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Carny Books
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Joyland (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as carny)
avg rating 3.93 — 178,504 ratings — published 2013
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as carny)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,271 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 — 15,591 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 — 1,468,826 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 — 276 ratings — published 1993
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.53 — 35,406 ratings — published 1978
Dreamland (City of Fire #1)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,893 ratings — published 1999
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.44 — 187 ratings — published 2004
The Pianoplayers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.59 — 445 ratings — published 1986
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.02 — 568,782 ratings — published 1999
Life: A User's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,114 ratings — published 1978
Up in the Old Hotel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,251 ratings — published 1992
The Circus of Dr. Lao (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,495 ratings — published 1935
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,697,211 ratings — published 2006
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as carny)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,961 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
