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Ballet Books
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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,255 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,074 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,978 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,108 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,004 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,618 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,010 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,513 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.45 — 11,844 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.61 — 36,504 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.95 — 713 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,656 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,710 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,149 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,160 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 760 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,741 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,421 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 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 — 615 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,558 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,056 ratings — published 2021
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 780 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,613 ratings — published 2015
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,954 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 356 ratings — published 1969
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,210 ratings — published 2016
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,826 ratings — published 2003
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,176 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,412 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 — 530 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 13,414 ratings — published 2024
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,656 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,728 ratings — published 1988
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,259 ratings — published 2019
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 358 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 — 462 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 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,748 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 4.16 — 3,191 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,318 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 — 357 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 4.02 — 231 ratings — published 1975
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.53 — 11,493 ratings — published 2021
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 21,971 ratings — published 2021
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 346 ratings — published 2004
“I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe.”
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“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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