20 Big Top Books

Step up, step up for some amazing books set at the circus!

What do you think of, when you think of the circus? A place of fun and whimsy, or exploitation and a seedy underbelly? However you feel, you're sure to find some big adventures under the Big Tops in these books.

1. Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

2. Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

3. The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

Robert Hough

4. Gauntlet of Fear

David Cargill

5. Tipping The Velvet

Sarah Waters

6. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

Melanie Benjamin

7. The Lady and the Lionheart

Joanne Bischof

8. Cirkus

Patti Frazee

9. The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff

10. Menagerie

Rachel Vincent

11. The Circus in Winter

Cathy Day

12. Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti

Genevieve Valentine, Kiri Moth (Illus)

13. Pantomime

Laura Lam

14. The Winter Ground

Catriona McPherson

15. Circus

Alistair MacLean

16. Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

17. The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

18. The Gracekeepers

Kirsty Logan

19. Goblin

Ever Dundas

20. The Hourglass Factory

Lucy Ribchester