Amusement Parks


Joyland
FantasticLand
Swamplandia!
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Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Roller Coaster
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
Hot Dog Girl
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Palisades Park
Wild Ride
The Getaway
The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them
Utopia
Dream Factory by Brad  BarkleyMurder Land by Carlyn GreenwaldOnce Upon a Royal Summer by Teri WilsonThe Truth About Happily Ever After by Karole CozzoDifficult Girls by Veronica Bane
YA Books with Amusement/Theme Parks
16 books — 10 voters
Meet Me at Wonderland by Julia DeVillersLove at First Knight by Megan ClawsonBig Wild Summer by Stephanie J. ScottWe Could Be Magic by Marissa MeyerGradchanted by Morgan Matson
Amusement Park Romances
6 books — 1 voter

The New Roadside America by Mike WilkinsAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Last Stop by Ryann FordThe Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road by Max BrallierRoadside America by John Margolies
Roadside America
12 books — 2 voters
Murder Land by Carlyn GreenwaldFantasticLand by Mike BockovenTilt-a-Whirl by Chris GrabensteinUtopia by Lincoln ChildAt the End of Every Day by Arianna  Reiche
Roller Coasters on Cover
22 books — 11 voters


Gary Heiden
I learned to keep my eyes open and my mouth shut.
Gary Heiden, Roller Coaster Kids; Tales of 1960's Coney Island

Dean Koontz
It's difficult to spend time in any carnival or amusement park and not realize that a repressed fear of death may be the one emotion that is constant in the human heart even if, most of the time, it is confined to the unconscious as we go about our business. Thrill rides offer us a chance to acknowledge our ever-present dread, to release the tension that arises from repression of it, and to subtly delude ourselves with the illusion of invulnerability that surviving the Big Drop can provide. ...more
Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

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