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Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 75,062 ratings — published 1989
Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.92 — 186,686 ratings — published 2013
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,763 ratings — published 1962
Bacchanal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,102 ratings — published 2021
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,586 ratings — published 1946
Vampire Most Wanted (Argeneau, #20)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,848 ratings — published 2014
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,724,990 ratings — published 2006
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.48 — 383,540 ratings — published 2021
Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.17 — 97,937 ratings — published 1995
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,135,215 ratings — published 2011
Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes: A Book about the Show Business in All Its Branches: From Puppet Shows to Grand Opera: From Mountebanks to Menageries; From Learned Pigs to Lecturers; From Burlesque Blondes to Actors and Actresses: With Some (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Tramps & Trade Union Travelers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Kings in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.88 — 455 ratings — published 1990
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,969 ratings — published 1997
The Unsophisticated Arts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.31 — 13 ratings — published 2014
Znuz is Znees: Memoirs of a magician, Pierre Fermat vindicated (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare the Pants off America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.21 — 324 ratings — published 1976
Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.82 — 216 ratings — published
Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.83 — 66 ratings — published 1975
The Melancholy of Resistance (Apocalypse Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,264 ratings — published 1989
The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2015
George Alexander Stevens and the Lecture on Heads (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers (Modern American Literature)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 2005
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.77 — 112 ratings — published 2001
Hang on Tight! A Retrospective Look at the 2nd Generation of Amusement Rides (1950s-1980s)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Old Showmen, and the London Fairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1881
The Ethnological Exhibitions of London (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Dick's Parlor Exhibitions: Containing a Large and Varied Collection of Elegant Home Amusements, Including Tableaux Vivants, Simple and Elaborate; Living Portraits; Living Statuary; Dame History's Peep-Show; Illustrated Ballads; Dramatic and Pantomimic Cha (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Before the Movies: American Magic Lantern Entertainment and the Nation's First Great Screen Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Fairground Architecture: The World of Amusement Parks, Carnivals, and Fairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.64 — 306 ratings — published 2014
Step Right Up!: Classic American Target and Arcade Forms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2014
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,247 ratings — published 2014
Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.74 — 397 ratings — published 2013
Stage Effect Sensations: An Astounding History Revealing Amazing Mechanical Devices (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.78 — 150 ratings — published 2012
Entertainment in the Old West: Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published 2011
The Carnival of Death or the Modern Dance and Other Amusements (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1926
Fifty Years In The Magic Circle: An Account Of The Author's Professional Life; His Wonderful Tricks And Feats; With Laughable Incidents, And Adventures As A Magician, Necromancer, And Ventriloquist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
Dancing With Spirits: the Festivals & Folklore of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
Silent Magic: Biographies of Deaf Magicians in the United States from the 19th to 21st Centuries (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Burleycue: An Underground History of Burlesque Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1931
Dan Stuart's Fistic Carnival (Continental Philosophy)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1994
Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2006
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.09 — 81 ratings — published 2000
Midget Exhibit: Images from the Heyday of Dwarf Display (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2004
Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz (American Made Music Series)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Mémoires de Léotard (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published