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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,241 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,041 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,959 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,099 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,940 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,570 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,982 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,512 ratings — published 1986
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,468 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,822 ratings — published 2021
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 711 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,651 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,704 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,016 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,152 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 760 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,722 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,412 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 973 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 615 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,553 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,049 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 — 774 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,616 ratings — published 2015
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,953 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.48 — 355 ratings — published 1969
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,776 ratings — published 2003
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,881 ratings — published 2022
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,199 ratings — published 2016
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,410 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 466 ratings — published 2012
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 529 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,222 ratings — published 2024
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,656 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,719 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,259 ratings — published 2019
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 358 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 — 458 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 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,729 ratings — published 2014
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,304 ratings — published 2023
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 4.16 — 3,107 ratings — published 2024
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 340 ratings — published 2001
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 357 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,474 ratings — published 2021
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 21,865 ratings — published 2021
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 346 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 4.02 — 231 ratings — published 1975
“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
“The boldest little girl places her fists on her hips and sneers up at me. "You're too big to be a ballerina."
My arms cross over my chest. "Yeah? Well you're too small to ride the really fun roller coasters."
She sticks her tongue out at me.
I stick mine out right back.”
― It's a Love/Skate Relationship
My arms cross over my chest. "Yeah? Well you're too small to ride the really fun roller coasters."
She sticks her tongue out at me.
I stick mine out right back.”
― It's a Love/Skate Relationship
