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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,229 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 15,981 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,902 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,089 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,768 ratings — published 1936
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,913 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,505 ratings — published 1986
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,414 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,751 ratings — published 2021
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 709 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,630 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,690 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.12 — 23,802 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,125 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 755 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,694 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,397 ratings — published 2010
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 612 ratings — published 2005
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 973 ratings — published 2014
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,543 ratings — published 2014
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 765 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,613 ratings — published 2015
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,039 ratings — published 2021
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.48 — 354 ratings — published 1969
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,945 ratings — published 2006
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,672 ratings — published 2003
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,172 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 467 ratings — published 2012
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,234 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,409 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 524 ratings — published 1979
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,651 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,709 ratings — published 1988
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 12,789 ratings — published 2024
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,064 ratings — published
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,256 ratings — published 2019
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 357 ratings — published 1989
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.22 — 457 ratings — published 2016
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 559 ratings — published 1967
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,716 ratings — published 2014
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,179 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,275 ratings — published 2023
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 340 ratings — published 2001
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,419 ratings — published 2021
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 21,589 ratings — published 2021
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 355 ratings — published 1997
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 231 ratings — published 1975
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 815 ratings — published 2015
“We break off into the streets, repairing the cobblestones with our brisk allegro. The townsfolk step aside in awe as my allongés stitch the pastel wood back into cottages and storefronts. Flowers grow from my quick bourrée steps, breathing life back into Luna Island in shades of pink and purple. Rainbows rise from the sea with my grand jeté, summoning the dolphins to leap alongside our dance. Damien catches me in his arms before lifting me into the air as I paint the sky bright blue.
We laugh as the beauty of Luna Island blooms once again, running into the forest and turning the ash into lush green trees. Color bursts in the darkness as we chassé through the angels' village and past the glade where our story first began. With my pirouettes, I add extra pink petals to the garden where Damien and I once lay.
I break into a series of chaîné turns as we make our way back down to the beach, unleashing the magic Luna bestowed upon me. The townsfolk watch in awe in the midst of the commotion, and I dust them in a veil of starlight that follows my path, healing bruises and stitching wounds until no one bleeds. They gather around me as I finish my dance, thrumming with applause and tossing the freshly spun flowers at my feet.”
― Dance of the Starlit Sea
We laugh as the beauty of Luna Island blooms once again, running into the forest and turning the ash into lush green trees. Color bursts in the darkness as we chassé through the angels' village and past the glade where our story first began. With my pirouettes, I add extra pink petals to the garden where Damien and I once lay.
I break into a series of chaîné turns as we make our way back down to the beach, unleashing the magic Luna bestowed upon me. The townsfolk watch in awe in the midst of the commotion, and I dust them in a veil of starlight that follows my path, healing bruises and stitching wounds until no one bleeds. They gather around me as I finish my dance, thrumming with applause and tossing the freshly spun flowers at my feet.”
― Dance of the Starlit Sea
“Let us take care of our Garden of Eden with the fragrance of its flowers and the oxygen of its sheltering trees and savor the fruits of each precious single moment ever since life can be a sparkling ballet expressing the beauties and values that enlighten and enrich us. ( "Why step out of nature?")”
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