Read-alikes and related books

Books like Pony

Across Ghost Stories, Horses, Boys & Men, and Survival Stories — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Pony by R. J. Palacio.

Ghost Stories Horses Boys & Men Survival Stories 19th Century Family Animals United States Action & Adventure Historical Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Pony

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Pony.

A Horse Named Sky

Rosanne Parry

Themes: Horses • Survival Stories • 19th Century

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • 19th Century

A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket

Deborah Hopkinson

Themes: Horses • Survival Stories • 19th Century

I Escaped The Donner Party Pioneers on the Oregon Trail, 1846

Scott Peters

Themes: Horses • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

City of Gold

Will Hobbs

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

Some Kind of Courage

Dan Gemeinhart

Themes: Horses • 19th Century • Family

The Oregon Trail: Gold Rush!

Jesse Wiley

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • 19th Century

Another Quest for Celeste

Henry Cole

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

PrestonPlayz: the Mystery of the Super Spooky Secret House A Graphic Novel

PrestonPlayz

Themes: Ghost Stories • Survival Stories • Family

#10

The Grand Tour Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality, Or, The Purloined Coronation Regalia

Patricia C. Wrede

Themes: Ghost Stories • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

#11

Paradise Inspired by a True Story of Survival

Joan Elizabeth Goodman

Themes: Ghost Stories • Boys & Men • Survival Stories

#12

Riding Freedom — Pam Muñoz Ryan

Pam Munoz Ryan

Themes: Horses • 19th Century • Family

#13

The Ever-After Bird

Ann Rinaldi

Themes: Boys & Men • 19th Century • Family

#14

The Lost Whale

Hannah Gold

Themes: Horses • Survival Stories • Family

#15

Freewater (Newbery and Coretta Scott King Award Winner)

Amina Luqman-Dawson

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

#16

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (Special Edition: I Survived #1)

Lauren Tarshis

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

#17

Shane

Jack Schaefer

Themes: Boys & Men • 19th Century • Family

#18

The Moffats

Eleanor Estes

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Family

#19

Conjure Island

Eden Royce

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

#20

Pax 2-Book Box Set Pax and Pax, Journey Home

Sara Pennypacker

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Family

#21

Promises to the Dead

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Boys & Men • 19th Century • Family

#22

All Their Names Were Courage

Sharon Phillips Denslow

Themes: Horses • 19th Century • Family

#23

Resurrection of the Phoenix’s Grace (Book Four) Phoenix Teen & Young Adult Epic Fantasy with Phoenixes

LRW Lee

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Family

#24

Twist of Gold

Michael Morpurgo

Themes: Survival Stories • 19th Century • Family

If Pony by R. J. Palacio is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Ghost Stories, Horses, Boys & Men and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Rosanne Parry, Jean Lee Latham, Deborah Hopkinson, Scott Peters, and others.