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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,192 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,780 ratings — published 2015
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,039 ratings — published 2010
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,704 ratings — published 2014
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,148 ratings — published 1936
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,472 ratings — published 1986
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,692 ratings — published 2014
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,242 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 694 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,573 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,624 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.43 — 11,192 ratings — published 2021
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 22,590 ratings — published 2021
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 734 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,501 ratings — published 2014
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,017 ratings — published 2023
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,324 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 966 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 611 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,525 ratings — published 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,600 ratings — published 2015
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.48 — 347 ratings — published 1969
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,012 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 743 ratings — published 2021
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,297 ratings — published 2003
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,077 ratings — published 2016
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,924 ratings — published 2006
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,400 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.58 — 461 ratings — published 2012
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 516 ratings — published 1979
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,596 ratings — published 1988
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.06 — 14,454 ratings — published 2022
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,649 ratings — published 2016
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 554 ratings — published 1967
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 353 ratings — published 1989
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,234 ratings — published 2019
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 — 450 ratings — published 2016
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 337 ratings — published 2001
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 352 ratings — published 1997
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 20,523 ratings — published 2021
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,638 ratings — published 2014
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 10,656 ratings — published 2021
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 811 ratings — published 2015
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,665 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,147 ratings — published 2023
Various Positions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.02 — 1,141 ratings — published 2011
101 Stories of the Great Ballets: The Scene-by-Scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 227 ratings — published 1975
Nureyev: The Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.11 — 540 ratings — published 2007
“The thing is, ballet is a collaborative experience. Each dancer sets the scene for the next one. Even when you’re doing a solo, it’s not just about you: you are simply borrowing everyone’s attention for a few minutes, before passing it on. Ballet is about harmony. And harmony can only be achieved in the spirit of teamwork.”
― Kisses and Croissants
― Kisses and Croissants
“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
