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The '''Bibliography of Bullshit''' is Bullshitopedia's founding reading list: 50 books that document, analyze or practice deception. Each book has its own Library page with a summary and links into the [[Project:Taxonomy|taxonomy]].

Books are marked by '''role''': [[:Category:Library – Analysis|Analysis]] (studies deception) or [[:Category:Library – Primary source|Primary source]] (written by a practitioner). Some are also flagged as a [[:Category:Library – Specimen|Specimen]], meaning the work or its author has its own documented credibility problem.

Browse by domain: [[:Category:Library – Politics & Elections|Politics & Elections]] · [[:Category:Library – Health & Medicine|Health & Medicine]] · [[:Category:Library – Science & Environment|Science & Environment]] · [[:Category:Library – History|History]] · [[:Category:Library – Business, Finance & Scams|Business, Finance & Scams]] · [[:Category:Library – Technology & Media|Technology & Media]] · [[:Category:Library – Crime & Public Safety|Crime & Public Safety]] · [[:Category:Library – Culture, Religion & Society|Culture, Religion & Society]]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;"
! # !! Title !! Author !! Year !! Role !! Domains
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| 1 || ''[[Library:On Bullshit|On Bullshit]]'' || Harry G. Frankfurt || 2005 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society
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| 2 || ''[[Library:Calling Bullshit|Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World]]'' || Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West || 2020 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Technology & Media
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| 3 || ''[[Library:How to Lie with Statistics|How to Lie with Statistics]]'' || Darrell Huff || 1954 || Analysis · Specimen || Science & Environment
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| 4 || ''[[Library:The Demon-Haunted World|The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark]]'' || Carl Sagan || 1995 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Health & Medicine
|-
| 5 || ''[[Library:Merchants of Doubt|Merchants of Doubt]]'' || Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway || 2010 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Health & Medicine
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| 6 || ''[[Library:Bad Science|Bad Science]]'' || Ben Goldacre || 2008 || Analysis || Health & Medicine
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| 7 || ''[[Library:Bad Pharma|Bad Pharma]]'' || Ben Goldacre || 2012 || Analysis || Health & Medicine, Business, Finance & Scams
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| 8 || ''[[Library:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds|Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds]]'' || Charles Mackay || 1841 || Analysis · Specimen || History, Business, Finance & Scams
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| 9 || ''[[Library:Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science|Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science]]'' || Martin Gardner || 1952 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Health & Medicine
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| 10 || ''[[Library:Why People Believe Weird Things|Why People Believe Weird Things]]'' || Michael Shermer || 1997 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society, Science & Environment
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| 11 || ''[[Library:Manufacturing Consent|Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]'' || Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky || 1988 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
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| 12 || ''[[Library:Propaganda|Propaganda]]'' || Edward Bernays || 1928 || Primary source || Business, Finance & Scams, Politics & Elections
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| 13 || ''[[Library:Public Opinion|Public Opinion]]'' || Walter Lippmann || 1922 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
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| 14 || ''[[Library:The Hidden Persuaders|The Hidden Persuaders]]'' || Vance Packard || 1957 || Analysis · Specimen || Business, Finance & Scams, Technology & Media
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| 15 || ''[[Library:Amusing Ourselves to Death|Amusing Ourselves to Death]]'' || Neil Postman || 1985 || Analysis || Technology & Media, Politics & Elections
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| 16 || ''[[Library:Trust Me, I'm Lying|Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator]]'' || Ryan Holiday || 2012 || Primary source || Technology & Media
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| 17 || ''[[Library:The Misinformation Age|The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread]]'' || Cailin O'Connor & James Owen Weatherall || 2019 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Technology & Media
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| 18 || ''[[Library:Active Measures|Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare]]'' || Thomas Rid || 2020 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, History
|-
| 19 || ''[[Library:This Is Not Propaganda|This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality]]'' || Peter Pomerantsev || 2019 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
|-
| 20 || ''[[Library:Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible|Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible]]'' || Peter Pomerantsev || 2014 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
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| 21 || ''[[Library:Bad Blood|Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup]]'' || John Carreyrou || 2018 || Analysis || Business, Finance & Scams, Health & Medicine
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| 22 || ''[[Library:The Smartest Guys in the Room|The Smartest Guys in the Room]]'' || Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind || 2003 || Analysis || Business, Finance & Scams
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| 23 || ''[[Library:The Big Short|The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine]]'' || Michael Lewis || 2010 || Analysis || Business, Finance & Scams
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| 24 || ''[[Library:Doubt Is Their Product|Doubt Is Their Product]]'' || David Michaels || 2008 || Analysis || Health & Medicine, Science & Environment
|-
| 25 || ''[[Library:Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!|Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!]]'' || John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton || 1995 || Analysis || Business, Finance & Scams, Technology & Media
|-
| 26 || ''[[Library:The Death of Expertise|The Death of Expertise]]'' || Tom Nichols || 2017 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society, Science & Environment
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| 27 || ''[[Library:Post-Truth|Post-Truth]]'' || Lee McIntyre || 2018 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Culture, Religion & Society
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| 28 || ''[[Library:Fashionable Nonsense|Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science]]'' || Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont || 1998 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Culture, Religion & Society
|-
| 29 || ''[[Library:The Honest Truth About Dishonesty|The Honest Truth About Dishonesty]]'' || Dan Ariely || 2012 || Analysis · Specimen || Business, Finance & Scams, Culture, Religion & Society
|-
| 30 || ''[[Library:Trick or Treatment|Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial]]'' || Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst || 2008 || Analysis || Health & Medicine
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| 31 || ''[[Library:The Big Con|The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man]]'' || David W. Maurer || 1940 || Analysis || Crime & Public Safety, Business, Finance & Scams
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| 32 || ''[[Library:The Confidence Game|The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It … Every Time]]'' || Maria Konnikova || 2016 || Analysis || Crime & Public Safety, Business, Finance & Scams
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| 33 || ''[[Library:Denying the Holocaust|Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory]]'' || Deborah E. Lipstadt || 1993 || Analysis || History
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| 34 || ''[[Library:The Paranoid Style in American Politics|The Paranoid Style in American Politics]]'' || Richard Hofstadter || 1965 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, History
|-
| 35 || ''[[Library:Voodoo Histories|Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History]]'' || David Aaronovitch || 2009 || Analysis || History, Politics & Elections
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| 36 || ''[[Library:Science Fictions|Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth]]'' || Stuart Ritchie || 2020 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Health & Medicine
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| 37 || ''[[Library:Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)|Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)]]'' || Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson || 2007 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society
|-
| 38 || ''[[Library:Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions|Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions]]'' || James Randi || 1980 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society, Science & Environment
|-
| 39 || ''[[Library:The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe|The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe]]'' || Steven Novella et al. || 2018 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Health & Medicine
|-
| 40 || ''[[Library:Bullshit Jobs|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory]]'' || David Graeber || 2018 || Analysis || Business, Finance & Scams
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| 41 || ''[[Library:A Field Guide to Lies|A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age]]'' || Daniel J. Levitin || 2016 || Analysis || Science & Environment, Technology & Media
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| 42 || ''[[Library:Proofiness|Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers]]'' || Charles Seife || 2010 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Science & Environment
|-
| 43 || ''[[Library:The Art of Deception|The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security]]'' || Kevin D. Mitnick & William L. Simon || 2002 || Primary source || Technology & Media, Crime & Public Safety
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| 44 || ''[[Library:LikeWar|LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media]]'' || P. W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking || 2018 || Analysis || Technology & Media, Politics & Elections
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| 45 || ''[[Library:Network Propaganda|Network Propaganda]]'' || Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris & Hal Roberts || 2018 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
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| 46 || ''[[Library:The Hype Machine|The Hype Machine]]'' || Sinan Aral || 2020 || Analysis || Technology & Media
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| 47 || ''[[Library:Truth Decay|Truth Decay]]'' || Jennifer Kavanagh & Michael D. Rich || 2018 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
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| 48 || ''[[Library:The Cigarette Century|The Cigarette Century]]'' || Allan M. Brandt || 2007 || Analysis || Health & Medicine, Business, Finance & Scams, History
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| 49 || ''[[Library:Duped|Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception]]'' || Timothy R. Levine || 2019 || Analysis || Culture, Religion & Society
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| 50 || ''[[Library:Liars|Liars: Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception]]'' || Cass R. Sunstein || 2021 || Analysis || Politics & Elections, Technology & Media
|}

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