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Circus Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 685 times as circus)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,136,180 ratings — published 2011
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 654 times as circus)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,725,658 ratings — published 2006
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 173 times as circus)
avg rating 3.97 — 973,570 ratings — published 2016
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,130 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as circus)
avg rating 3.60 — 39,279 ratings — published 2015
Kiss an Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as circus)
avg rating 4.16 — 71,181 ratings — published 1996
Nights at the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as circus)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,182 ratings — published 1984
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as circus)
avg rating 3.89 — 158,934 ratings — published 1962
Circus of Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as circus)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,494 ratings — published 2021
Circus Mirandus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,979 ratings — published 2015
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 511,271 ratings — published 2018
The Orphan's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as circus)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,489 ratings — published 2017
Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,576 ratings — published 2013
The Life She Was Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as circus)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,397 ratings — published 2017
The Circus Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as circus)
avg rating 4.01 — 25,588 ratings — published 2022
The Failed Audition (Circus Is Family #1)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 4.20 — 10,945 ratings — published 2014
Girl on a Wire (Cirque American, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,647 ratings — published 2014
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,243 ratings — published 2011
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as circus)
avg rating 4.12 — 425,792 ratings — published 2019
The Circus In Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,633 ratings — published 2004
The Ladies of the Secret Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as circus)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,232 ratings — published 2021
Menagerie (Menagerie, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as circus)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,325 ratings — published 2015
Extraordinary Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as circus)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,251 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,878 ratings — published 2000
Daughter of the Burning City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,195 ratings — published 2017
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as circus)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,023 ratings — published 2020
Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as circus)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,202 ratings — published 2015
The Gracekeepers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as circus)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,533 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Circus: Act One (Cirque des Immortels, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,098 ratings — published 2012
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as circus)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,606 ratings — published 2015
The First Bright Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as circus)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,689 ratings — published 2023
Wonder Show (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as circus)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,828 ratings — published 2012
The Contortionist (Harrow Faire, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,636 ratings — published 2020
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 4.27 — 217,411 ratings — published 2012
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,034 ratings — published 2001
The Weight of Feathers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,557 ratings — published 2015
The Circus Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,624 ratings — published 2009
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as circus)
avg rating 3.78 — 57,992 ratings — published 2014
Queen of the Air: A True Story of Love and Tragedy at the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as circus)
avg rating 3.69 — 961 ratings — published 2013
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as circus)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,077 ratings — published 2011
Harley in the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,692 ratings — published 2020
Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,125 ratings — published 2000
A Son of the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 21,618 ratings — published 1994
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 18,307 ratings — published 2024
The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,002 ratings — published 2015
That Time I Joined the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,032 ratings — published 2013
If I Ran the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,040 ratings — published 1956
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as circus)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,982 ratings — published 1997
Circus Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as circus)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,360 ratings — published
Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus – An Unforgettable Memoir of Childhood Fantasy and Clown Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as circus)
avg rating 3.76 — 323 ratings — published 1995
“Yet not content with merely depicting itself as educational, the circus menagerie has also jumped on the conservation bandwagon, claiming that its efforts in captive breeding will ultimately help save endangered species from extinction. But like all circus illusions, this one too is both tenuous and contradictory and does not bear up to further scrutiny. Indeed, wary of potential public interest in the release of their animals into the wild, circus owners and their animal trainers are the first to admit to the impracticalities of re-introduction, partly on the grounds that their animals have lost their natural instincts — though they hasten to add that the creatures retain enough of their innate wildness to be “educational” in the ring.”
― The Rose-Tinted Menagerie
― The Rose-Tinted Menagerie
“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has ended by believing that he understands them. All he means by this is that he is able to rely on certain reflex actions which he himself has implanted in them. He will flatter himself at times on the grasp of animal psychology which has brought him the love of the dog and the purr of the cat; and on the strength of such assumptions he approaches the beasts of the jungle. The old tag about nature being an open book is just not true. What nature offers on a first examination may appear to be simple but it is never as simple as it appears.”
― Jungle, Be Gentle
― Jungle, Be Gentle
