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The Coming of the Fairies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.29 — 407 ratings — published 1921
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.09 — 98 ratings — published 1985
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Martian Ghost Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.61 — 573 ratings — published 2021
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,790 ratings — published 2020
It Came From the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.91 — 614 ratings — published 2020
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,688 ratings — published 2002
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.63 — 543 ratings — published 2008
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 2.70 — 94 ratings — published 2009
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,794 ratings — published 2011
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.75 — 24 ratings — published 1944
The First Phone Call from Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.79 — 71,910 ratings — published 2013
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.60 — 8,268 ratings — published 2013
The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.53 — 328 ratings — published 2012
The Songs of Bilitis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.77 — 440 ratings — published 1894
Michelle Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 2.56 — 754 ratings — published 1980
The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.83 — 137,813 ratings — published 1977
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hoax)
avg rating 3.53 — 275 ratings — published 1984
Covid-19: The Greatest Hoax in History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.00 — 14 ratings — published
The Case for Israel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,702 ratings — published 2003
The Faith Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.20 — 840 ratings — published 1987
Three Black Swans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,889 ratings — published 2010
The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,725 ratings — published 2002
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.37 — 204 ratings — published 2010
Memoirs of a Cavalier (The World's Classics)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.24 — 92 ratings — published 1720
The Crystal Skull: The story of the mystery, myth, and magic of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull discovered in a lost Mayan city during a search for Atlantis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.35 — 37 ratings — published 1973
Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.18 — 274 ratings — published 2016
Creating Chistianity: A Weapon Of Ancient Rome (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.58 — 77 ratings — published 2018
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.94 — 151,008 ratings — published 2009
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.60 — 214 ratings — published
Extra Nutty! Even More Letters from a Nut! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.91 — 482 ratings — published 2000
Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,629 ratings — published 2024
Loch Ness Uncovered: Media, Misinformation, and the Greatest Monster Hoax of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.87 — 115 ratings — published
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,215 ratings — published 2021
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,018 ratings — published 2014
The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul's Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.92 — 139 ratings — published
All That's Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.05 — 813 ratings — published
A Book of Fifty Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 1920
The Holocaust Hoax Exposed (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.40 — 53 ratings — published 2012
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,281 ratings — published 1878
Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America Resulting in the Discovery of the Idolatrous City of Iximaya, in an Unexplored Region; and the Possession ... L. Stevens, Esq., and Other Travellers. (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1850
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,004,296 ratings — published 2023
False Value (Rivers of London, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.10 — 26,427 ratings — published 2020
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.69 — 262,939 ratings — published 2003
Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,978 ratings — published 1987
Anaruk, chłopiec z Grenlandii (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 2.88 — 1,155 ratings — published 1937
The Necronomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.20 — 3,154 ratings — published 1977
The Spectra Hoax (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1966
A Head Full of Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.78 — 105,093 ratings — published 2015
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoax)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,956 ratings — published 2022
“Satan and witches. If they admit they are in league with him, then they are disobeying him (since he forbids them to admit to being witches) and they are spared. Those who protest their innocence are burned.
A bus driver who falsely claims to have been assaulted is found guilty of wasting police time. A police spokesman declares: 'We already have so many problems with genuine violent crime. What are things coming to if we have to deal with the fake kind?' It is for this reason that a fake hold-up was in the past punished more severely than a real one, for faking evil is even more serious than evil. The hoax is evil raised to the second power.
And faking good? Isn't a fake 'good deed' worse than a bad one?”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
A bus driver who falsely claims to have been assaulted is found guilty of wasting police time. A police spokesman declares: 'We already have so many problems with genuine violent crime. What are things coming to if we have to deal with the fake kind?' It is for this reason that a fake hold-up was in the past punished more severely than a real one, for faking evil is even more serious than evil. The hoax is evil raised to the second power.
And faking good? Isn't a fake 'good deed' worse than a bad one?”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“Woe to any climate denier who called climate change a hoax when she was nearby.”
― What Lurks Below
― What Lurks Below
