Motivated by well known results in low-dimensional topology, we introduce and study
a topology on the set CO(G) of all left-invariant circular orders on a fixed countable and
discrete group G. CO(G) contains as a closed subspace LO(G), the space of all
left-invariant linear orders of G, as first topologized by Sikora. We use the compactness
of these spaces to show the sets of non-linearly and non-circularly orderable finitely
presented groups are recursively enumerable. We describe the action of Aut(G) on CO(G) and
relate it to results of Koberda regarding the action on LO(G). We then study two families
of circularly orderable groups: finitely generated abelian groups, and free products of
circularly orderable groups. For finitely generated abelian groups A, we use a
classification of elements of CO(A) to describe the homeomorphism type of the space CO(A),
and to show that Aut(A) acts faithfully on the subspace of circular orders which are not
linear. We define and characterize Archimedean circular orders, in analogy with linear
Archimedean orders. We describe explicit examples of circular orders on free products of
circularly orderable groups, and prove a result about the abundance of orders on free
products. Whenever possible, we prove and interpret our results from a dynamical
perspective.