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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 — 584 ratings — published 2005
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,705,932 ratings — published 2006
Geek Love (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 73,321 ratings — published 1989
When the Tides Held the Moon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 10,101 ratings — published 2025
The Tattooed Lady: A History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 179 ratings — published 2009
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as sideshow)
avg rating 4.07 — 253,322 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,104,940 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 4.04 — 325 ratings — published 1976
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 134 ratings — published 1951
The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sideshow)
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 — 463 ratings — published 1997
The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,978 ratings — published 2024
The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.20 — 66 ratings — published
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 6,427 ratings — published 1999
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.89 — 291 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)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.33 — 72 ratings — published 2005
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 468 ratings — published 1986
Charm & Other Illusions (The Invisible Circus, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published
Church of Marvels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,536 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 — 519 ratings — published 2021
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sideshow and Other Carnival Curiosities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.05 — 66 ratings — published
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.33 — 42 ratings — published 1953
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,347 ratings — published 1946
My G-String Mother: At Home and Backstage with Gypsy Rose Lee (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.82 — 114 ratings — published 1984
The Elephant Man (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,911 ratings — published 1980
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 22,108 ratings — published 2009
Chang and Eng (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.30 — 2,070 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)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 1998
The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.85 — 158 ratings — published 2000
Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.71 — 21 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,964 ratings — published 2003
Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.60 — 40 ratings — published 2001
The Mystery and Lore of Monsters - With Accounts Of Some Giants, Dwarfs And Prodigies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.50 — 34 ratings — published 1930
Human Oddities: A Book of Nature's Anomalies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
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)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.67 — 334 ratings — published 2008
Freaks & Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 2005
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,492 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 — 118 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)
by (shelved 1 time as sideshow)
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
Half-sick of Shadows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2009
“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
“Seriously, no. Go be weird somewhere else.” I want people to stop
hating me, not treat me like a sideshow.”
― How to Hang a Witch
hating me, not treat me like a sideshow.”
― How to Hang a Witch
