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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,213 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,888 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,811 ratings — published 2014
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 38,418 ratings — published 1936
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,069 ratings — published 2010
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 19,801 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,489 ratings — published 1986
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,340 ratings — published 2012
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,617 ratings — published 2021
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 701 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,608 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,652 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.12 — 23,334 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 56 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,071 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.16 — 744 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,634 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,356 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 971 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 — 610 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,537 ratings — published 2014
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,607 ratings — published 2015
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,027 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 758 ratings — published 2021
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 352 ratings — published 1969
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,482 ratings — published 2003
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,938 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,122 ratings — published 2016
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.06 — 15,993 ratings — published 2022
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 466 ratings — published 2012
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,405 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 522 ratings — published 1979
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,244 ratings — published 2019
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,650 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,641 ratings — published 1988
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 354 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 — 455 ratings — published 2016
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.40 — 558 ratings — published 1967
White Swan, Black Swan (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.54 — 339 ratings — published 2001
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 20,981 ratings — published 2021
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 11,719 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,220 ratings — published 2023
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 10,993 ratings — published 2021
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,683 ratings — published 2014
Once a Dancer: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 353 ratings — published 1997
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,197 ratings — published
Off Balance (Ballet Theatre Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 813 ratings — published 2015
Various Positions (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.02 — 1,142 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 4.02 — 228 ratings — published 1975
“I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin.”
― Jolly Super Too
― Jolly Super Too
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
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