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A Modest Proposal

Abbie Hoffman

Aimee Semple McPherson

Alan Sokal

Anarchaeology

Boston Tea Party

Bridey Murphy

Ooooh. Reïncarnation.

Bubbles

Cardiff Giant

Cold Fusion and Fringe Physics

Commerce Jamming

Counterfeiting

Crop Circles

Dario Fo

You know he won the Nobel Prize for literature, don't you?

Deception

An interesting look at how we're all susceptible to believing things that aren't true and seeing things that aren't there because of the way evolution designed our brains.

Discordianism

Disinformation and Politics

This was a good one. It was cooked up as a dry parody of soulless military policy by members of the U.S. left wing, but today you'll most often find it referred to by people from the fringe right wing in the U.S., some of who consider it to be documented evidence of government conspiracy.

Similar to "Iron Mountain," this situationist provocation was written from a right-wing perspective, advocating a strategic alliance with the Communist Party to salvage capitalism.

Emperor Norton

A "historical novel" version of Norton's life - alas, all of the straight biographies are out of print.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions And the Madness of Crowds

Fantastic book - read it now while the dot-com bubble is still fresh in your mind.

Fake Holocaustees

Fake Poets (Andreas Karavis)

Ain't no Andreas Karavis

Fake Poets (Araki Yasusada)

Ain't no such Araki Yasusada

Fake Poets (Misc.)

Nope, there ain't no Ern Malley

There ain't no Spectrists, either

Fake Poets (Ossian)

And Ossian's a figment of James MacPherson's imagination

Fake Poets (Tho. Rowley)

No Thomas Rowley either

Forgery

Fraud

Graffiti

Hakim Bey

Hoax Collections

Before there was a web, there was no sniggle.net. The next best thing was MacDougall's encyclopedic work on hoaxes. This is a fantastic book - currently out-of-print but check here for second-hand copies.

This is a great book - interviews with pranksters like Alan Abel, Jello Biafra and Abbie Hoffman about their art.

Howard Hughes Autobiography

The story of the "Autobiography of Howard Hughes" hoax, by its perpetrator.

Impostors

Too bad this book is so pricey - it's the only one out there about George Psalmanazar and I want to learn more about him.

Jesters and Clowns

I love this book. It's my favorite of the "for Beginners" series. Despite its disarming "comic book"-like format, it's dense with information tying a common thread through trickster mythology, jesters, clowns, and holy fools.

Joseph Smith and Mormonism

Lady Hester Stanhope

Mark Dery

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

Medicine

Michael Moore

Miscellany

Not originally advertised as fiction.

Monkeywrenching

This is the how-to companion book to "The Monkey Wrench Gang" - full of information on disabling vehicles, toppling billboards, spiking trees and that sort of thing.

Music

Negativland - these are the guys who invented the term "culture jamming."

Nat Tate

Newage

Opal Whiteley

P.T. Barnum

Paul is Dead

Pirate Radio

Placebos

I really liked this one - it's a collection of articles from a bunch of authors investigating the placebo effect. It turns out that although medical science acknowledges and relies upon the placebo effect, nobody really understands why it happens or the conditions under which it will or won't take place. How do you design experiments to test the placebo effect if you don't have a placebo to test your placebo against?

Polly Baker

Practical Jokes

Prank Letter Writing

Prank Phone Calls

Princess Caraboo

Propaganda

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

A conspiracy theory inside of a conspiracy theory masquerading as a conspiracy

Psychological Warfare

Radionics

Abrams was the talented, bright, nutty quack who founded the discipline of Radionics.

Religion (Miscellany)

Allegedly a true, eyewitness account of the evil that lurks within nunnery walls.

Religion (Urantia)

Revenge

Sabotage

IWW - that's "International Workers of the World" a.k.a. "Wobblies"

Scientology

Situationism

Street/Guerrilla Theater

Wow. Gene Sharp has studied the various creative and nonviolent ways people have tried to battle for justice - often against violent foes and often, indeed, successfully. This book is the second part of a three-book examination of nonviolent action and catalogs many of these methods.

Subgenius

The Trickster

Urban Legends

Brunvand is the king of urban legend research.

Vassula Ryden

Vassula Ryden takes dictation from an angel of God in "original handwriting" - in which the angel guides her hand while she stands aside. She's got a lot of fans in the Catholic church, though the Pope would rather she go away.

War of the Worlds Broadcast

Weird Science

This was a fun book. Gardner is an engaging writer, and the tension between his frustration towards scientific quackery and his obvious fondness towards the quacks makes for good reading.

William S. Burroughs

Sigh. Last I checked, this one was out of print.