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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,266 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,097 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,002 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,111 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,050 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,635 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,027 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,520 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.44 — 11,863 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,536 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 713 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,667 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,717 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,235 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,171 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 — 5,767 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,425 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 975 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 — 616 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,556 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,062 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 — 783 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,615 ratings — published 2015
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,955 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.48 — 357 ratings — published 1969
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,225 ratings — published 2016
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,451 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,414 ratings — published 2016
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,869 ratings — published 2003
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
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,579 ratings — published 2024
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 529 ratings — published 1979
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,657 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,733 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,262 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 3.23 — 462 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 3.69 — 10,767 ratings — published 2014
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,511 ratings — published 2021
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 — 3,238 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,334 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 — 358 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 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 231 ratings — published 1975
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 22,073 ratings — published 2021
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 346 ratings — published 2004
“Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez. Una alegría tan profunda justifica los sacrificios más crueles. La educación que os damos aquí tiende a presentar la danza como lo que es: no un medio sino una recompensa.”
― The Book of Proper Names
― The Book of Proper Names
“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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