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Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as carny)
avg rating 3.93 — 180,308 ratings — published 2013
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carny)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,347 ratings — published 1946
Grindshow: The Selected Writings of William Lindsay Gresham (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published 2014
A Corner of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,626 ratings — published 2002
Wonder Show (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,823 ratings — published 2012
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,488,026 ratings — published 1897
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.39 — 487 ratings — published 1855
A History of the Devil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.80 — 277 ratings — published 1993
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.53 — 35,696 ratings — published 1978
Dreamland (City of Fire #1)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,906 ratings — published 1999
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.44 — 188 ratings — published 2004
The Pianoplayers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.59 — 448 ratings — published 1986
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.03 — 572,921 ratings — published 1999
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,221 ratings — published 1978
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,271 ratings — published 1992
The Circus of Dr. Lao (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,510 ratings — published 1935
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,705,905 ratings — published 2006
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,993 ratings — published 2001
“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawling regions of the country. A language which sounded Southern to Southerners, Western to Westerners. It was the talk of the soil and its drawl covered the agility of the brains that poured it out. It was a soothing, illiterate, earthy language.”
― Nightmare Alley
― Nightmare Alley
