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Hoaxes

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences, and April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes. ...more

Hoaxes Books

The Museum of Hoaxes
The Fairy Ring
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
The Coming of the Fairies
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Martian Ghost Centaur
It Came From the Sky
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
330 books — 167 voters
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Sc... by Marco BerettaMountebanks and Medicasters by Piero GambacciniBad Blood by John CarreyrouPain Killer by Barry MeierTalking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
•Uptown Suckers
172 books — 5 voters

The Cottingley Secret by Hazel GaynorThe Cottingley Fairies by Ana SenderThe Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan DoyleCottingley by Alison LittlewoodThe Cottingley Cuckoo by A.J. Elwood
Cottingley Fairies
14 books — 10 voters
Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksA Million Little Pieces by James FreySurviving With Wolves by Misha DefonsecaJay's Journal by Beatrice SparksThe Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Dale
Fake Autobiographies
39 books — 23 voters

Death, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeHype by Gabrielle BluestoneDon't Be a Victim! by Michael ChesbroHow To Become A Professional Con Artist by Dennis M. MarlockThe Con Artist Handbook by Joel Levy
Nonfiction books about frauds, hoaxes, scams and con games
84 books — 19 voters
Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAmerican Survivor by Debbie HightowerGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Ravenous Mother - Two Gatherers by J.R. KendiroDecryption Gambit by Doug Collins
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Non-Fiction
105 books — 6 voters


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Philosophy
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Conspiracy Theories
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Quotes Tagged “Hoaxes”

Ronald Knox
“ M. Piff-Pouff's verdict is thus expressed : 'Sherlockholmes has not at all fallen from the Reichenbach, it is Vatson who has fallen from the pinnacle of his mendacity. ...more ”
― Ronald Knox, Essays in Satire
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Nancy Rubin Stuart
“ Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later. ...more ”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
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Deception in Plain Sight
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