Sideshow


American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
Water for Elephants
Geek Love
When the Tides Held the Moon
The Tattooed Lady: A History
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
The Night Circus
Freak Like Me
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson
The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
I Love You Honey, But the Season's Over by Connie ClausenQueen of the Air by Dean JensenThe Circus by Noel DanielThe Electric Woman by Tessa FontaineRinglingville USA by Jerry Apps
Best Non-Fiction Circus Books
22 books — 14 voters

Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. MannixHellebore the Clown by Maurice RowdonHaxby's Circus by Katharine Susannah PrichardBeau Clown by Berthe GrimaultCircus Queen and Tinker Bell by Tiny Kline
Fried Spiral On A Stick
109 books — 4 voters

Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Mermaid by Christina HenryGeek Love by Katherine DunnThe Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
Circus Historical Fiction
42 books — 11 voters

Adriana Mather
Seriously, no. Go be weird somewhere else.” I want people to stop hating me, not treat me like a sideshow.
Adriana Mather, How to Hang a Witch

Thomas Ligotti
All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything that we supposedly live by and supposedly die by — whether it's religious scriptures or makeshift slogans — all of it is show business. The rise and fall of empires — show business. Science, philosophy, all of the disciplines under the sun, and even the sun itself, as well as all those other clumps of matter wobbling about in the blackness up there —' he said to me, pointi ...more
Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

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Hideous Souls (An Occult Roleplay) Norville Wheelwright's Traveling Sideshow Though considered entertainment by the common cro…more
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