Ballet


Bunheads
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
Ballet Shoes
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
Astonish Me
Dancing on My Grave
The Painted Girls
The Ballerinas
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal
A Company of Swans
The Cranes Dance
The Turnout
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet – A Powerful Memoir from the School of American Ballet and the Women Who Survived It
Holding On to the Air
Tempted by Deception by Rina KentBrutal Obsession by S. MasseryIn Peace Lies Havoc by Amo JonesThe Breakout Crew Trilogy by Amber TorneyDo Me a Favor by Jessa Kane
Ballet Shoes
48 books — 13 voters

The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie BuchananThe Melting Season by Celeste ConwayA Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonBunheads by Sophie FlackDon't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Tutus
33 books — 7 voters
Ballet Boy by Anfaney GladwinAngelina Ballerina by Katharine HolabirdVampirina Ballerina by Anne Marie PaceNutcracker by E.T.A. HoffmannAmazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Picture Books for Young Ballerinas
161 books — 66 voters

Ballet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildBallet Boy by Anfaney GladwinRussian Winter by Daphne KalotayDancergirl by Carol M. TanzmanDancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland
Best Books About Dance
225 books — 194 voters
Bunheads by Sophie FlackA Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildDancergirl by Carol M. TanzmanOn Pointe by Lorie Ann Grover
YA Dance Books
199 books — 247 voters

Wilfrido D. Nolledo
Tchaikovsky would grate into music, leak out like an ointment from the long day’s captivity. At night neighbors heard the grating nonstop ballet inveigle into dance these three tenants; either they moved to Russian music or they sat before each other, numbed and apologetic.
Wilfrido D. Nolledo, But for the Lovers

Kiana Krystle
I wanted to be recognized in the stories I loved so badly. With ballet, it doesn't matter where you come from. It matters how good you are." "That's why you trained so hard." "Yes, but it wasn't just that." Before things were bad, my mother used to ask why I was so drawn to the sea. I told her that although the sea is dangerous beneath the surface, people still find beauty in it from above. It's still something to be adored, even if it is usually only ever loved at a distance. That's why I loved ...more
Kiana Krystle, Dance of the Starlit Sea

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