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
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
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

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
329 books — 149 voters
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

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
Love to Last a Lifetime by Susan MeachenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyJihad! by Tom CarewOne Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady BabchenkoThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley
Authors Who Faked Their Own Death
10 books — 6 voters


Djayawarman Alamprabu
An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history. ...more
Djayawarman Alamprabu, Feared Intellectualism

One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance. Yes, money. Whether it be women, minority groups etc. Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax
Magnus Nwagu Amudi

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