Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
By: Jennifer Homans
4.33
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - "A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst…
Want to Read $ 6.99If you liked the biography memoir plot in Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century by Jennifer Homans , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer
By: Elizabeth Kendall , Kendall
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Here is the first dual biography of the early lives of two key figures in Russian ballet: famed cho… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Elizabeth Kendall's Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- biography
- history
- russia
- nonfiction
2. A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back
By: David Hallberg
4.04
Format: None pages,
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Hallberg's A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- art
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, & My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker
By: Lauren Kessler
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Like generations of little girls, Lauren Kessler fell in love with ballet the first time she saw Th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Lauren Kessler's Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts, & My Midlife Quest to Dance The Nutcracker book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
4. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
By: Sue Roe
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Sue Roe's In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
5. Holding On to the Air
By: Toni Bentley , Suzanne Farrell
4.22
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Suzanne Farrell, world-renowned ballerina, was one of George Balanchine's most celebrated muses and… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Toni Bentley's Holding On to the Air book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
6. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Jonathan Eig's King: A Life book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
7. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
By: Mary Rodgers
4.24
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Mary Rodgers's Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
8. My Name Is Barbra
By: Barbra Streisand
4.20
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Barbra Streisand's My Name Is Barbra book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
9. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
10. Up Home: One Girl's Journey
By: Ruth J. Simmons
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ruth J. Simmons's Up Home: One Girl's Journey book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey
11. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By: Griffin Dunne
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
12. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By: Drew Gilpin Faust
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in th… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Drew Gilpin Faust's Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"I knew I had had no choice. I had had to fight with my mother in order to survive."-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"In an increasingly serious world, these young women had never been asked or expected to be serious. (p. 13)"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
"There is a clarity about how children see the world that the complexities of adult life often muddy. And there is a fervor children feel when they believe adults have misled them or disguised or hidd…"-Drew Gilpin Faust, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
13. In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
By: Jonna Méndez
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling co-author of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of bein… read more
Want to Read $ 18.99Similar categories in Jonna Méndez's In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
14. George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy
By: Sally Bedell Smith
4.28
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Sally Bedell Smith's George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
15. Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
By: Jennifer Homans
4.33
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - "A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- art
- art history
- russia
- biography
- history
- memoir
- female authors
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- 21st century
16. 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
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Alice Robb's Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"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
17. Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina
By: Georgina Pazcoguin
3.83
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives reade… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Georgina Pazcoguin's Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
18. Serenade: A Balanchine Story
By: Toni Bentley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Toni Bentley's Serenade: A Balanchine Story book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- memoir
19. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
By: Alice Bolin
3.03
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
A collection of poignant, perceptive essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an e… read more
Want to Read $ 1.99Similar categories in Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- nonfiction
- memoir
20. The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
By: Misty Copeland
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir … read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Misty Copeland's The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson book and Jennifer Homans's Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
- art
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
