The most popular dance books of 2025

Books about dance move between the studio and the stage. Ballet companies, rival dancers, demanding teachers and bodies pushed to the limit provide the drama. Novels and memoirs here are about discipline and beauty, and about what people give up for a few perfect minutes. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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The Choreographer
Cover of The Choreographer

The Choreographer

Roshinaie Johnson, Anna Fong

Published 2025

624 pages

Writing on Raving
Cover of Writing on Raving

Writing on Raving

McKenzie Wark, Geoffrey Mak, Zoë Beery

Published 2025

260 pages

The Lucky Shoes
Cover of The Lucky Shoes

The Lucky Shoes

Jacqueline de Rose-Ahern

Published 2025

64 pages