Start with high-confidence ballet & classical dance books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
George Balanchine
Robert Gottlieb
Margot Fonteyn
Meredith Daneman
The Ballerina Mindset
Megan Fairchild
The Dancer's Way
Linda H. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Don't Think, Dear
Alice Robb
Ballet and Modern Dance Third Edition
Susan Au
Serenade
Toni Bentley
This Is Ballet
Rekha S. Rajan
XO Ballerina Big Sis
Tiler Peck
The Ballet Companion
Eliza Gaynor Minden
My First Ballet Book
Kate Castle
The Ballet Book
DARCEY BUSSELL
Ballerina
Jane Hackett
Ballet for Dummies
Scott Speck, Evelyn Cisneros
Apollo's Angels
Jennifer Homans
Classical Ballet Technique
Gretchen W. Warren
Balanchine Variations
Nancy Goldner
Ballroom!
Sharon Savoy
Being a Ballerina
Gavin Larsen
Diaghilev's Empire
Rupert Christiansen
To Dance
Siena Cherson Siegel
On Wings of Joy
Trudy Garfunkel
