•Uptown Suckers
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Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
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Marco Beretta
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 2. 
Mountebanks and Medicasters: A History of Italian Charlatans from the Middle Ages to the Present
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Piero Gambaccini
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 3. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,372 ratings 4. 
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'Iron Mask': The story of Harry Bensley's "Walking round the world" hoax
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Steve Holland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 4. 
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
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Malcolm Gladwell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,297 ratings 4. 
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
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Barry Meier
4.02 avg rating — 2,773 ratings 8. 
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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Maria Konnikova
3.66 avg rating — 5,849 ratings 8. 
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
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Adam Sisman
3.44 avg rating — 378 ratings 11. 
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century 4.01 avg rating — 33,620 ratings
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The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
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Joe Conason
4.15 avg rating — 682 ratings 13. 
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Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
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Yepoka Yeebo
3.79 avg rating — 1,267 ratings 16. 
Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris
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Craig Abbott
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
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Tori Telfer
3.71 avg rating — 4,067 ratings 
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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
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Ben Mezrich
3.93 avg rating — 26,413 ratings 19. 
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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Dean Jobb
3.87 avg rating — 2,200 ratings 
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter
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Mark Seal
3.85 avg rating — 5,754 ratings 22. 
A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
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Geoffrey C. Ward
3.73 avg rating — 291 ratings 
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The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue: Literature, Translation and Violence in Early Modern Ireland
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Patricia Palmer
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 28. 
The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money
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John Thomson
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 28. 
Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes
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Laci Mosley
4.03 avg rating — 886 ratings 30. 
Keeping Carnies Honest: Police Officer's Field Guide to Carnival Game Inspections
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Lindsay Smith
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age
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Annie Reed
3.80 avg rating — 293 ratings 33. 
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The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
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Mark Chiusano
3.78 avg rating — 522 ratings 36. 
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Thrilling Thieves: Liars, Cheats, and Cons Who Changed History
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Brianna DuMont
3.79 avg rating — 114 ratings 36. 
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
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Bill Shaffer
3.60 avg rating — 1,716 ratings 39. 
Anthology of Third-World Email Scams: Learn from the best and worst! it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Destruction of Mephisto's Greatest Web: Or, All Grafts Laid Bare
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H.K. James
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 42. 
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following 3.33 avg rating — 1,179 ratings
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
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Peter Watson
3.85 avg rating — 770 ratings 46. 
The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry: An Examination of the Faker's Methods and Processes with Some Observations on Their Detection
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George R. Scott
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 46. 
Alligator Blood: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the High-rolling Whiz-kid who Controlled Online Poker's Billions
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James Leighton
3.82 avg rating — 178 ratings 48. 
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Healing Words: The Printed Handbills of Early Modern London Quacks
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Roberta Mullini
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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In Bed with Wall Street: How Bankers, Regulators and Politicians Conspire to Cripple Our Global Economy
by:
Larry Doyle
3.82 avg rating — 45 ratings 53. 
The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects
by:
Olive Logan
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 53. 
To Set the Record Straight: The Break-In, the Tapes, the Conspirators, the Pardon
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John J. Sirica
3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings 
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The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
by:
Alex Palmer
3.78 avg rating — 567 ratings 
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My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artist
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T.D. Thornton
3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings 59. 
Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century
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Jeff Forret
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 59. 
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
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Anthony M. Amore
3.54 avg rating — 1,174 ratings 61. 
Fraud: The Amazing Career of Dr. Savundra
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Jon Connell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 61. 
Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man
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David Howard
3.82 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa
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Steven Press
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 65. 
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
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Beau Donelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,317 ratings 67. 
Email Hoaxes: Form, function, genre ecology (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
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Theresa Heyd
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 67. 
A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
by:
Blake Ellis
3.31 avg rating — 378 ratings 
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Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
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Sarah Weinman
3.55 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by:
Tony Tetro
3.76 avg rating — 1,949 ratings 
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Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy
by:
Brian Stelter
4.06 avg rating — 1,067 ratings 77. 
The Devil and the Grafter; and how they work together to deceive, swindle and destroy mankind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder
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Bruce Lincoln
3.75 avg rating — 75 ratings 79. 
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Malingering and Deception in Adolescents: Assessing Credibility in Clinical and Forensic Settings
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Joseph T. McCann
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 81. 
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Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
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Andrew S. Weiss
3.88 avg rating — 997 ratings 
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All the Lies They Did Not Tell: The True Story of Satanic Panic in an Italian Community
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Pablo Trincia
3.88 avg rating — 6,654 ratings 87. 
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The Spider and the Fly: Or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, by One Who Knows it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age
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Fred Pearce
4.03 avg rating — 225 ratings 
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Bloodsuckers: The life and cons of Jeremy and Amy Crawford
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Randy Rush
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 94. 
Dead Wrong: The Continuing Story of City of Lies, Corruption and Cover-Up in the Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigation
by:
Randall Sullivan
4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings 96. 
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
by:
Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings 
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,061 ratings 