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

The Museum of Hoaxes
The Fairy Ring
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
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
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
Bad Blood by John CarreyrouPlaying Dead by Elizabeth  GreenwoodThe Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLeanThe Big Short by Michael   LewisThe Spider Network by David Enrich
Scams, Scandals and Frauds
180 books — 19 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
327 books — 143 voters

The Lazlo Letters by Don NovelloThe Timewaster Letters by Robin CooperIdiot Letters by Paul RosaLetters from a Nut by Ted L. NancyThe Life and Death of Rochester Sneath by Humphry Berkeley
Joke Letters
9 books — 7 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
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Sc... by Marco BerettaMountebanks and Medicasters by Piero GambacciniBad Blood by John CarreyrouTwenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World. ... by Clifton R. WooldridgePain Killer by Barry Meier
•Uptown Suckers
171 books — 4 voters


Jean Baudrillard
Satan and witches. If they admit they are in league with him, then they are disobeying him (since he forbids them to admit to being witches) and they are spared. Those who protest their innocence are burned. A bus driver who falsely claims to have been assaulted is found guilty of wasting police time. A police spokesman declares: 'We already have so many problems with genuine violent crime. What are things coming to if we have to deal with the fake kind?' It is for this reason that a fake hold- ...more
Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

Donald Firesmith
Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.
Donald G. Firesmith, What Lurks Below

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