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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,225 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,955 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,869 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,082 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,676 ratings — published 1936
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,503 ratings — published 1986
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,873 ratings — published 2014
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,392 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,719 ratings — published 2021
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 706 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 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 — 3,672 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.12 — 23,676 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet – A Powerful Memoir from the School of American Ballet and the Women Who Survived It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,111 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 752 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,680 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,381 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 974 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 — 2,541 ratings — published 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,611 ratings — published 2015
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 763 ratings — published 2021
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 353 ratings — published 1969
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,036 ratings — published 2021
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,621 ratings — published 2003
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,944 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,154 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 — 16,888 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,407 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 — 1,652 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,695 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,254 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 — 456 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
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 12,518 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,262 ratings — published 2023
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,709 ratings — published 2014
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 340 ratings — published 2001
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 21,434 ratings — published 2021
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,978 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,361 ratings — published 2021
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 354 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 — 230 ratings — published 1975
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 814 ratings — published 2015
Various Positions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.02 — 1,141 ratings — published 2011
“Well, with every pirouette, we entrust the weight of our bodies on the tips of our toes, with the promise of them delivering us in cyclones. Our arms, always elegant it may appear, struggle beneath the heaviness our muscles battle to stay fluid. It looks effortless--- every allongé, every piqué as simple as the natural flow of water. But every dance, every move our bodies make, is a war against itself. It's magnificently dangerous. Like... blooming into an ocean. That's what it feels like. An ocean. Deep and rich all-encompassing, drowning out everyone in our presence. They sink into the moment, succumb to every movement, and simply just admire.”
― Dance of the Starlit Sea
― Dance of the Starlit Sea
“I have locked my heart away in a pink satin slipper.”
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