I’ve been really enjoying Kate Lattey’s books, and I think most of them are on Kindle Unlimited.
Love Dick Francis. The Felix Francis books are okay, but not as good.
Because of this thread, I’m sure there is an uptick in horse book sales! I bought two polar opposite horse books and am enjoying them both!
The “Scorpio Races” (sort of a realistic fantasy book, involving real horses and dangerous fantasy "water horses).
and “Taking up the Reins” about an American who rode in Germany for a year in the early 1970s. I’m half way through both of them - and recommend them both for different reasons! (Yeah, reading two books at once, depending whether I want action or dressage)
Oh my, I loved The Scorpio Races. I don’t often read books more than once, but I did that one.
Draftmare - I’m glad you’re liking Beauty. Robin McKinley has such a way with characters.
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The thing that Felix is missing is the love of the horse and the riding experience. His father always wrote in the connection between rider and horse and did play by plays of races. That’s gone. But I still like them. I have the latest one pre-ordered for Kindle and I’m chomping at the bit.
Here’s a pretty good one. I ended up having to compile a spreadsheet inventory and then note which ones I had on Kindle, paperback and hard cover.
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Goodreads is my life saver. It lets me tag the books I’ve read, so a quick glance finds the library or kindle tag. Plus I have the phone app so I can quickly check if I’ve alrrady read a book when I go on a buying spree.
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Draftmare - I’m glad you’re liking Beauty. Robin McKinley has such a way with characters.
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Just finished up Beauty, and while I love the first half of the book, I feel like the second half of the book needed about 100 more pages. I love the Kindle feature of showing me how far through the book I am, but was starting to feel a bit alarmed when I was 90% done and she was still not back with the Beast. I was starting to think that maybe the ending was that she never returned to him. Several things in the ending I felt could have been fleshed out more. Though, this book does make me want to dig out my old VHS player and watch Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It was always one of my favorite stories as a child.
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Because of this thread, I’m sure there is an uptick in horse book sales! I bought two polar opposite horse books and am enjoying them both!
The “Scorpio Races” (sort of a realistic fantasy book, involving real horses and dangerous fantasy "water horses).
and “Taking up the Reins” about an American who rode in Germany for a year in the early 1970s. I’m half way through both of them - and recommend them both for different reasons! (Yeah, reading two books at once, depending whether I want action or dressage)[/QUOTE]
Scorpio Races is one of my all time favorite books. I was very sad when the author said that there would be no follow up story.
Based on all the recommendations, I read The Scorpio Races yesterday. I loved it!
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I have thousands. Maybe it’s over ten thousand. I’ve long stopped counting. I like to read. I like to learn. I always wanted to be an author, and have written many a book that never goes anywhere because I’m too harsh on my own work.
I pay for many of my books, but there is a massive wealth of free resources out there to delve through as well. I like to buy expensive goats too, so I had to find a balance. Lol
But I don’t use Kobo I’m afraid - so sorry![/QUOTE]
I also collect epub and mobi books. I have about 5000. I’d love to do some (horse) trading of books with you. I know who you are. We are friends on FB from the hobby world.
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Absolutely Dick Francis. The earlier ones tend to be more horse-centric although all involve horses (racing/chasing) in some way.
National Velvet. Beautifully written, this book is SO much more than we saw in the (good but very simplified) movie. Powerfully beautiful descriptions of the English countryside and village life, wonderful depth and development of the characters; every time I read it I wish Enid Bagnold had written more books like this.
On a lighter note, (if you can find a copy) The Show Gypsies is a good summer wine & cheese kind of read. Not part of a series, though.
Rita Mae Brown’s “Sister Jane” series are mysteries built around foxhunting in a fictional Virginia town. Not totally horse focused, but RMB is an MFH herself so the hunting/horse parts are accurate.
The Grey Horse by R.A. McAvoy is terrific. Ireland + legends, yum.[/QUOTE]
Crozet is an actual for real small town outside Charlottesville where these books take place.
I still haven’t forgotten, but I had to put down and necropsy a favorite goat recently so I have been completely useless lately.
Hello eohippus! Good to “see” ya 
PM me your email too. Anyone else who wants .mobi files for a Kindle ebook can do so as well, might as well just send one email to many.
actually, maggie has mentioned possibly doing a sequel on her blog a couple of times! it would be with different characters and in a different year than tsr, but still, pretty cool
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I would so love a Scorpio Races sequel. One of my favorite books ever.
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Anything by Will James.
Oh, that’s awesome. After I finished Scorpio Races, I went to dig up all the info on the author I could and to see if she had any similar books or any follow up books. I found a couple of interviews of her where she stated she wouldn’t be doing anything else with that storyline which was disappointing. Excited to hear that she may be changing her mind!
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I haven’t made much progress on all the suggestions. I did want to say that I really enjoyed Dressage Chronicles. Especially as a dressage rider I found the high level of technical knowledge that the author had and put into the book really nice.
Still have To Carry The Horn on my list. I read the sample, and it reminded me of Outlander, but with horses. But first I want to read Ready Player One before the movie comes out. On a side note, I think that would be an awesome horse name too.
Draftmare, I don’t know if they have been mentioned but Robin McKinley’s books The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword are both wonderful fantasy fiction books with horses very much involved. I loved both of them. (They may have been mentioned early on in this thread.)
awwww that was such a wonderful story!!!
A book I read in high school that I seem to remember enjoying was Traveller by Richard Adams. It’s the story of the Civil War told by Robert E. Lee’s horse.
