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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
181 books — 26 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

Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. AbagnaleThe Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark SealCan You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee IsraelBad Blood by John CarreyrouBunk by Kevin Young
Real life hoaxes, frauds, schemes, and imposters
47 books — 16 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

Three Cups of Deceit by Jon KrakauerThe Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoySarah by J.T. LeRoyBunk by Kevin YoungHarold's End by J.T. LeRoy
Hoaxes And Publicity Stunts
43 books — 8 voters
Love to Last a Lifetime by Susan MeachenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyOne Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady BabchenkoJihad! by Tom CarewThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley
Authors Who Faked Their Own Death
10 books — 6 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
American Survivor by Debbie HightowerBlood on Their Hands by Bob BrinkBad Science by Ben GoldacreThe Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience by Michael ShermerWeird Weapons of World War II by Christopher Middleton
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Non-Fiction
102 books — 3 voters

Look Out, It's April Fools' Day by Frank ModellApril fool by Mary Blount ChristianApril Fool's Day by Bryce CourtenayFools Rush In by Celia KennedyAddison the April Fool's Day Fairy by Daisy Meadows
April Fool's Day
57 books — 1 voter
Dreadful California by Lucius BeebeThe Bank of America of Louisiana by Jim MorrisonSmith and Schmidt in Africa, Hottentot Blue-Book by C.M. SeyppelFeodor Vladimir Larrovitch - An Appreciation of His Life and ... by William George JordanBilltry by Mary Kyle Dallas
Super Cherries
100 books — 1 voter

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