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Hoaxes Books
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The Museum of Hoaxes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 320 ratings — published 2002
The Fairy Ring (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,061 ratings — published 2012
The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 328 ratings — published 2012
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 26,560 ratings — published 2014
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,225 ratings — published 1997
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 790 ratings — published 2005
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,882 ratings — published 2021
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 37,958 ratings — published 2018
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 680 ratings — published 2018
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 543 ratings — published 2008
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 5,046 ratings — published 1841
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 715 ratings — published 1999
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,157 ratings — published 2012
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 5,211 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 5,773 ratings — published 2002
The Ern Malley Affair (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 64 ratings — published 2003
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 79,950 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 169 ratings — published 2004
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. – An Entertaining Essential for the Misinformation Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 560 ratings — published 2006
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,472 ratings — published 2021
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 291,321 ratings — published 1971
Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
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avg rating 4.03 — 172 ratings — published
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 3,911 ratings — published 2020
The Miranda Obsession (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.30 — 43 ratings — published 2011
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.18 — 1,081 ratings — published 2017
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.24 — 4,365 ratings — published 2008
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 90,734 ratings — published 1973
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 133 ratings — published 2014
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 289 ratings — published 1948
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 35,628 ratings — published 2019
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 1,904 ratings — published 2014
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 174 ratings — published 2014
Before the Deluge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1965
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.37 — 204 ratings — published 2010
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 1,213 ratings — published 2021
You Have A Very Soft Voice, Susan: A Shocking True Story of Internet Stalking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.56 — 450 ratings — published 2019
Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 20 ratings — published
Famous Impostors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 100 ratings — published 1910
The Amok Sourcebook: The Extremes of Information in Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 395 ratings — published 2009
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History (Volume 246) (Carleton Library Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 2018
With intent to deceive: Frauds famous and infamous, (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 8,485 ratings — published 2022
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.30 — 23 ratings — published 1996
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 232 ratings — published 2008
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 68 ratings — published 2000
The Spectacle of Illusion: Magic, the paranormal & the complicity of the mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 66 ratings — published 2019
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.16 — 453 ratings — published 2008
“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”
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― Benito Mussolini”
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“There will always be a war between light and darkness, between science and superstition, between education and ignorance. Ignorance is easier. It requires no study. Faith is the enemy of thought.”
― The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
― The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
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