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Circus Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 666 times as circus)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,092,151 ratings — published 2011
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 650 times as circus)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,695,336 ratings — published 2006
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 169 times as circus)
avg rating 3.97 — 857,556 ratings — published 2016
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,656 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as circus)
avg rating 3.61 — 38,856 ratings — published 2015
Kiss an Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as circus)
avg rating 4.17 — 69,673 ratings — published 1996
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as circus)
avg rating 3.90 — 153,021 ratings — published 1962
Nights at the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as circus)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,625 ratings — published 1984
Circus of Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as circus)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,110 ratings — published 2021
Circus Mirandus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,842 ratings — published 2015
The Orphan's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as circus)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,595 ratings — published 2017
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as circus)
avg rating 4.10 — 447,254 ratings — published 2018
The Life She Was Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as circus)
avg rating 4.10 — 52,986 ratings — published 2017
The Failed Audition (Circus Is Family #1)
by (shelved 54 times as circus)
avg rating 4.21 — 10,813 ratings — published 2014
Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,407 ratings — published 2013
Girl on a Wire (Cirque American, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,639 ratings — published 2014
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,225 ratings — published 2011
The Circus Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as circus)
avg rating 4.02 — 24,472 ratings — published 2022
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 49 times as circus)
avg rating 4.13 — 370,814 ratings — published 2019
The Circus In Winter: A Debut Literary Novel of Family, Love, and Small-Town Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as circus)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,604 ratings — published 2004
The Ladies of the Secret Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as circus)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,696 ratings — published 2021
Menagerie (Menagerie, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as circus)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,258 ratings — published 2015
Extraordinary Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as circus)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,242 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as circus)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,809 ratings — published 2000
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as circus)
avg rating 3.64 — 9,866 ratings — published 2020
Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as circus)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,190 ratings — published 2015
Daughter of the Burning City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,149 ratings — published 2017
The Gracekeepers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as circus)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,443 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Circus: Act One (Cirque des Immortels, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,087 ratings — published 2012
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as circus)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,507 ratings — published 2015
The First Bright Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,479 ratings — published 2023
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 4.27 — 208,999 ratings — published 2012
Wonder Show (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,827 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Feathers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,520 ratings — published 2015
The Circus Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,523 ratings — published 2009
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,956 ratings — published 2001
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as circus)
avg rating 3.77 — 56,841 ratings — published 2014
Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as circus)
avg rating 3.69 — 957 ratings — published 2013
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as circus)
avg rating 3.72 — 10,901 ratings — published 2011
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,206 ratings — published 2024
The Contortionist (Harrow Faire, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,790 ratings — published 2020
Harley in the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,671 ratings — published 2020
A Son of the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 21,264 ratings — published 1994
The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,992 ratings — published 2015
That Time I Joined the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,028 ratings — published 2013
Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 63,740 ratings — published 2000
If I Ran the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,932 ratings — published 1956
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as circus)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,567 ratings — published 1997
The Boundless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as circus)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,650 ratings — published 2014
The Pilo Family Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as circus)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,862 ratings — published 2006
“At various points in our lives we had considered joining the circus, a daydream handed to us, in fact, by our parents. If we got mad and were casting around for something to do about it, our parents would suggest with great mirth that we run away to join the circus and eventually it became a concrete possibility in our minds, a genuine emergency hatch through which we could slip if things became too unbearable. Although we hadn’t been to a circus, we had ideas of what it might entail: days of trundling along in painted wagons and stringing cooking pots over rosy fires and sitting in front of mirrors lit up by light bulbs as large as conference pears, broken up by spurts of action in which we tested our fantastic discipline against the messy and somewhat arbitrary nature of death. I don’t think it’s something kids think about anymore and anyway we never did it. We stayed right where we were, which our parents always knew would be the case and also why they’d offered it up like a dare in the first place. It was unkind but also their way of reaffirming the cords that bound us.”
― Idle Grounds
― Idle Grounds
“Dreaming is easy, hammering out concrete details is hard.”
― The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century
― The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century
