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Sideshow Books
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American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 587 ratings — published 2005
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,711,946 ratings — published 2006
Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 73,849 ratings — published 1989
When the Tides Held the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 11,730 ratings — published 2025
The Tattooed Lady: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 181 ratings — published 2009
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
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avg rating 4.07 — 254,228 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,114,034 ratings — published 2011
Freak Like Me (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 126 ratings — published 1995
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 327 ratings — published 1976
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 137 ratings — published 1951
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 915 ratings — published 2006
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities: A Compendium of the Odd, the Bizarre, and the Unexpected (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sideshow)
avg rating 3.77 — 465 ratings — published 1997
The Friend of the Family (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,419 ratings — published 2026
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 17,381 ratings — published 2024
The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 66 ratings — published
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 6,447 ratings — published 1999
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 293 ratings — published 1988
Jay's Journal of Anomalies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 220 ratings — published 2001
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 72 ratings — published 2005
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 470 ratings — published 1986
Charm & Other Illusions (The Invisible Circus, #2)
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avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,552 ratings — published 2015
Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.89 — 524 ratings — published 2021
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.04 — 67 ratings — published
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 42 ratings — published 1953
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,417 ratings — published 1946
My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 114 ratings — published 1984
The Elephant Man (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,917 ratings — published 1980
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 22,218 ratings — published 2009
Chang and Eng (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 2,075 ratings — published 2000
Freaks: the Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 46 ratings — published 2006
Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published 1998
The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 158 ratings — published 2000
Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 22 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 3,976 ratings — published 2003
Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 41 ratings — published 2001
The Mystery and Lore of Monsters - With Accounts Of Some Giants, Dwarfs And Prodigies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 34 ratings — published 1930
Human Oddities: A Book of Nature's Anomalies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 1987
The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 70 ratings — published 1999
Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film (Creation Cinema Collection)
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avg rating 3.76 — 42 ratings — published 1995
Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 335 ratings — published 2008
Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 2005
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,497 ratings — published 2013
Carny Sideshows: Weird Wonders of the Midway (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 20 ratings — published 2010
Carny Folk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 119 ratings — published 2005
Secrets of the Sideshows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 187 ratings — published 2005
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 108 ratings — published 2001
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 149 ratings — published 1996
Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 47 ratings — published 2010
Double Jack (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2011
“And any room that I enter may become a sideshow tent where I must take my place upon a rickety old bench on the verge of collapse. Even now the Showman stands before my eyes. His stiff red hair moves a little toward one shoulder, as if he is going to turn his gaze upon me, and moves back again; then his head moves a little toward the other shoulder in this never-ending game of horrible peek-a-boo. I can only sit and wait, knowing that one day he will turn full around, step down from his stage, and claim me for the abyss I have always feared. Perhaps then I will discover what it was I did - what any of us did - to deserve this fate.”
― Teatro Grottesco
― Teatro Grottesco
“All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything that we supposedly live by and supposedly die by — whether it's religious scriptures or makeshift slogans — all of it is show business. The rise and fall of empires — show business. Science, philosophy, all of the disciplines under the sun, and even the sun itself, as well as all those other clumps of matter wobbling about in the blackness up there —' he said to me, pointing out the window beside the coffee-shop booth in which we sat, 'show business, show business, show business.' 'And what about dreams?' I asked, thinking I might have hit upon an exception to his dogmatic view, or at least one that he would accept as such. 'You mean the dreams of the sort we are having at this moment or the ones we have when we're fortunate enough to sleep?”
― Teatro Grottesco
― Teatro Grottesco
