Category
page 1Written fiction presented as fact
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
1838 novel by Edgar Allan Poe
Great Moon Hoax
fake newspaper article series
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976 novel by Alex Haley
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World
Mother Night
novel by Kurt Vonnegut
The Painted Bird
book by Jerzy Kosinski
Eaters of the Dead
1976 novel by Michael Crichton
Jacquotte Delahaye
supposed French pirate
The Teachings of Don Juan
1968 memoir by Carlos Castañeda
The Balloon-Hoax
newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, originally presented as a true story, about Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 3 days in a gas balloon; later revealed as a hoax
Go ask Alice
1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks
The Education of Little Tree
1976 novel by Forrest Carter
The Third Eye
work by Lobsang Rampa
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years
book by Misha Defonseca
A Million Little Pieces
2003 novel by James Frey
A Rape on Campus
discredited Rolling Stone article