17 Top fiction books like The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

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The Ballerinas

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a…

"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

If you liked the fiction plot in The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. The Echo (The Anomaly Quartet, #2)

By: James Smythe

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years following the disappearance of the infamous Ishiguro - the first manned spacecraft to … read more

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2. Bunheads

By: Sophie Flack

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

As a dancer with the ultra-prestigious Manhattan Ballet Company, nineteen-year-old Hannah Ward jugg… read more

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3. The Fury

By: Alex Michaelides

3.38

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more

Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Fury book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Character is fate"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

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4. The Ballerinas

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"I just knew I never wanted to live in a world where you weren't my friend. [Lindsay Price, to Delphine Léger]"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

"Sometimes... I think the real tragedy of life is that we're always the people we were, and it's only our outsides that change."

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

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5. The Turnout

By: Megan Abbott

3.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si… read more

Similar categories in Megan Abbott's The Turnout book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always c…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

"The woman's body twitched suddenly, as if remembering something, and she covered her mouth with a stiff mitten. Dara knew what it was. She'd felt it a dozen times that day already. The body rememberi…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

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6. My Darling Husband

By: Kimberly Belle

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author of Dear Wife and The Marriage Lie, Kimberly Belle returns with her most heart-po… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's My Darling Husband book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Magnolia Palace

By: Fiona Davis

3.88

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantali… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Davis's The Magnolia Palace book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Writing Retreat

By: Julia Bartz

3.43

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

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9. I'll Be You

By: Janelle Brown

3.73

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

11 hours, 41 minutes Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until… read more

Similar categories in Janelle Brown's I'll Be You book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Reckless Girls

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's Reckless Girls book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Bright Burning Things

By: Lisa Harding

3.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Harding's Bright Burning Things book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Greenwich Park

By: Katherine Faulkner

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Helen’s idyllic life—handsome architect husband, gorgeous Victorian house, and cherished baby on th… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Faulkner's Greenwich Park book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had to remember not to stare. It can be hard not to stare at happy people. They are mesmerizing somehow."

-Katherine Faulkner, Greenwich Park

"But then, no one really thinks they are bad, do they? Whoever we are, whatever we've done. We all have our reasons, if anyone can be bothered to listen."

-Katherine Faulkner, Greenwich Park

Cover of Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb

13. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

By: Alice Robb

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de… read more

Similar categories in Alice Robb's Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"

-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

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14. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

Similar categories in Rae Meadows's Winterland book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

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16. Good Rich People

By: Eliza Jane Brazier

3.24

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Lyla has always believed that life is a game she is destined to win, but her husband, Graham, takes… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Good Rich People book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Christie Affair

By: Nina de Gramont

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desp… read more

Similar categories in Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It seemed an important lesson for a young person. It wasn't only the angry people that should make one wary. The jolly ones could be even more dangerous."

-Nina de Gramont, The Christie Affair

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18. Bright Burning Stars

By: A.K. Small

3.48

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since chil… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Small's Bright Burning Stars book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Club by Ellery Lloyd

20. The Club

By: Ellery Lloyd

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062997425. From the author of People Like Her comes a smart … read more

Similar categories in Ellery Lloyd's The Club book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ballerinas

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the conseque…"

-Ellery Lloyd, The Club

Cover of The Edge by James Smythe

21. The Edge

By: James Smythe

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sharp, gripping, and disturbing, The Edge is the third book in The Anomaly Quartet. Years ago, … read more

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Alex Michaelides

3.38

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Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.44

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3.11

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My Darling Husband

Kimberly Belle

3.65

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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Beatriz Williams

3.71

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