover of Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track by John McEvoy

31. Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track

By: John McEvoy

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Examines several unsolved mysteries of the racing world-- murder...suicide...arson...fraud....Defin… read more

Similar categories in John McEvoy's Great Horse Racing Mysteries: True Tales from the Track book and Fred M. Kray's Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age

  • mystery
  • horses
  • horse racing

12 Best history books like Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age by Fred M. Kray

Transform Your Habits

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 Horse God Built

Lawrence Scanlan

4.71

Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse

Dorothy Ours

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg

Nicholas Dawidoff

3.37

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19 must-read audiobook books like My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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