Looking for books about the Circus.....?

Cirque de Freak? It's the only circus-related book I know, and it's pretty good. They're even making a movie about it.

Hope this helps :)

EDIT: I forgot about Water for Elephants! That book is amazing! Cirque de Freak is good, but this book makes it look like Twilight - such a great book, give it a go.

Its Geek love. super yet twisted!! Geek Love is a different by Katherine Dunn and primary printed in 1989. that's the tale of a vacationing circus run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his spouse, "Crystal" Lil. whilst Al's circus starts off to fail, the couple devise an concept to reproduce their very own freak tutor, applying different drugs and radioactive fabric to change the genes of their toddlers. Who emerges are Arturo ("Arty"), a boy with flippers for hands and ft; Electra ("Elly") and Iphigenia ("Iphy") the Siamese Twins; Olympia ("Oly") the hunchback albino dwarf; and Fortunato ("Chick"), the conventional looking telekinetic infant of the kinfolk -- besides as particularly some nevertheless-borns saved preserved in jars in a undeniable wing of the freak tutor. the tale is informed by Oly in this sort of a different written for her daughter Miranda.

"Geek Love" by Katherine Dunne is a great novel from the perspective of a hunchback albino dwarf whose whole family comprises a circus' freak show. Her parents deliberately pollute their bodies with chemicals so their offspring will be born with grotesque physical defects, since producing "freaks" is the family business. It's definitely got dark parts, but it's also funny and touching, especially since the narrator is a disappointment to her family for having "ordinary" defects. I'll post a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Love-Novel-Katherine-Du...

I hear "Water for Elephants" is good... never read it but it's on my list.