9 best-selling animals books like Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

Cover of Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

By: Lara Prior-Palmer

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woma…

"Sport is war in disguise."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse lovers have excessive feeling."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse smell is the same the world over"

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Maybe home is just all that we leave behind."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

If you liked the animals plot in Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

1. The Mare

By: Mary Gaitskill

3.67

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

The story of a Dominican girl, the white woman who introduces her to riding, and the horse who chan… read more

Similar categories in Mary Gaitskill's The Mare book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • horses
  • animals
  • audiobook
"They say dogs are man’s best friend,"

-Mary Gaitskill, The Mare

"Her mouth smiled, smiled hard, but her eyes did not smile, ever. Her eyes watched and looked for something they knew they’d never find."

-Mary Gaitskill, The Mare

"The singer's voice is thin and fake, but it's pretty, and somewhere in the fakery is the true sadness of smallness and failure and believing in beautiful things that aren't real because that's the on…"

-Mary Gaitskill, The Mare

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

2. 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 Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • 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

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3. No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing

By: Sally Donovan

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

'I love you, no matter what.' This book tells the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple who bu… read more

Similar categories in Sally Donovan's No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Waiting Years by John Bester, Fumiko Enchi

4. The Waiting Years

By: John Bester , Fumiko Enchi

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

The beautiful, immature girl whom she took home to her husband was a maid only in name. Tomo's real… read more

Similar categories in John Bester's The Waiting Years book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

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5. Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse

By: Robin Hutton

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Amid an inferno of explosives on a deadly minefield in the Korean War, a four-legged Marine proved … read more

Similar categories in Robin Hutton's Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • horses
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • animals

6. The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen

By: Buck Brannaman

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

Nearly every week of the year, Buck Brannaman is on the road, conducting horsemanship clinics in wh… read more

Similar categories in Buck Brannaman's The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
Cover of Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership by Mark Rashid

7. Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership

By: Mark Rashid

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

In his third book, Horses Never Lie, Mark Rashid breaks new ground with the idea that you don't hav… read more

Similar categories in Mark Rashid's Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • horses
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • audiobook

8. 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 Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

9. The Conjurer's Bird

By: Martin Davies

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Seamlessly spanning two time periods, The Conjurer's Bird is at once the story of the romance betwe… read more

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10. The Night Is Forever (Krewe of Hunters, #11)

By: Heather Graham

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Ghost Rider in the Sky? What happened here, on a historic ranch outside Nashville, during the Civ… read more

Similar categories in Heather Graham's The Night Is Forever (Krewe of Hunters, #11) book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

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

11. 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 Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • 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 Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

12. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

By: Lara Prior-Palmer

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woma… read more

Similar categories in Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • sports
  • audiobook
"Sport is war in disguise."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse lovers have excessive feeling."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse smell is the same the world over"

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Maybe home is just all that we leave behind."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Cover of Barking Up the Right Tree (A Poppy Mystery Tale, #1) by Leigh Russell

13. Barking Up the Right Tree (A Poppy Mystery Tale, #1)

By: Leigh Russell

2.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The launch of a brand new British cozy crime series perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursda… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Russell's Barking Up the Right Tree (A Poppy Mystery Tale, #1) book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • audiobook
Cover of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Crystal Wilkinson

14. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

By: Crystal Wilkinson

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more

Similar categories in Crystal Wilkinson's Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

15. A Trip of One’s Own

By: Kate Wills

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A travel story is the best story of them all ... Travel journalist Kate Wills wasn't expecting t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Wills's A Trip of One’s Own book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Life and Otter Miracles by Hazel Prior

16. Life and Otter Miracles

By: Hazel Prior

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Prior's Life and Otter Miracles book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • animals
Cover of The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West by Will Grant

17. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West

By: Will Grant

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more

Similar categories in Will Grant's The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
Cover of The Principles of Training: Understanding The Relationship Between You and Your Horse, and Why Effective Training Works. by Warwick Schiller

18. The Principles of Training: Understanding The Relationship Between You and Your Horse, and Why Effective Training Works.

By: Warwick Schiller

4.83

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps pri… read more

Similar categories in Warwick Schiller's The Principles of Training: Understanding The Relationship Between You and Your Horse, and Why Effective Training Works. book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • horses
  • nonfiction
Cover of Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones

19. Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By: Jake Jones

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic. A young man has s… read more

Similar categories in Jake Jones's Can You Hear Me? An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney

20. Half Broke

By: Ginger Gaffney

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the start of this remarkable story of recovery, healing, and redemption, Ginger Gaffney answers … read more

Similar categories in Ginger Gaffney's Half Broke book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • horses
  • audiobook
Cover of The Boy With Two Hearts by Hamed Amiri

21. The Boy With Two Hearts

By: Hamed Amiri

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A mother speaks out against the fundamentalist leaders of her country. Me… read more

Similar categories in Hamed Amiri's The Boy With Two Hearts book and Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

  • nonfiction
  • biography

7 Best audiobook books like Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

Transform Your Habits

The Mare

Mary Gaitskill

3.67

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

Horses Never Lie: The Heart of Passive Leadership

Mark Rashid

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Lara Prior-Palmer

3.67

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9 best-selling adult books like Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Listens to Horses

Monty Roberts , Lucy Grealy , Lawrence Scanlan

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls

3.28

Transform Your Habits

The Great Transition

Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

ReShonda Tate

3.94

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