7 Best nonfiction books like Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey by Bob Avian

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Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

By: Bob Avian

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing A Broadway Choreographer’s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey by Bob Avian , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) by Ted Chapin

1. Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books)

By: Ted Chapin

4.51

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In 1971 college student Ted Chapin found himself front row center as a production assistant at the … read more

Similar categories in Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) book and Bob Avian's Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Fellow Travelers

By: Thomas Mallon

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the highly acclaimed author of Bandboxand Dewey Defeats Truman-a searing new historical novel … read more

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3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more

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4. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

4.27

Format: 67 pages,

A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more

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  • nonfiction

5. A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more

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6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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7. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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8. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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9. Great Circle

By: Maggie Shipstead

4.11

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era M… read more

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"Numbness is not an absence of feeling but a felt absence."

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"Abandonment stings, even when it means freedom. [Hadley Baxter]"

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"You don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them."

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

"We must bend in the wind sometimes.... So much is beyond our control. [Mrs. Fahey]"

-Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

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10. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

By: Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more

Similar categories in Harvey Fierstein's I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir book and Bob Avian's Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.95

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more

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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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12. Sistersong

By: Lucy Holland

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

My sister’s heart broke on the river—and the river took it and bore it away. In the ancient king… read more

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"The only names that matter are the ones we take for ourselves."

-Lucy Holland, Sistersong

"Remember. This is your story, no matter what history will claim or what songs people sing. And it’s no one’s place to stop you from telling it."

-Lucy Holland, Sistersong

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13. The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

4.23

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, soph… read more

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"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he concluded to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"There are few things more beautiful to an author's eye, he confessed to Billy, than a well-read copy of one of his books."

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

"Making a fresh start isn't just a matter of having a new address in a new town. It isn't a matter of having a new job or a new phone number or even a new name.A fresh start requires a cleaning of the…"

-Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

Cover of She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan

14. She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time British Fantasy Award WinnerAstounding Award WinnerLambda Literary Award FinalistHugo Awar… read more

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"I can do this. I can learn. I can survive."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"Pure emotions are the luxury of children and animals"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"What I want has nothing to do with who wins." -Ouyang"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

"With sufficient competence, there's no need of flattery"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1)

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15. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

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16. A Gentleman in Moscow

By: Amor Towles

4.33

Format: 462 pages, Paperback

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring… read more

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"The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes"

-Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

"...the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time."

-Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

"I assure you, my dear, were you to play the piano on the moon, I would hear every chord."

-Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

"History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair."

-Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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17. Chita: A Memoir

By: Chita Rivera

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chit… read more

Similar categories in Chita Rivera's Chita: A Memoir book and Bob Avian's Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Magic to Do: Pippin's Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond by Elysa Gardner

18. Magic to Do: Pippin's Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond

By: Elysa Gardner

3.72

Format: 250 pages, ebook

In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pippin's opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize … read more

Similar categories in Elysa Gardner's Magic to Do: Pippin's Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond book and Bob Avian's Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3) by Tomi Adeyemi

19. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

3.49

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more

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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."

-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)

Cover of Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey by Bob Avian

20. Dancing Man: A Broadway Choreographer's Journey

By: Bob Avian

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony and Olivier Award–winning Bob Avian’s dazzling life story, Dancing A Broadway Choreographer’s… read more

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  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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4.37

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4.16

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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