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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Smartass
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Smartass

Emily Sayre Smith

Published 2025

280 pages

Slow Burn
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Slow Burn

Oti Mabuse

Published 2025

352 pages

Dance Drill
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Dance Drill

Thomas Kingsley Troupe

Published 2025

32 pages

Our Dance
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Our Dance

Jacinta Daniher, Taylor Hampton

Published 2025

32 pages

Dance of Resistance
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Dance of Resistance

Catherine Johnson, Katie Hickey

Published 2025

120 pages