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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 — 32,671 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 — 17,233 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 — 12,788 ratings — published 2024
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,045 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 — 2,178 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
“Dancing is more than just taking steps; it is a language, a way of speaking without words, where every gesture tells a story and lays bare the soul. Article at Dansmagazine 2011”
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“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
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