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Amnesia Books
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Repeat (Larsen Bros, #1)
by (shelved 234 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,439 ratings — published 2019
Before I Go to Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.90 — 365,644 ratings — published 2011
Forget Me Not (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 163 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 12,653 ratings — published 2019
Someone to Watch Over Me (Bow Street Runners, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,634 ratings — published 1998
What Alice Forgot (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.07 — 509,242 ratings — published 2010
God of War (Legacy of Gods, #6)
by (shelved 131 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.08 — 90,563 ratings — published 2024
All the Lies (Lies & Truths Duet, #1)
by (shelved 129 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,756 ratings — published 2020
Ruined Secrets (Perfectly Imperfect, #4)
by (shelved 127 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.75 — 53,392 ratings — published 2022
Remember Me? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.81 — 263,127 ratings — published 2008
Help Me Remember (Rose Canyon, #1)
by (shelved 122 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,901 ratings — published 2022
The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress (Anetakis Tycoons, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,084 ratings — published 2008
Until You (Westmoreland, #3)
by (shelved 115 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,391 ratings — published 1994
The Greek's Christmas Baby (Kouros Brothers Duo, #2; Greek Tycoons, #3)
by (shelved 114 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,835 ratings — published 2005
Say You Swear (Boys of Avix, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.26 — 239,457 ratings — published 2022
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,361,940 ratings — published 2014
Bittersweet Memories (Off-Limits, #4)
by (shelved 109 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,741 ratings — published 2022
Tempting the Bride (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 101 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,158 ratings — published 2012
Asher (Ashes & Embers, #6)
by (shelved 99 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,447 ratings — published 2020
Forgotten Sins (Sin Brothers, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,356 ratings — published 2013
Once More, My Darling Rogue (Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James, #2)
by (shelved 81 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,872 ratings — published 2014
Pieces of You (Missing Pieces, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,234 ratings — published 2020
Wait for Me (Against All Odds #2)
by (shelved 80 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.97 — 17,902 ratings — published 2011
Vow of Deception (Deception Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,156 ratings — published 2021
The Opportunist (Love Me with Lies, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,128 ratings — published 2011
The Darkest Hour (KGI, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,707 ratings — published 2010
The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband (Rokesbys, #2)
by (shelved 76 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.93 — 58,539 ratings — published 2017
All the Truths (Lies & Truths Duet, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.89 — 41,999 ratings — published 2020
Don't Look Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.09 — 35,152 ratings — published 2014
A Five-Minute Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,028 ratings — published 2019
Bought: The Greek's Baby (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,772 ratings — published 2009
Enticed by His Forgotten Lover (Pregnancy & Passion, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,814 ratings — published 2012
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.66 — 36,747 ratings — published 2007
Slightly Sinful (Bedwyn Saga, #5)
by (shelved 64 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,254 ratings — published 2004
What Remains (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,410 ratings — published 2016
A Kiss to Remember (Once Upon a Time, #3)
by (shelved 62 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,094 ratings — published 2001
A Lady's Code of Misconduct (Rules for the Reckless, #5)
by (shelved 60 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,639 ratings — published 2017
Tempestuous Reunion (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,022 ratings — published 1991
Loving a Lost Lord (Lost Lords, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,140 ratings — published 2009
The Devil's Arms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.55 — 535 ratings — published 1978
Regarding the Duke (Game of Dukes, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,294 ratings — published 2019
Forget Me Not (The Unforgettable Duet #1)
by (shelved 58 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,507 ratings — published 2018
The Sicilian's Mistress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,118 ratings — published 1999
Lost in Me (Here and Now, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,599 ratings — published 2014
White Lies (Rescues, #4)
by (shelved 56 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,973 ratings — published 1988
The Lost Fisherman (Fisherman, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,100 ratings — published 2021
Marchese's Forgotten Bride (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as amnesia)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,701 ratings — published 2009
Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels, #7)
by (shelved 54 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,294 ratings — published 2021
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,658,190 ratings — published 2009
Burying Water (Burying Water, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as amnesia)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,495 ratings — published 2014
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.”
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.”
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“This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.”
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
