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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,234 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,016 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 9,938 ratings — published 2014
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,865 ratings — published 1936
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,095 ratings — published 2010
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,957 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,508 ratings — published 1986
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 85 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 14,527 ratings — published
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,439 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,797 ratings — published 2021
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 710 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,642 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,692 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 23,910 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,138 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 758 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,707 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,406 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 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 — 612 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,546 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 — 770 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
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,046 ratings — published 2021
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,947 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 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 — 32,722 ratings — published 2003
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,597 ratings — published 2022
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,187 ratings — published 2016
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,407 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
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 527 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,034 ratings — published 2024
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,654 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,712 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,257 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 3.21 — 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
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 358 ratings — published 1989
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,725 ratings — published 2014
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,290 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 4.18 — 2,765 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
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,442 ratings — published 2021
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 21,743 ratings — published 2021
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 356 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 — 816 ratings — published 2015
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
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“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
