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
Wrong 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 MertzTechnology of the Gods by David Hatcher Childress
Snarfeology
181 books — 5 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

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

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
8 books — 6 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
330 books — 167 voters


Nancy Rubin Stuart
Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later. ...more
Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Benito Mussolini
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini. ― Benito Mussolini ...more
Benito Mussolini

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