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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,280 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,210 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,060 ratings — published 2014
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,193 ratings — published 1936
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,127 ratings — published 2010
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,562 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 20,108 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,539 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.44 — 12,003 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 37,013 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 719 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,707 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,733 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,540 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,222 ratings — published 2023
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 762 ratings — published 1990
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,816 ratings — published 2014
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,445 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 977 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 4.35 — 616 ratings — published 2005
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,566 ratings — published 2014
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,068 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 — 790 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,620 ratings — published 2015
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,958 ratings — published 2006
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 359 ratings — published 1969
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,280 ratings — published 2016
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,641 ratings — published 2022
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,422 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 — 33,026 ratings — published 2003
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 533 ratings — published 1979
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,003 ratings — published 2024
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,661 ratings — published 2016
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 356 ratings — published 1989
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,271 ratings — published 2019
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,760 ratings — published 1988
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 — 10,798 ratings — published 2014
Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.39 — 563 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 — 3,345 ratings — published 2024
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.52 — 11,552 ratings — published 2021
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
The Still Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,590 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,376 ratings — published 2023
Kisses and Croissants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,603 ratings — published 2021
“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”
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“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
