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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,297 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,297 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,113 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,142 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,337 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,555 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,187 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,553 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.44 — 12,090 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 37,122 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 721 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,737 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,784 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,815 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,247 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 767 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,863 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,469 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 980 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 618 ratings — published 2005
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,076 ratings — published 2021
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,574 ratings — published 2014
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 800 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 43 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 — 3,964 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,315 ratings — published 2016
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,426 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 468 ratings — published 2012
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.15 — 33,219 ratings — published 2003
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,307 ratings — published 2024
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,067 ratings — published 2022
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 534 ratings — published 1979
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 357 ratings — published 1989
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,276 ratings — published 2019
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,663 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,779 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 — 465 ratings — published 2016
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,834 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 — 3,408 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.52 — 11,594 ratings — published 2021
The Still Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,626 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,417 ratings — published 2023
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
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 349 ratings — published 2004
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 4.03 — 232 ratings — published 1975
“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
“They would enchant him with their music, their wordless beauty, and then they would dance him to death, carrying his body with them into another realm when the first sunlight broke through the canopy of leaves”
― The Feminine Art of Revenge
― The Feminine Art of Revenge
