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American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 590 ratings — published 2005
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,730,094 ratings — published 2006
Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 75,643 ratings — published 1989
The Tattooed Lady: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 184 ratings — published 2009
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
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avg rating 4.07 — 257,133 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,362 ratings — published 2011
Freak Like Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 126 ratings — published 1995
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 327 ratings — published 1976
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 138 ratings — published 1951
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 917 ratings — published 2006
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 465 ratings — published 1997
To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower's History of Sword Swallowing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published
The Friend of the Family (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 18,948 ratings — published 2026
When the Tides Held the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 16,345 ratings — published 2025
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 19,025 ratings — published 2024
The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 68 ratings — published
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 6,873 ratings — published 1999
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 300 ratings — published 1988
Jay's Journal of Anomalies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 219 ratings — published 2001
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 70 ratings — published 2005
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 469 ratings — published 1986
Charm & Other Illusions (The Invisible Circus, #2)
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avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,617 ratings — published 2015
Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 543 ratings — published 2021
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 70 ratings — published
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 43 ratings — published 1953
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 7,658 ratings — published 1946
My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 116 ratings — published 1984
The Elephant Man (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,956 ratings — published 1980
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 22,570 ratings — published 2009
Chang and Eng (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 2,105 ratings — published 2000
Freaks: the Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 49 ratings — published 2006
Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published 1998
The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 159 ratings — published 2000
Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 4,008 ratings — published 2003
Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 41 ratings — published 2001
The Mystery and Lore of Monsters - With Accounts Of Some Giants, Dwarfs And Prodigies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 35 ratings — published 1930
Human Oddities: A Book of Nature's Anomalies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 1987
The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 71 ratings — published 1999
Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 42 ratings — published 1995
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 336 ratings — published 2008
Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 2005
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,534 ratings — published 2013
Carny Sideshows: Weird Wonders of the Midway (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 2010
Carny Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 120 ratings — published 2005
Secrets of the Sideshows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 190 ratings — published 2005
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 112 ratings — published 2001
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 149 ratings — published 1996
Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 48 ratings — published 2010
“Everyone has their secrets, and there are shadows following us all.”
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“A crowd of men stood in front of them. Of all ages, with expressions of sex-wonder in their eyes, gazing curiously as men who cannot solve a mystery that populates graveyards and through the ages has sent poets, popes, kings and fools to the junk heap.”
― Circus Parade
― Circus Parade
