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Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 72,755 ratings — published 1989
Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.93 — 178,513 ratings — published 2013
Bacchanal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,935 ratings — published 2021
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,271 ratings — published 1946
Vampire Most Wanted (Argeneau, #20)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,769 ratings — published 2014
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carnies)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,697,242 ratings — published 2006
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 — 447 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 — 12,590 ratings — published 1997
The Unsophisticated Arts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 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 4.22 — 317 ratings — published 1976
Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.84 — 207 ratings — published
Houdini: The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.85 — 65 ratings — published 1975
The Melancholy of Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,679 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 3.74 — 108 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 3.75 — 4 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 — 304 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 — 1,242 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 — 391 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 3.76 — 147 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 4.12 — 8 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 4.11 — 76 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 4.36 — 14 ratings — published 2007
Mémoires de Léotard (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Among the Freaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1896
The Wall of Death: Carnival Motordromes (Images of America)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Chinese Acrobatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Talent, Wonder and Delight: A Scrapbook of Victorian Entertainment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carnies)
avg rating 3.24 — 21 ratings — published 2015
