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Bunheads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,300 ratings — published 2011
Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,314 ratings — published 2015
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,128 ratings — published 2014
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,153 ratings — published 2010
Ballet Shoes (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 39,375 ratings — published 1936
The Swan Lake Murders (Mary Wandwalker #4)
by (shelved 94 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.32 — 18,390 ratings — published
Astonish Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.63 — 20,199 ratings — published 2014
Dancing on My Grave (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,554 ratings — published 1986
The Ballerinas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.44 — 12,110 ratings — published 2021
The Painted Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 37,168 ratings — published 2012
Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.96 — 720 ratings — published 1982
A Company of Swans (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,744 ratings — published 1985
The Cranes Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,792 ratings — published 2012
The Turnout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.11 — 24,880 ratings — published 2021
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,252 ratings — published 2023
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,875 ratings — published 2014
Holding On to the Air (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.17 — 769 ratings — published 1990
Russian Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,478 ratings — published 2010
Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.82 — 982 ratings — published 2014
The Ballet Companion: A Dancer's Guide to the Technique, Traditions, and Joys of Ballet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.35 — 618 ratings — published 2005
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,082 ratings — published 2021
Firebird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,577 ratings — published 2014
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 802 ratings — published 2021
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,618 ratings — published 2015
Basic Principles of Classical Ballet: Russian Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.49 — 358 ratings — published 1969
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,966 ratings — published 2006
Girl Through Glass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.38 — 3,428 ratings — published 2016
Shiny Broken Pieces (Tiny Pretty Things, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,327 ratings — published 2016
Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.59 — 468 ratings — published 2012
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.15 — 33,274 ratings — published 2003
City of Night Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,390 ratings — published 2024
Ballerina (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.01 — 535 ratings — published 1979
They're Going to Love You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 21,416 ratings — published 2022
Classical Ballet Technique (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.56 — 356 ratings — published 1989
Bright Burning Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,278 ratings — published 2019
Up to This Pointe (Library Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,662 ratings — published 2016
Angelina Ballerina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,800 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 3.24 — 466 ratings — published 2016
The Walls Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.68 — 10,835 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
Midnight in Everwood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.52 — 11,606 ratings — published 2021
The Still Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,642 ratings — published 2024
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 — 3,430 ratings — published 2024
Nocturne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as ballet)
avg rating 3.23 — 2,428 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 4.02 — 362 ratings — published 1997
Margot Fonteyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as ballet)
avg rating 4.00 — 349 ratings — published 2004
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 4.03 — 233 ratings — published 1975
“The thing is, ballet is a collaborative experience. Each dancer sets the scene for the next one. Even when you’re doing a solo, it’s not just about you: you are simply borrowing everyone’s attention for a few minutes, before passing it on. Ballet is about harmony. And harmony can only be achieved in the spirit of teamwork.”
― Kisses and Croissants
― Kisses and Croissants
“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
