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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,267 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,138 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,017 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,113 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,102 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,655 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,042 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,530 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,923 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 36,805 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 714 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,684 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,725 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,370 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,191 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 761 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,784 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,434 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 48 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.36 — 615 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,561 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,063 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 787 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,619 ratings — published 2015
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,956 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 358 ratings — published 1969
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,768 ratings — published 2022
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,245 ratings — published 2016
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,418 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 466 ratings — published 2012
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,921 ratings — published 2003
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 531 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,728 ratings — published 2024
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,658 ratings — published 2016
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,262 ratings — published 2019
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,745 ratings — published 1988
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 356 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 — 463 ratings — published 2016
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,775 ratings — published 2014
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 562 ratings — published 1967
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,294 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,531 ratings — published 2021
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,353 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 — 360 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 4.03 — 232 ratings — published 1975
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,271 ratings — published 2021
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 346 ratings — published 2004
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and in measure.....Therefore, whatever the old doctors may say, to employ oneself at all this is to be a Philosopher and a Mathematician.”
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“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
