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
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
The Songs of Bilitis
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
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
Collected Poems
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
It Came From the Sky
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
43 books — 24 voters
Soaring Stones by Dan CrayWrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsForbidden Archeology by Michael A. CremoThe Wine Dark Sea, Homer's Epic of the North Atlantic by Henriette MertzThe Mystic Symbol by Henriette Mertz
Snarfeology
183 books — 6 voters

Death, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeBad Blood by John CarreyrouPlaying Dead by Elizabeth  GreenwoodThe Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLeanThe Big Short by Michael   Lewis
Scams, Scandals and Frauds
183 books — 27 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


Bruce Gilley
“ For the past 25 years, the idea of the Congo has been closely linked in the Western imagination to the 1998 book King Leopold’s Ghost by the American journalist Adam Hochschild. The book is widely assigned in high schools and colleges, and it regularly tops best-seller lists in colonial, African, and Western history. Hochschild has become a sort of king of the Congo, or at least of its history. The book is reflexively cited by reputable scholars in their footnotes any time they wish to assert th ...more ”
― Bruce Gilley

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― Iwan Esjepe

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