Why you always lying?
Memoirs, biographies, and non fiction that have been either proven to be fabricated, or are heavily suspected to be false.
Always open to more suggestions in any category as I’m most familiar with false memoirs!
created by FeralAcademic
last updated August, 2026
Comments
WOAH what an interesting list!!
Thank you! I’ve been falling down a rabbit hole lately about this stuff! I’ve been ranting about two of the books for ages but after discovering the story of JT Leroy (which FASCINATES ME seriously I recommend checking it out), AND discovering that two popular books from my childhood were disproven, I wanted to list as many as I can to learn about!
A NOTE: “A Child Called It” is only included here because of the controversy surrounding how much is truth in them. I do believe he was abused but he’s shown a history of lying and artificially inflating his numbers by buying and reselling THOUSANDS of his books, as well as a fervent ego problem so I’m less likely to believe that every horrendous detail in the book happened and there wasn’t some embellishment. It’s actually more argued about whether the later two books were less real than the first, but I didn’t want to include the whole series.
