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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,285 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,241 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,075 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,129 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,233 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,568 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,127 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,543 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.44 — 12,037 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 37,054 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 719 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,718 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,747 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,635 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,233 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 764 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,832 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,455 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 978 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.35 — 617 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,568 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,072 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 796 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,619 ratings — published 2015
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 359 ratings — published 1969
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,961 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,292 ratings — published 2016
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,128 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,423 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 467 ratings — published 2012
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 33,076 ratings — published 2003
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 533 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,113 ratings — published 2024
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,275 ratings — published 2019
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,663 ratings — published 2016
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 356 ratings — published 1989
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,763 ratings — published 1988
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 463 ratings — published 2016
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,811 ratings — published 2014
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 563 ratings — published 1967
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,368 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.52 — 11,562 ratings — published 2021
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 341 ratings — published 2001
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 360 ratings — published 1997
The Still Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,602 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,397 ratings — published 2023
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 22,732 ratings — published 2021
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 349 ratings — published 2004
“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.”
― But for the Lovers
― But for the Lovers
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.”
― The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
― The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality
