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Circus Books
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The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 692 times as circus)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,143,614 ratings — published 2011
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 655 times as circus)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,729,735 ratings — published 2006
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as circus)
avg rating 3.97 — 991,133 ratings — published 2016
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,590 ratings — published 1989
The Book of Speculation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as circus)
avg rating 3.60 — 39,364 ratings — published 2015
Kiss an Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as circus)
avg rating 4.16 — 71,429 ratings — published 1996
Nights at the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as circus)
avg rating 3.87 — 15,293 ratings — published 1984
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as circus)
avg rating 3.89 — 161,518 ratings — published 1962
Circus of Wonders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as circus)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,554 ratings — published 2021
Circus Mirandus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,998 ratings — published 2015
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 520,518 ratings — published 2018
The Orphan's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as circus)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,100 ratings — published 2017
Pantomime (Micah Grey, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as circus)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,594 ratings — published 2013
The Life She Was Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as circus)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,250 ratings — published 2017
The Circus Train (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as circus)
avg rating 4.01 — 25,741 ratings — published 2022
The Failed Audition (Circus Is Family #1)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 4.20 — 10,959 ratings — published 2014
Girl on a Wire (Cirque American, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,646 ratings — published 2014
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as circus)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,248 ratings — published 2011
Finale (Caraval, #3)
by (shelved 51 times as circus)
avg rating 4.12 — 433,698 ratings — published 2019
The Ladies of the Secret Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as circus)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,312 ratings — published 2021
The Circus In Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as circus)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,639 ratings — published 2004
Menagerie (Menagerie, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as circus)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,334 ratings — published 2015
Extraordinary Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as circus)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,252 ratings — published 2014
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as circus)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,889 ratings — published 2000
Daughter of the Burning City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,203 ratings — published 2017
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as circus)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,037 ratings — published 2020
Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2)
by (shelved 39 times as circus)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,204 ratings — published 2015
The Gracekeepers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as circus)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,560 ratings — published 2015
The Immortal Circus: Act One (Cirque des Immortels, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,097 ratings — published 2012
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as circus)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,614 ratings — published 2015
The Final Confession of Mabel Stark (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,042 ratings — published 2001
The First Bright Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as circus)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,724 ratings — published 2023
Wonder Show (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as circus)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,827 ratings — published 2012
The Contortionist (Harrow Faire, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,812 ratings — published 2020
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as circus)
avg rating 4.27 — 218,554 ratings — published 2012
The Weight of Feathers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,559 ratings — published 2015
The Circus Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as circus)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,641 ratings — published 2009
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as circus)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,193 ratings — published 2014
Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as circus)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,366 ratings — published 2000
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 — 962 ratings — published 2013
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as circus)
avg rating 3.72 — 11,129 ratings — published 2011
A Son of the Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as circus)
avg rating 3.67 — 21,678 ratings — published 1994
Harley in the Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as circus)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,697 ratings — published 2020
That Time I Joined the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as circus)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,032 ratings — published 2013
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 3.92 — 18,971 ratings — published 2024
The Farmer and the Clown (The Farmer Books)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,020 ratings — published 2015
If I Ran the Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as circus)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,056 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 — 13,056 ratings — published 1997
À La Folie (Cirque Du Désir, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as circus)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,902 ratings — published 2024
Circus Creeps (Sinner's Sideshow, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as circus)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,623 ratings — published
“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
“You knew what he was," Victor said. "From the beginning. I watched you know it. And you went in anyway. And you were hurt in exactly the way you knew you were going to be hurt." He paused. "I find that interesting."
I set down the pins I was holding.
Very carefully.
"What you find interesting," I said, "is that I did something self-destructive with full awareness. What you're not asking is why."
"I know why," he said.
"Do you?"
"Because knowing the ending doesn't protect you from wanting the middle." He said it the way he said everything — without heat, without judgment, a man reading a specimen note aloud. "You knew it would end badly and you wanted the part before badly, badly enough to accept the cost.”
― Chasing A Circus
I set down the pins I was holding.
Very carefully.
"What you find interesting," I said, "is that I did something self-destructive with full awareness. What you're not asking is why."
"I know why," he said.
"Do you?"
"Because knowing the ending doesn't protect you from wanting the middle." He said it the way he said everything — without heat, without judgment, a man reading a specimen note aloud. "You knew it would end badly and you wanted the part before badly, badly enough to accept the cost.”
― Chasing A Circus
