This is my third list for this sub. I hope you enjoy it.
ART THIEVES, FORGERS, SMUGGLERS.
The Art of the Steal by Christopher Mason. A true story about the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s and how they conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars.
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace. The most expensive bottle of wine and the conflicting reports about its history. This is a book that would enchant wine conessi… conues… lovers.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser. Author Ulrich Boser looks at the unsolved art theft case of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant. Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-activist, fells a unique 165 feet Sitka spruce in an act of protest. John Vaillant takes the readers into the heart of North America’s last great forest to find out why he did that.
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by Susan Ronald. Hildebrand Gurlitt was an art thief, or as he put it himself, an ‘official dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels. But he stole from the Jews and Nazis alike. This book was published after his hoard was recently (2013) discovered which created an international furor.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart. This book is about the art theft at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986. The suspect, a gangster named Martin Cahill, played cat and mouse with police for years.
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. When you think about stealing some valuable art, do maps come to your mind? Then this book is for you. Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr. stole numerous centuries-old maps from research libraries in US and Canada.
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne. Han van Meegeren became so much adapt at forging Vermeer paintings that it is said that even professional experts would find it difficult to point out his works from the originals. He earned more than $50 million by selling his forgeries – and he even swindled the Nazis.
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy. Reptile smuggling is a big “business”. The author, a federal agent, suspected a reptile business owner of being a major smuggler and he started investigating. It was not as simple as it sounds because at one point he was chased by a mother alligator and even bitten by a python.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver. A 2500 year old cup made by the Greek master Euphronios which depicted the fall of Troy gets stolen and sold (along with 3 other such vessels). Then due to the questionable practice of some art dealers, no one can track down its last known owner.
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. With nothing better to do, the author embarks on a journey to discover a Caravaggio painting which was lost to time two hundred years ago.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett. John Charles Gilkey stole rare books not because he wanted to make profit as most thieves do, but because he loved books. I guess if you want to call yourself a book-reader but don’t actually want to say… read a book, you could just steal them and show them off to your friends. But who are we to question the wisdom of “booklovers”, right?
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean. If you thought that stealing maps is a weird “job” to have, how about stealing a rare breed of flower? We all know about the Tulipomania that gripped Netherlands in the 1630s. But this is a modern tale, and the book is perhaps one of the most popular ones on this list.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. This book is about Robert K. Wittman, FBI’s founder of the Art Crime Team and his undercover missions around the world to rescue various pieces of stolen art.
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury. You could have a Jackson Pollock lying around in your basement, but if you can’t prove that the piece is real, you might as well use it as a table cloth (I might have exaggerated there a bit, but you get the point). John Myatt, a struggling artist, and John Drewe, a conman who knew the importance of Provenance in the art world, duped many people and museums by creating a fake paper trial that seemed to prove that the art was a real thing and not a forgery. So much so that the experts believe that there might still be some fake paintings created by Myatt displayed in prominent places as the real thing.
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick. Dolnick writes about the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and the subsequent investigation that took place to track it down.
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris In mid-eighties, Hitler’s diaries were “discovered” and many experts fell for the con. The backpeddling many did when it was revealed that the diaries were not real is really amusing to read about.
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty by Craig Welch. This book is about the poaching of a larger-than-life clam – a Geoduck, to be precise, and the subsequent chase from the wildlife police to nab the poacher.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World by Roger Atwood. This book provides a sweeping history of thefts of various priceless antiques.
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney. The twelve panel oil-painting of the Mystic Lamb is the most frequently stolen artwork in the world. It was stolen 13 times. One wonders whether they could have guarded it a little better after the first couple of times, you know. Anyway, this book describes the events of each theft.
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith. Two reptile smugglers compete against each other to conquer the illegal trade for themselves. The funny thing is, the Zoos stood against them in the courts, but they had no problem buying rare fauna from the two smugglers, sometimes simultaneously.
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel. A massive fire destroyed wines worth $250 million in a California warehouse, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. It was done by a conman named Mark Anderson, who rented storage space at the same warehouse. This book tells why he did that and also goes into the surprisingly bloody history of wine trade in California. (reads well with cranberry juice).
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti. On August 21, 1911, a man walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa tucked inside his coat (should have painted it bigger, eh Vinci?). I am not going to spoil this book for anyone. Read it if you want to know whether Mona Lisa was recovered or was lost to time forever.
CARTELS, GANGS, UNDERWORLD.
American Desperado: My Life --- From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright. Jon Roberts, who starred in documentary Cocaine Cowboys tells his story to the journalist Evan Wright in this book. Roberts smuggled drugs to Miami for the Medellin Cartel (which will feature many times in this category).
At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel. This is Narcos Season 3, basically. Remember the family guy who gets involved with the Cali Cartel and mops around for the whole season even though he had an unbelievably hot wife who was clearly out of his league? That character was based on Rempel. And if I must say so, the book is more compelling than that season of Narcos. Nothing can beat Agent Pena, though.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill. The story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – the head of the Irish Mob in Boston - who became an informant for the FBI and chaos ensued. Depp plays Whitey Bulger in the movie adaptation with a soggy tortilla glued to his face as make-up.
Blow: How a Small -Town Bay Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by Bruce Porter. Another book where Johnny Depp plays the main character in the movie adaptation. This book is about George Jung, who after meeting Carlos Lehder, started selling cocaine in the United States through Medellin Cartel.
Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell. Paul Keany was caught smuggling half-a-million euro worth of cocaine into Venezuela. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Now, prisons everywhere aren’t exactly fun places to be, but Los Teques where Keany was incarcerated was nothing short of hell on earth.
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga. Junichi Saga was a doctor by profession. A patient, who was a former Yakuza, recounted his life story before him. Saga recorded the conversations, and broke doctor-patient confidentiality by writing this book.
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden. A dentist named Larry Lavin builds the foundation for a cocaine empire in the United States.
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover for six years to infiltrate the Mafia. Do watch the movie too, it is Depp’s last movie without weird make-up.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo. Journalist Ioan Grillo has written, arguably, the definitive book on Mexican drug cartels. Why he is still alive is anybody’s guess.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh. Venkatesh, who was a sociology grad student at the time, infiltrated one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. This is one of a kind type of book.
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. This book is about the Italian Crime Network called Camorra in Naples, Italy. Due to his intensive investigative journalism which exposed lot of insider information about the crime syndicate, author Saviano still has to live under constant police protection.
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry. This is a recent book, where the author Alex Perry looks inside the ruthless Calabrian Mafia of Italy and three women who want to save their own and their children’s lives. This is a fascinating and courageous look into an aspect of the Mafia which is often overlooked by most.
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most Wanted Drug-Lord by Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century. Remember when Joaquin Guzman was caught for the first time and then he escaped and then he was caught again for good? Yes? Then read this one. But this book only focuses on the operation that nabbed him for the first time. I must warn you though – the author, Andrew Hogan – is really really in love with himself and it seeps into his writing.
The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel by Robert Mazur. Mazur went undercover and actually became a money launderer for Pablo Escobar. This book is more about how bankers actively helped to launder the drug money and how Mazur helped to bring them down.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden. This is the best book about tracking and eventually killing Pablo Escobar. And as Walter Jr. pointed out to Walter White, it focuses on the good guys, not the bad ones. Good companion book to Pablo Escobar: My Father written by Escobar’s son.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail by Rusty Young. The author stays inside San Pedro jail for months with a drug smuggler to chronicle his tale. This is one of the most popular books written on cocaine smuggling.
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny. This is a thorough investigation into organized crime worldwide which accounts for 1/5th of total GDP of the world. This book would please readers who are into extensively researched true-crime history books, not so much a casual reader (inb4 - I just read 5 pages of McMafia and wow… just wow).
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade by Edward Bunker. Edward Bunker had had an eventful life. Incarceration for two and a half decades, being on FBI’s most wanted list, and being a crime novelist. This is his autobiography.
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks. Howard Marks started dealing dope in small quantities while he was studying at Oxford – as you do – and then eventually graduated to dealing it in tons (what the hell was he studying there? Oh, philosophy). This is his fascinating story.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez. Yet another book that resulted in the author getting death threats. This proves the old cliché true that the pen is mightier than the sword; until the sword comes down and cuts your neck. That’s why the author has to live under constant protection.
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright. Any aspiring drug lords should read this instruction manual. Just kidding. Wainwright goes deep into the functioning of various drug cartels and at the end also comes up with a plan to defeat them.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Little known author tries his hand at true-crime. Pablo Escobar kidnapped 10 journalists when he was on the run from the authorities. This book revolves around that event.
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy by Chandan Nandy. On a December night in 1995, someone airdropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, West Bengal. Who did it and why? This book tells the story about one of India’s greatest ever security breaches.
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton. Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the notorious biker gang. This is his story.
Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo is an architect and lives and practices his trade in Argentina. Even though Pablo was his father, Juan does not try to justify his actions even a little bit. This is one of the best books written on Pablo Escobar.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe. Sister Ping, leader of the Chinese underworld in the US, earned $40 million a year smuggling people from China. Told from the viewpoints of gangsters, investigators, and poor immigrants alike, this book provides a unique window into the world of human smuggling.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History by Michael D. Blutrich. I am disappointed that they went with FBI instead of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the title. Should have made it longer. Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City on the 34th Street Just Opposite the Starbucks, Was Extorted out of 4.54 Millions and 55 Cents Plus Taxes by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in Federal Bureau of Investigation History by Michael Dostoyevsky Blutrich
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein. The author, working as a reporter in Japan, writes about the seedy underbelly of crime in the country.
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley. Where’s Nitty? He’s in the car. Great movie. How Eliot Ness and his team started the downward spiral in criminal career of Al Capone. A somewhat embellished account was also written in the book, but nonetheless, it is a gripping tale.
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand by K. Vijay Kumar. Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was the last big outlaw of India. A sandalwood smuggler who lived in the forest to evade the police, Veerappan killed hundreds of policemen and civilians. K. Vijay Kumar, the officer who led the task force that ultimately brought down the brigand, is the author of this book.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? Goodfellas is perhaps the best Mafia movie ever made, so read it in his own words why Pileggi might fold under questioning.
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss. This Saviano guy must have a death wish. But as a handsome list-writer once eloquently said, “If bitten already by a King Cobra, what difference it makes if you French kiss a Black Mamba?” Since the publication of his book on the Italian crime syndicate, Saviano has to live under constant police protection. So to make sure they don’t slack off, he wrote a book on Cocaine Cartel, this time acquiring lots of admirers in Latin America.
CONMEN, IMPOSTORS.
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten. The Art of making money is to make other people work for you; not the other way round. But more scrupulous method of making money would be to counterfeit it. Art Williams did exactly that.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale. Maybe the most popular book on this list, Abagnale Jr.’s book is not to be missed even if you have watched the movie starring the actor who had sex with a bear (no, not Tormund).
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. One “Dr.” John R. Brinkley, set-up a medical practice to surgically insert goat glands in human testicles to restore their fading sex drive. I am not joking, this happened.
Conman: A Master Swindler’s Own Story by J. R. Weil, W. T. Brannon. Known as “Yellow Kid” Weil was a master conman, who duped public of more than $8 million 100 years ago. He’s called by many as the greatest conman of all time (second to the companies that charge service fees on the internet, of course).
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton. Fenton was a math student until he turned into a carnival con artist. How many bananas he stole from the monkeys? How many bales of potatoes from the elephants? Read this book to find out.
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise. If you have any annoying friends who romanticize the Victorian era and say that they would have liked to live there, tell them to read this book and get back to you after that.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal. This is the true story of one of the greatest impostors of all time. The man could have impersonated a chihuahua if he wanted to.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by James Francis Johnson. Viktor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. I still have the relevant papers that my great grandfather left us. I’m going to shift it to Nauru or Detroit.
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading. This is a revenge story of a man who sets out to con the conmen who conned him twice. Unfortunately, the book could have been written better, but it is still worth having a look at.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood. I once tried playing dead in a meeting when asked about the progress on my project. But there are people who fake their death for lesser gains, such as insurance fraud and debt fraud. Author Elizabeth Greenwood journeys into the dark world of death fraud to find out more.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff. Charles Ponzi was so successful in duping people that we have immortalized his name by terming such swindles after him. At one point, he was raking in $2 millions a week. How many weeks would it take you to earn 2 million dollars at your current income? (sorry, that got heavy fast. It hurt me too).
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh. One botanist claimed that some species of plants on the islands south of Scotland survived the last Ice Age. Another botanist doubted him. This might not sound like a big fraud if you are not into plants, but believe me when I say that the 2 botanists who just read this threw their phones away in disgust and disbelief.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen. A quack doctor named Linda Hazard developed a technique called “fasting treatment”. The story focuses on two sisters who fell for the quack’s assurances that they would be cured of all the diseases - real or imagined. This book is quite infuriating to read. Hazard was a despicable human being.
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson. Wilson looks from ancient Rome to current times for food frauds. And she finds them aplenty (companion read - while having a nice snack).
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar. This is a good bathroom book about fakers through history.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. Have you heard about Tania Head? If you haven’t, I urge you to skip this book. Tania Head duped survivors of 9/11 and the whole world alike into believing that she was one of the survivors from the South Tower of World Trade Center. I feel enraged just by typing this. So just read this book if you want to know more about her. There are a couple of documentaries out there too.
HACKERS.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. Long before internet became a place for cat memes, Cliff Stoll was working at a research lab as a systems manager. One day he found 75 cents of accounting error. This made him alert that an unauthorized person was logging into the system. Thus began his lone effort of tracking down the spy.
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley. Before there was internet, or even personal computers, mobsters and teenagers hacked the telephone system.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. The book tells the story of one of the best hackers of all times, Kevin Mitnick, and his cat and mouse game with the FBI.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich. A group of bankers manipulated daily interest rates just a fraction here and there on loans worth trillions of dollars and made some serious cash for themselves. This book also rocks one of the ugliest book covers of 2017.
MUTINEERS, PIRATES, OUTLAWS.
Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash. I was torn whether to include this book in the list as the history of Batavia’s mutiny is littered with corpses. But as the focus is on the mutiny, I am going to keep it here. This event could give the Medusa’s raft a run for its money.
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts by Sian Rees. Poor girls in England, most of who were petty thieves, were given a chance to sail to Botany Bay in Australia to create a new life for themselves and the male population of New South Wales. But the real story happened at the sea on board the ship Lady Julian.
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch. Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty. The book might not be full of memorable dialogues as the movie, but if you want to know more about the legendary outlaws, give this book a chance.
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks. Mutiny of the Bounty is perhaps the most infamous of mutinies that occurred at sea. Even after the event and hundreds of years later, the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his sailors continue to live a crime-filled life like their forefathers on Pitcairn Island.
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks. This book will change your perception of Captain Kidd, that’s for sure.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner. This non-fiction book concentrates on Sheriff Pat Garrett’s chase in pursuit of the bandit Billy the Kid. If you like reading westerns, this one and The Last Outlaws are not to be missed.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. Cordingly takes a look at life among the pirates. Some of your romanticism would be squashed, but there were some good things about being a pirate too. Life among the pirates was neither black nor white; it was beige.
POLITICAL CRIMES
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson. Three kids won a 300 million dollar contract – legitimately – I must add, to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They had no money, but still they almost pulled it off. I don’t know, read this book, and if you’re a US citizen, visit the websites mentioned in the book, see if they are still doing business the same way, and if you want, you can become a supplier to the army too. Don’t forget to send me my cut (the movie War Dogs was trash).
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts. Even if you’re not a United Statian of American (USians?), chances are you might have read at least something about the execution of the Rosenberg couple as spies. This is probably the best book about the subject.
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq by Bob Drogin. How many weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? If your answer is “what’s that?” then congratulations, you’re not unlike one of your former presidents. Who told the USians that there were WMDs with Saddam? Curveball.
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Perkins was an economic hitman, who at the instruction of US intelligence agencies and giant corporations cajoled and blackmailed other country leaders to serve US foreign policy and award lucrative contracts to American businesses (now that job has been transferred to the White House).
A Kim Jong – Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer. Say you want to make a big movie for your country. But there is no one in your country who can handle such an ambitious project. What do you do? Hire some talent from other country? But you’re Kim Jong – Il. Oh. Then you just kidnap them, and force them to make the glorious movie of yours. Read this book. It’s pretty absurd (the movie they eventually made for Kim was utter shit. The Room would look like Gone with the Wind compared to that abomination).
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets… And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins. One day a man Abdul Qadeer Khan caught a plane to Pakistan from Europe. With him he had blueprints of the mechanism that could prepare weapons grade Uranium that he had stolen from the lab he worked at in the last 3 years. He would make the first atomic bomb for Pakistan with that information. Then he sold the tech to stable countries like Iran, North Korea and Libya. How can someone get away with stealing such powerful information? Read this book to find out.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen. This is a pretty controversial topic that has only gained wider acknowledgement in recent decades. Read this book to know in detail how bogus the claims of justice being served to the perpetrators of the Holocaust were. Basically, if you were a scientist, you were very likely to be acquitted from any War Crimes allegations.
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni. How did most of the Nazis who managed to escape from Germany ended up in South America? Read about the collusion of various entities and institutions that made it possible in this book.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI’s Hunt for America’s Stolen Secrets by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. This is the true story of a mole in FBI, how he attempted to sell classified information and how FBI tried to track him down.
ROBBERIES, HEISTS.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein. If there is one thief in this list that I admire, it is without a doubt, Attila Ambrus. Ambrus was known as a gentleman thief, who would ask – no, request - the teller to fill his bag with money. If you read this book, it would be hard for you to dislike Attila even though he was a thief.
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld. Bill Mason looted many famous personalities in his long career as a jewel thief. In this book he tells how he did it.
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson. Do you know there are people whose hobby is fly tying? The feathery thing that you attach to the hook to catch fish? But these are not your average fly tiers. They use feathers from exotic birds to create different ties whose total cost could run in thousands of dollars. Moreover, many of the most coveted birds are either protected or extinct. So one night a man named Edwin Rist broke into Tring museum and took hundreds of bird skins, some that belonged to Darwin, to fuel his hobby and even getting rich by selling precious feathers to other tiers. Don’t miss this book.
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by Mark Bowden. Who hasn’t dreamt of finding a big bag of money? It couldn’t have happened to a more clueless person. Joey Coyle, to be exact.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby. The theft from Antwerp that still raises many questions.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn. The truth is not that romantic.
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Pearls, more valuable than the Hope Diamond, are stolen by thieves in Edwardian London.
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. My favorite Crichton book. Stealing gold from a running train! Watch the movie too that stars the great Sean Connery.
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by Jeff Diamant. How hard is it to steal 17 million dollars? As far as these thieves were concerned, not much. Getting away with it was another thing altogether. The movie was pretty average, I think.
Into the Blast: The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Porteous, Robert Blevins. Is Tommy Wiseau DB Cooper? If only that was true. Read the book but don’t expect any clear-cut answers (I think most people would agree that the clumsy bastard died after he jumped from the plane).
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. True story of George Appo, a pickpocket living in nineteenth-century New York.
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich. A guy steals moon rocks from NASA and then had sex on them with his girlfriend (how the hell is that comfortable?)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel. The last hermit was not a hermit in true sense. He didn’t rely on land to feed himself. He stole from the nearby community. Before someone says I have spoiled the book for them, it is revealed in the first chapter that he is a thief.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The Steve Jobs impersonator, Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, and her old boyfriend, Sunny, are some of the most vile people that I have come across while reading about corporate crime. This is one of the best books that I have read this year.
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart. This is probably the most famous book written about those Wall Street scoundrels.
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb. The story of Leo Koretz, who created one of the longest running Ponzi schemes in the 1920s Chicago.
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald. Mark Whitacre becomes an FBI informant against his own corporation. But as time goes by, the FBI starts to realize that Mark is not as truthful as he seems to be, and he has his own agenda (they made a movie with Matt Damon).
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con by Guy Lawson. Sam Israel’s hedge fund was making heavy losses. So naturally, he fabricated fake returns to fool the investors. Then he heard about a secret market from where he could convert his millions into billions. That’s how he lost the last 150 million dollars of his invertors’ money.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder. Only thing you are going to learn from this book is don’t do business in Russia.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind. Bethany McLean asked one simple question in her article when everyone else was going gaga over Enron. “What does Enron actually do?” Nobody knew. Even Enron couldn’t give a specific answer. They were not just committing accounting fraud; they were looting ordinary people by creating fake shortage of electricity and driving the prices high. The documentary is worth watching too.
Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony by Gary Stephen Ross. The guy Molony debited huge amounts of money from the bank he worked at to feed his gambling addiction. Oh, and he took the money in other people’s name who held huge accounts there. This is one of the best true-crime books that I have ever read.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer. You know the man who builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Great guy, right? Krakauer doesn’t think so. And he’ll tell you why in this short book.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques. 65 billion dollars. That’s the amount that Madoff swindled from people through decades of fraud. I think I can buy a small island country with this much money. The idiot is in jail though. I don’t know, maybe after a couple of billion, skip to a country with no extradition treaty and live the rest of your life without the fear of being getting caught? But then, these types of people don’t know when to stop.
OTHER.
American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down --- My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off World’s Casinos by Richard Marcus. The guy ripped-off casinos all over the world by stealing gaming chips while maintaining an illusion of a highroller to lend his eventual take required legitimacy.
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak. Written by the daughter of a guard at Alcatraz, this book tells the story of the infamous escape from the prison island. Don’t forget to watch the classic movie too.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich. The movie 21 was based on this book. But if you want to know the real story, without the whitewashing, you have no choice but to read this book.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales estimates that there are 27 million people worldwide who live as slaves, right now. And yes, slavery still exists in United States of America in case you were wondering. This is a depressing book.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T. J. Parsell. Rape in prison is absolutely overlooked almost everywhere. Read this book if you can endure reading about helplessness page after page.
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella. Prison systems in developing world differ from the developed one in one regard that the guards and officials there are more corrupt and hence are likely to look the other way when something bad is going down amongst the inmates. Kerobokan Jail in Bali is one of the worst among those.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley. The author interviewed inmates from Leavenworth Prison for two years. The book is the result of that labor.
The Laundrymen: Inside the World’s Third Largest Business by Jeffrey Robinson. I have a perfect idea to launder money. Laser Tag! Robinson looks at the third largest business in the world. The book was published a while ago, but still hasn’t lost most of its relevancy.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer. Jon releases the Krakauer on one of the most relevant subjects of today. Rapes in colleges. These institutes would do anything to sweep things under the rug to maintain the illusion of clean image in the public eye.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover. The author worked as a prison guard for a year at one of the most notorious prisons of the United States. This book is about his experience.

What's happening around town (Wed, Oct 16th - Tue, Oct 22nd)

Tulsa's event list.

Ongoing

The Hex House (The Hex House - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Nov 2nd Travel to Tulsa for The Hex House, northeast Oklahoma's extreme haunted attraction. The Hex House is an intense,…
Psycho Path Haunted Attraction (The Psycho Path - Sperry) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Travel to Sperry for the Psycho Path Haunted Attraction and prepare to be terrified. Enter woods shrouded by fog and…

Wednesday, Oct 16th

🎡 Bavarski at Linde (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 12:00pm https://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ QUICK DETAILS The 2019 Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa will be held October 17-20 at River West Festival Park, 2100 S. Jackson Ave. in Tulsa, OK 74107. The hours for the festival are: Thursday 5–11 pm Friday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) Saturday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) …
🎭 The Drowsy Chaperone (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 8:00pm Theatre Tulsa presents "The Drowsy Chaperone," a music comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. When a…
🎨 Fall Break Workshops (Philbrook Downtown - Tulsa) Thru Fri, Oct 18th Start Time: 9:00am Real Artists. Real Fun. Philbrook offers a unique opportunity for children ages 5-12 to work with acclaimed working local and regional artists from a variety of fields and disciplines. Move beyond lanyards and popsicle sticks: give the children in your life an unforgettable fall break experience exploring ideas, getting messy, and making art…
Food Truck Wednesdays (Guthrie Green - Tulsa) Every Wednesday, grab some tasty eats and gather on the grounds of Guthrie Green. During Food Truck Wednesdays, lunchtime…
😂 Paul Hooper (Loony Bin - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 19th
🎓 The Raconteurs (10/16) with The Casualties of Jazz (Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa) Start Time: 6:30pm Due to demand, a #thirdshow has been added! @[8441676007:274:The Raconteurs] - 10/16 ON SALE FRI APR 26 10:00 AM CT
This event is all ages
Every online ticket purchase comes with one physical copy of The Raconteurs upcoming album “Help Us Stranger.” Approx 48 hours after purchase, you'll get an email w/ instructions on redemption.…
🎡 Volunteer for Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 4:00pm The greatest German biers of our time need some very special handling. That’s where you come in. Help us bring authentic Bavaria to life right here in Tulsa by giving a few hours of time to pour, sell, visit, give, guide, drive, lift and, well, dance (the Chicken Dance). Individuals, friends, friends of friends, families, corporate volunteers…

Thursday, Oct 17th

23rd Annual John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture (University of Tulsa - Tulsa) Start Time: 6:00pm From the Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation’s foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time. The University of Tulsa College of Law welcomes Eric Foner for the 23rd Annual John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture, “The Second Founding: How the Civil…
🎡 Bavarski at Linde (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 12:00pm https://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ QUICK DETAILS The 2019 Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa will be held October 17-20 at River West Festival Park, 2100 S. Jackson Ave. in Tulsa, OK 74107. The hours for the festival are: Thursday 5–11 pm Friday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) Saturday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) …
Bezz Believe w/ Statik-G (Blackbird On Pearl - Tulsa) Start Time: 8:00pm
Charlie Daniels Band in Concert (Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa - Catoosa) Hear bluegrass and country legends the Charlie Daniels Band live at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Casino in…
♪ Cruise Night Live Music (Tulsa Raceway Park - Tulsa) Start Time: 6:00pm
🎭 The Drowsy Chaperone (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 8:00pm Theatre Tulsa presents "The Drowsy Chaperone," a music comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. When a…
🎨 Fall Break Workshops (Philbrook Downtown - Tulsa) 1 day left Start Time: 9:00am Real Artists. Real Fun. Philbrook offers a unique opportunity for children ages 5-12 to work with acclaimed working local and regional artists from a variety of fields and disciplines. Move beyond lanyards and popsicle sticks: give the children in your life an unforgettable fall break experience exploring ideas, getting messy, and making art…
🎡 Lederhosen Lauf (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Start Time: 7:15pm
🏃 Lederhosen Lauf at Linde Oktoberfest (River West Festival Park - Tulsa) Kick off your Oktoberfest celebration with the Lederhosen Lauf - a 3 Mile Race that starts and finishes in the heart of Tulsa Oktoberfest - right in front of Das Glockenspiel! Every finisher will receive a KleinKrug, a drink token that will fill the KleinKrug, free entry into Oktoberfest for October 17, and a Lederhosen Lauf t-shirt.
Linde Oktoberfest (River West Festival Park - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Voted "Best Festival" by the Urban Tulsa Weekly, Linde Oktoberfest offers fun for all ages. Visitors to this fall…
🎡 Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Day 1 of 2 Start Time: 5:00pm Join us as Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa celebrates its 41st year as an authentic Bavarian cultural festival in the heart of Oklahoma. Scheduled for October...
😂 Paul Hooper (Loony Bin - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 19th
🎡 Volunteer for Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 4:00pm The greatest German biers of our time need some very special handling. That’s where you come in. Help us bring authentic Bavaria to life right here in Tulsa by giving a few hours of time to pour, sell, visit, give, guide, drive, lift and, well, dance (the Chicken Dance). Individuals, friends, friends of friends, families, corporate volunteers…

Friday, Oct 18th

Autumn Leaves Quilt Show (Claremore) Day 1 of 2 Visit the Autumn Leaves Quilt Show in Claremore to browse beautiful quilts made from local quilters. This fun and…
🎡 Bavarski at Linde (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 12:00pm https://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ QUICK DETAILS The 2019 Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa will be held October 17-20 at River West Festival Park, 2100 S. Jackson Ave. in Tulsa, OK 74107. The hours for the festival are: Thursday 5–11 pm Friday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) Saturday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) …
Cabin Club (Philbrook Downtown - Tulsa) Start Time: 6:00pm
🎭 The Drowsy Chaperone (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 8:00pm Theatre Tulsa presents "The Drowsy Chaperone," a music comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. When a…
🎨 Fall Break Workshops (Philbrook Downtown - Tulsa) Last Day Start Time: 9:00am Real Artists. Real Fun. Philbrook offers a unique opportunity for children ages 5-12 to work with acclaimed working local and regional artists from a variety of fields and disciplines. Move beyond lanyards and popsicle sticks: give the children in your life an unforgettable fall break experience exploring ideas, getting messy, and making art…
Friday Night Test N Tune (Tulsa Raceway Park - Tulsa) Start Time: 6:00pm
Linde Oktoberfest (River West Festival Park - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Voted "Best Festival" by the Urban Tulsa Weekly, Linde Oktoberfest offers fun for all ages. Visitors to this fall…
🎡 Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Day 2 of 2 Start Time: 5:00pm Join us as Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa celebrates its 41st year as an authentic Bavarian cultural festival in the heart of Oklahoma. Scheduled for October...
Nimrod Write Night (Tulsa Historical Society & Museum - Tulsa) Come to the Tulsa Historical Society for an unforgettable literary event. Nimrod Write Night will feature a…
😂 Paul Hooper (Loony Bin - Tulsa) 1 day left
Route 66 Flywheelers Gas Engine & Tractor Show (Rogers Point - Catoosa) Day 1 of 2 Head to Rogers Point Park along Route 66 in Catoosa for the Route 66 Flywheelers Gas Engine & Tractor Show. Admire…
🎓 Tonatiuh Dance Company Workshop (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 7:45am Presented By: Tonatiuh Dance Company This FREE event is a master class for Mexican traditional dance given by Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernandez, one of the most recognized figures in Mexico.
U.S. National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Expo Square - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th
Vintage Market Days (Creek County Fairgrounds - Kellyville) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Vintage Market Days is an upscale open air market featuring vintage and vintage inspired collections for all ages. Named as…
🎡 Volunteer for Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Thru Sun, Oct 20th Start Time: 4:00pm The greatest German biers of our time need some very special handling. That’s where you come in. Help us bring authentic Bavaria to life right here in Tulsa by giving a few hours of time to pour, sell, visit, give, guide, drive, lift and, well, dance (the Chicken Dance). Individuals, friends, friends of friends, families, corporate volunteers…
We Will Rock You (River Spirit Casino - Tulsa) With the Oscar-winning film,"Bohemian Rhapsody," the music of Queen is more popular than ever. Head to Paradise…
🎓 What the Butler Saw (American Theatre Company - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00pm Presented By: American Theatre Company In this farce by Joe Orton, Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary. When his wife surprises them, he hides the woman behind a curtain. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by…

Saturday, Oct 19th

Autumn Leaves Quilt Show (Claremore) Day 2 of 2 Visit the Autumn Leaves Quilt Show in Claremore to browse beautiful quilts made from local quilters. This fun and…
🎡 The Bavarian Cup Team Challenge (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Start Time: 2:00pm
🎡 Bavarski at Linde (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) 1 day left Start Time: 12:00pm https://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ QUICK DETAILS The 2019 Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa will be held October 17-20 at River West Festival Park, 2100 S. Jackson Ave. in Tulsa, OK 74107. The hours for the festival are: Thursday 5–11 pm Friday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) Saturday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) …
🎭 The Drowsy Chaperone (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) 1 day left Start Time: 8:00pm Theatre Tulsa presents "The Drowsy Chaperone," a music comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. When a…
🎭 The Drunkard and the Olio (Tulsa Spotlight Theatre - Tulsa) Start Time: 7:30pm
🏃 Kappa Delta Shamrock N' Run (University of Tulsa - Tulsa) 80% of the proceeds raised will stay in our community to fund the work being done by the Parent Child Center of Tulsa. The remaining 20% will go to Prevent Child Abuse America, the leading advocate for preventing child abuse and neglect. With your help, we can continue to make an impact on the lives of children in our community and nationwide!
Kendall Whittier Mercado (Kendall-Whittier - Tulsa) Twice a month from May to October, scope out handmade goods and unique art on display at the Kendall Whittier Mercado in…
KRS-One (The Shrine - Tulsa) Start Time: 9:00pm
♪ Last in Line with Special Guest Fist of Rage (IDL Ballroom - Tulsa) Start Time: 7:00pm Headliner: Last in Line Special Guest: Fist of Rage
Linde Oktoberfest (River West Festival Park - Tulsa) 1 day left Voted "Best Festival" by the Urban Tulsa Weekly, Linde Oktoberfest offers fun for all ages. Visitors to this fall…
Nimrod Conference for Readers & Writers (University of Tulsa - Tulsa) Join Nimrod International Journal for an all-day writing conference with workshops in fiction, poetry, memoir, romance,…
😂 Paul Hooper (Loony Bin - Tulsa) Last Day
Rock Swap & Open House (D.W. Correll Museum - Catoosa) Plan a visit to the D.W. Correll Museum for the Rock Swap & Open House and land yourself free admission to this…
Rose District Farmers Market (Rose District Plaza - Broken Arrow) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00am different music, events, and guests, each week
Tulsa Roughnecks FC vs Reno 1868 FC (ONEOK Field - Tulsa) Support the Tulsa Roughnecks FC professional soccer team as they take on Reno 1868 FC at ONEOK Field in Tulsa. Since…
Route 66 Flywheelers Gas Engine & Tractor Show (Rogers Point - Catoosa) Day 2 of 2 Head to Rogers Point Park along Route 66 in Catoosa for the Route 66 Flywheelers Gas Engine & Tractor Show. Admire…
🎓 Tonatiuh Dance Company Workshop (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) 1 day left Start Time: 7:45am Presented By: Tonatiuh Dance Company This FREE event is a master class for Mexican traditional dance given by Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernandez, one of the most recognized figures in Mexico.
U.S. National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Expo Square - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th
Vintage Market Days (Creek County Fairgrounds - Kellyville) 1 day left Vintage Market Days is an upscale open air market featuring vintage and vintage inspired collections for all ages. Named as…
🎡 Volunteer for Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) 1 day left Start Time: 4:00pm The greatest German biers of our time need some very special handling. That’s where you come in. Help us bring authentic Bavaria to life right here in Tulsa by giving a few hours of time to pour, sell, visit, give, guide, drive, lift and, well, dance (the Chicken Dance). Individuals, friends, friends of friends, families, corporate volunteers…
🎓 What the Butler Saw (American Theatre Company - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00pm Presented By: American Theatre Company In this farce by Joe Orton, Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary. When his wife surprises them, he hides the woman behind a curtain. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by…

Sunday, Oct 20th

🎭 10 Hairy Legs (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Start Time: 8:00pm 10 Hairy Legs Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. :: John H. Williams Theatre 10 Hairy Legs is an all-male repertory dance company performing existing and newly commissioned works. The company has commissioned works from choreographers Doug Varone, Doug Elkins, Tiffany Mills, Manuel Vignoulle, Julie Bour, Megan Williams and fo... GET TICKETS
🎡 Bavarski at Linde (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Last Day Start Time: 12:00pm https://tulsaoktoberfest.org/ QUICK DETAILS The 2019 Linde Oktoberfest Tulsa will be held October 17-20 at River West Festival Park, 2100 S. Jackson Ave. in Tulsa, OK 74107. The hours for the festival are: Thursday 5–11 pm Friday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) Saturday 11 am–1 am – (Beer sales end at 12:30 am) …
🎡 Dachshund Dash & Costume Parade Presented by Woodland West (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Start Time: 1:00pm
🎭 The Drowsy Chaperone (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Last Day Start Time: 8:00pm Theatre Tulsa presents "The Drowsy Chaperone," a music comedy by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. When a…
♪ Go for Gold // Lilac Kings / Second Glance (The Vanguard - Tulsa) Start Time: 8:00pm
Linde Oktoberfest (River West Festival Park - Tulsa) Last Day Voted "Best Festival" by the Urban Tulsa Weekly, Linde Oktoberfest offers fun for all ages. Visitors to this fall…
Shawn James (The Shrine - Tulsa) Start Time: 8:00pm
🎓 Tonatiuh Dance Company Workshop (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Last Day Start Time: 7:45am Presented By: Tonatiuh Dance Company This FREE event is a master class for Mexican traditional dance given by Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernandez, one of the most recognized figures in Mexico.
U.S. National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Expo Square - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th
Vintage Market Days (Creek County Fairgrounds - Kellyville) Last Day Vintage Market Days is an upscale open air market featuring vintage and vintage inspired collections for all ages. Named as…
🎡 Volunteer for Linde Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest - Tulsa) Last Day Start Time: 4:00pm The greatest German biers of our time need some very special handling. That’s where you come in. Help us bring authentic Bavaria to life right here in Tulsa by giving a few hours of time to pour, sell, visit, give, guide, drive, lift and, well, dance (the Chicken Dance). Individuals, friends, friends of friends, families, corporate volunteers…
🎓 What the Butler Saw (American Theatre Company - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00pm Presented By: American Theatre Company In this farce by Joe Orton, Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary. When his wife surprises them, he hides the woman behind a curtain. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by…

Monday, Oct 21st

♪ The Barber of Seville (Tulsa Performing Art Center - Tulsa) Start Time: 2:30pm The Barber of Seville Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 21 at 2:30 p.m. :: Chapman Music Hall Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" is a relentlessly madcap pursuit of love through twists and turns, hidden motives and true intentions. Tenor Aaron Blake returns as Count Almaviva, an aristocrat who falls in love with the lovely Rosina, the niec... GET TICKETS
Fiction Addiction Book Club (Owasso Library - Owasso) Start Time: 6:00pm Love talking about books? So do we! Join us to discuss "The Other Einstein" by Marie Benedict. Reserved copies of the book are available at the desk. For adults.
🎭 Tenacious D In Post-Apocalypto The Tour (Brady Theater - Tulsa) Start Time: 8:00pm Tenacious D Special Guest Wynchester Tickets at venue box office M-F 10a-6p, 800-514-3849 & online http://bit.ly/TenaciousDTulsa On Sale Friday 5/3 10am
🎭 Tenacious D Password: hope (Brady Theater - Tulsa) Start Time: 10:00am Tenacious D in Post-Apocalypto Tour 2019 October 21 - Brady Theater Presale 5/1 10am - 5/2 10pm with password: HOPE Link: http://bit.ly/TenaciousDTulsa
U.S. National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Expo Square - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th
♪ Warbringer with Enforcer (The Shrine - Tulsa) Start Time: 7:00pm Headliner: Warbringer Enforcer
🎓 What the Butler Saw (American Theatre Company - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00pm Presented By: American Theatre Company In this farce by Joe Orton, Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary. When his wife surprises them, he hides the woman behind a curtain. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by…

Tuesday, Oct 22nd

🎓 Author David Grann - TU Presidential Lecture Series (University of Tulsa - Tulsa) Start Time: 7:30pm New York Times bestselling author David Grann, best known for "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI," doesn’t just produce captivating stories — he lives them. Join us for this FREE speaking event with Q&A and book signing at TU's Reynolds Center (corner of Harvard and 11th streets). "Killers of the Flower…
U.S. National Arabian & Half-Arabian Championship Horse Show (Expo Square - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th
🎓 What the Butler Saw (American Theatre Company - Tulsa) Thru Sat, Oct 26th Start Time: 8:00pm Presented By: American Theatre Company In this farce by Joe Orton, Dr. Prentice, a psychiatric doctor in an exclusive private clinic, is attempting to interview (and seduce) an attractive would-be secretary. When his wife surprises them, he hides the woman behind a curtain. The affairs multiply as Mrs. Prentice, being seduced and blackmailed by…

Cross-posting my list from books.
ART THIEVES, FORGERS, SMUGGLERS.
The Art of the Steal by Christopher Mason. A true story about the auction houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s and how they conspired to cheat their clients out of millions of dollars.
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine by Benjamin Wallace. The most expensive bottle of wine and the conflicting reports about its history. This is a book that would enchant wine conessi… conues… lovers.
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser. Author Ulrich Boser looks at the unsolved art theft case of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant. Grant Hadwin, a logger-turned-activist, fells a unique 165 feet Sitka spruce in an act of protest. John Vaillant takes the readers into the heart of North America’s last great forest to find out why he did that.
Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures by Susan Ronald. Hildebrand Gurlitt was an art thief, or as he put it himself, an ‘official dealer’ for Hitler and Goebbels. But he stole from the Jews and Nazis alike. This book was published after his hoard was recently (2013) discovered which created an international furor.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart. This book is about the art theft at Ireland’s Russborough House in 1986. The suspect, a gangster named Martin Cahill, played cat and mouse with police for years.
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey. When you think about stealing some valuable art, do maps come to your mind? Then this book is for you. Gilbert Joseph Bland Jr. stole numerous centuries-old maps from research libraries in US and Canada.
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Forger by Frank Wynne. Han van Meegeren became so much adapt at forging Vermeer paintings that it is said that even professional experts would find it difficult to point out his works from the originals. He earned more than $50 million by selling his forgeries – and he even swindled the Nazis.
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World’s Greatest Reptile Smugglers by Bryan Christy. Reptile smuggling is a big “business”. The author, a federal agent, suspected a reptile business owner of being a major smuggler and he started investigating. It was not as simple as it sounds because at one point he was chased by a mother alligator and even bitten by a python.
The Lost Chalice: The Epic Hunt for a Priceless Masterpiece by Vernon Silver. A 2500 year old cup made by the Greek master Euphronios which depicted the fall of Troy gets stolen and sold (along with 3 other such vessels). Then due to the questionable practice of some art dealers, no one can track down its last known owner.
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr. With nothing better to do, the author embarks on a journey to discover a Caravaggio painting which was lost to time two hundred years ago.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett. John Charles Gilkey stole rare books not because he wanted to make profit as most thieves do, but because he loved books. I guess if you want to call yourself a book-reader but don’t actually want to say… read a book, you could just steal them and show them off to your friends. But who are we to question the wisdom of “booklovers”, right?
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean. If you thought that stealing maps is a weird “job” to have, how about stealing a rare breed of flower? We all know about the Tulipomania that gripped Netherlands in the 1630s. But this is a modern tale, and the book is perhaps one of the most popular ones on this list.
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman, John Shiffman. This book is about Robert K. Wittman, FBI’s founder of the Art Crime Team and his undercover missions around the world to rescue various pieces of stolen art.
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury. You could have a Jackson Pollock lying around in your basement, but if you can’t prove that the piece is real, you might as well use it as a table cloth (I might have exaggerated there a bit, but you get the point). John Myatt, a struggling artist, and John Drewe, a conman who knew the importance of Provenance in the art world, duped many people and museums by creating a fake paper trial that seemed to prove that the art was a real thing and not a forgery. So much so that the experts believe that there might still be some fake paintings created by Myatt displayed in prominent places as the real thing.
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick. Dolnick writes about the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and the subsequent investigation that took place to track it down.
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris In mid-eighties, Hitler’s diaries were “discovered” and many experts fell for the con. The backpeddling many did when it was revealed that the diaries were not real is really amusing to read about.
Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature’s Bounty by Craig Welch. This book is about the poaching of a larger-than-life clam – a Geoduck, to be precise, and the subsequent chase from the wildlife police to nab the poacher.
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World by Roger Atwood. This book provides a sweeping history of thefts of various priceless antiques.
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World’s Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney. The twelve panel oil-painting of the Mystic Lamb is the most frequently stolen artwork in the world. It was stolen 13 times. One wonders whether they could have guarded it a little better after the first couple of times, you know. Anyway, this book describes the events of each theft.
Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery by Jennie Erin Smith. Two reptile smugglers compete against each other to conquer the illegal trade for themselves. The funny thing is, the Zoos stood against them in the courts, but they had no problem buying rare fauna from the two smugglers, sometimes simultaneously.
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel. A massive fire destroyed wines worth $250 million in a California warehouse, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. It was done by a conman named Mark Anderson, who rented storage space at the same warehouse. This book tells why he did that and also goes into the surprisingly bloody history of wine trade in California. (reads well with cranberry juice).
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti. On August 21, 1911, a man walked out of the Louvre with the Mona Lisa tucked inside his coat (should have painted it bigger, eh Vinci?). I am not going to spoil this book for anyone. Read it if you want to know whether Mona Lisa was recovered or was lost to time forever.
CARTELS, GANGS, UNDERWORLD.
American Desperado: My Life --- From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset by Jon Roberts, Evan Wright. Jon Roberts, who starred in documentary Cocaine Cowboys tells his story to the journalist Evan Wright in this book. Roberts smuggled drugs to Miami for the Medellin Cartel (which will feature many times in this category).
At the Devil’s Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel. This is Narcos Season 3, basically. Remember the family guy who gets involved with the Cali Cartel and mops around for the whole season even though he had an unbelievably hot wife who was clearly out of his league? That character was based on Rempel. And if I must say so, the book is more compelling than that season of Narcos. Nothing can beat Agent Pena, though.
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O’Neill. The story of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger – the head of the Irish Mob in Boston - who became an informant for the FBI and chaos ensued. Depp plays Whitey Bulger in the movie adaptation with a soggy tortilla glued to his face as make-up.
Blow: How a Small -Town Bay Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All by Bruce Porter. Another book where Johnny Depp plays the main character in the movie adaptation. This book is about George Jung, who after meeting Carlos Lehder, started selling cocaine in the United States through Medellin Cartel.
Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Paul Keany, Jeff Farrell. Paul Keany was caught smuggling half-a-million euro worth of cocaine into Venezuela. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison. Now, prisons everywhere aren’t exactly fun places to be, but Los Teques where Keany was incarcerated was nothing short of hell on earth.
Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga. Junichi Saga was a doctor by profession. A patient, who was a former Yakuza, recounted his life story before him. Saga recorded the conversations, and broke doctor-patient confidentiality by writing this book.
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden. A dentist named Larry Lavin builds the foundation for a cocaine empire in the United States.
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley. Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent, goes undercover for six years to infiltrate the Mafia. Do watch the movie too, it is Depp’s last movie without weird make-up.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo. Journalist Ioan Grillo has written, arguably, the definitive book on Mexican drug cartels. Why he is still alive is anybody’s guess.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rouge Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh. Venkatesh, who was a sociology grad student at the time, infiltrated one of Chicago’s most notorious gangs. This is one of a kind type of book.
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. This book is about the Italian Crime Network called Camorra in Naples, Italy. Due to his intensive investigative journalism which exposed lot of insider information about the crime syndicate, author Saviano still has to live under constant police protection.
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry. This is a recent book, where the author Alex Perry looks inside the ruthless Calabrian Mafia of Italy and three women who want to save their own and their children’s lives. This is a fascinating and courageous look into an aspect of the Mafia which is often overlooked by most.
Hunting El Chapo: The Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World’s Most Wanted Drug-Lord by Andrew Hogan, Douglas Century. Remember when Joaquin Guzman was caught for the first time and then he escaped and then he was caught again for good? Yes? Then read this one. But this book only focuses on the operation that nabbed him for the first time. I must warn you though – the author, Andrew Hogan – is really really in love with himself and it seeps into his writing.
The Infiltrator: My Secret Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel by Robert Mazur. Mazur went undercover and actually became a money launderer for Pablo Escobar. This book is more about how bankers actively helped to launder the drug money and how Mazur helped to bring them down.
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden. This is the best book about tracking and eventually killing Pablo Escobar. And as Walter Jr. pointed out to Walter White, it focuses on the good guys, not the bad ones. Good companion book to Pablo Escobar: My Father written by Escobar’s son.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail by Rusty Young. The author stays inside San Pedro jail for months with a drug smuggler to chronicle his tale. This is one of the most popular books written on cocaine smuggling.
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny. This is a thorough investigation into organized crime worldwide which accounts for 1/5th of total GDP of the world. This book would please readers who are into extensively researched true-crime history books, not so much a casual reader (inb4 - I just read 5 pages of McMafia and wow… just wow).
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade by Edward Bunker. Edward Bunker had had an eventful life. Incarceration for two and a half decades, being on FBI’s most wanted list, and being a crime novelist. This is his autobiography.
Mr. Nice by Howard Marks. Howard Marks started dealing dope in small quantities while he was studying at Oxford – as you do – and then eventually graduated to dealing it in tons (what the hell was he studying there? Oh, philosophy). This is his fascinating story.
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez. Yet another book that resulted in the author getting death threats. This proves the old cliché true that the pen is mightier than the sword; until the sword comes down and cuts your neck. That’s why the author has to live under constant protection.
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright. Any aspiring drug lords should read this instruction manual. Just kidding. Wainwright goes deep into the functioning of various drug cartels and at the end also comes up with a plan to defeat them.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Little known author tries his hand at true-crime. Pablo Escobar kidnapped 10 journalists when he was on the run from the authorities. This book revolves around that event.
The Night it Rained Guns: Unravelling the Purulia Arms Drop Conspiracy by Chandan Nandy. On a December night in 1995, someone airdropped three weapons-laden wooden pallets over Purulia, West Bengal. Who did it and why? This book tells the story about one of India’s greatest ever security breaches.
No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton. Dobyns was the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the notorious biker gang. This is his story.
Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar. Juan Pablo is an architect and lives and practices his trade in Argentina. Even though Pablo was his father, Juan does not try to justify his actions even a little bit. This is one of the best books written on Pablo Escobar.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe. Sister Ping, leader of the Chinese underworld in the US, earned $40 million a year smuggling people from China. Told from the viewpoints of gangsters, investigators, and poor immigrants alike, this book provides a unique window into the world of human smuggling.
Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History by Michael D. Blutrich. I am disappointed that they went with FBI instead of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the title. Should have made it longer. Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City on the 34th Street Just Opposite the Starbucks, Was Extorted out of 4.54 Millions and 55 Cents Plus Taxes by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in Federal Bureau of Investigation History by Michael Dostoyevsky Blutrich
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein. The author, working as a reporter in Japan, writes about the seedy underbelly of crime in the country.
The Untouchables by Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley. Where’s Nitty? He’s in the car.” Great movie. How Eliot Ness and his team started the downward spiral in criminal career of Al Capone. A somewhat embellished account was also written in the book, but nonetheless, it is a gripping tale.
Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand by K. Vijay Kumar. Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was the last big outlaw of India. A sandalwood smuggler who lived in the forest to evade the police, Veerappan killed hundreds of policemen and civilians. K. Vijay Kumar, the officer who led the task force that ultimately brought down the brigand, is the author of this book.
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi. ” I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? Goodfellas is perhaps the best Mafia movie ever made, so read it in his own words why Pileggi might fold under questioning.
Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss. This Saviano guy must have a death wish. But as a handsome list-writer once eloquently said, “If bitten already by a King Cobra, what difference it makes if you French kiss a Black Mamba?” Since the publication of his book on the Italian crime syndicate, Saviano has to live under constant police protection. So to make sure they don’t slack off, he wrote a book on Cocaine Cartel, this time acquiring lots of admirers in Latin America.
CONMEN, IMPOSTORS.
The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter by Jason Kersten. The Art of making money is to make other people work for you; not the other way round. But more scrupulous method of making money would be to counterfeit it. Art Williams did exactly that.
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale. Maybe the most popular book on this list, Abagnale Jr.’s book is not to be missed even if you have watched the movie starring the actor who had sex with a bear (no, not Tormund).
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock. One “Dr.” John R. Brinkley, set-up a medical practice to surgically insert goat glands in human testicles to restore their fading sex drive. I am not joking, this happened.
Conman: A Master Swindler’s Own Story by J. R. Weil, W. T. Brannon. Known as “Yellow Kid” Weil was a master conman, who duped public of more than $8 million 100 years ago. He’s called by many as the greatest conman of all time (second to the companies that charge service fees on the internet, of course).
Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con Artist by Peter Fenton. Fenton was a math student until he turned into a carnival con artist. How many bananas he stole from the monkeys? How many bales of potatoes from the elephants? Read this book to find out.
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise. If you have any annoying friends who romanticize the Victorian era and say that they would have liked to live there, tell them to read this book and get back to you after that.
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor by Mark Seal. This is the true story of one of the greatest impostors of all time. The man could have impersonated a chihuahua if he wanted to.
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by James Francis Johnson. Viktor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower not once, but twice. I still have the relevant papers that my great grandfather left us. I’m going to shift it to Nauru or Detroit.
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con by Amy Reading. This is a revenge story of a man who sets out to con the conmen who conned him twice. Unfortunately, the book could have been written better, but it is still worth having a look at.
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood. I once tried playing dead in a meeting when asked about the progress on my project. But there are people who fake their death for lesser gains, such as insurance fraud and debt fraud. Author Elizabeth Greenwood journeys into the dark world of death fraud to find out more.
Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff. Charles Ponzi was so successful in duping people that we have immortalized his name by terming such swindles after him. At one point, he was raking in $2 millions a week. How many weeks would it take you to earn 2 million dollars at your current income? (sorry, that got heavy fast. It hurt me too).
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud by Karl Sabbagh. One botanist claimed that some species of plants on the islands south of Scotland survived the last Ice Age. Another botanist doubted him. This might not sound like a big fraud if you are not into plants, but believe me when I say that the 2 botanists who just read this threw their phones away in disgust and disbelief.
Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen. A quack doctor named Linda Hazard developed a technique called “fasting treatment”. The story focuses on two sisters who fell for the quack’s assurances that they would be cured of all the diseases - real or imagined. This book is quite infuriating to read. Hazard was a despicable human being.
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats by Bee Wilson. Wilson looks from ancient Rome to current times for food frauds. And she finds them aplenty (companion read - while having a nice snack).
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History’s Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes and Frauds by Michael Farquhar. This is a good bathroom book about fakers through history.
The Woman Who Wasn’t There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception by Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. Have you heard about Tania Head? If you haven’t, I urge you to skip this book. Tania Head duped survivors of 9/11 and the whole world alike into believing that she was one of the survivors from the South Tower of World Trade Center. I feel enraged just by typing this. So just read this book if you want to know more about her. There are a couple of documentaries out there too.
HACKERS.
The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll. Long before internet became a place for cat memes, Cliff Stoll was working at a research lab as a systems manager. One day he found 75 cents of accounting error. This made him alert that an unauthorized person was logging into the system. Thus began his lone effort of tracking down the spy.
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Phil Lapsley. Before there was internet, or even personal computers, mobsters and teenagers hacked the telephone system.
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. The book tells the story of one of the best hackers of all times, Kevin Mitnick, and his cat and mouse game with the FBI.
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich. A group of bankers manipulated daily interest rates just a fraction here and there on loans worth trillions of dollars and made some serious cash for themselves. This book also rocks one of the ugliest book covers of 2017.
MUTINEERS, PIRATES, OUTLAWS.
Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History’s Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash. I was torn whether to include this book in the list as the history of Batavia’s mutiny is littered with corpses. But as the focus is on the mutiny, I am going to keep it here. This event could give the Medusa’s raft a run for its money.
The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and its Cargo of Female Convicts by Sian Rees. Poor girls in England, most of who were petty thieves, were given a chance to sail to Botany Bay in Australia to create a new life for themselves and the male population of New South Wales. But the real story happened at the sea on board the ship Lady Julian.
The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Thom Hatch. Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty. The book might not be full of memorable dialogues as the movie, but if you want to know more about the legendary outlaws, give this book a chance.
Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks. Mutiny of the Bounty is perhaps the most infamous of mutinies that occurred at sea. Even after the event and hundreds of years later, the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his sailors continue to live a crime-filled life like their forefathers on Pitcairn Island.
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks. This book will change your perception of Captain Kidd, that’s for sure.
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West by Mark Lee Gardner. This non-fiction book concentrates on Sheriff Pat Garrett’s chase in pursuit of the bandit Billy the Kid. If you like reading westerns, this one and The Last Outlaws are not to be missed.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. Cordingly takes a look at life among the pirates. Some of your romanticism would be squashed, but there were some good things about being a pirate too. Life among the pirates was neither black nor white; it was beige.
POLITICAL CRIMES
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson. Three kids won a 300 million dollar contract – legitimately – I must add, to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. They had no money, but still they almost pulled it off. I don’t know, read this book, and if you’re a US citizen, visit the websites mentioned in the book, see if they are still doing business the same way, and if you want, you can become a supplier to the army too. Don’t forget to send me my cut (the movie War Dogs was trash).
The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts. Even if you’re not a United Statian of American (USians?), chances are you might have read at least something about the execution of the Rosenberg couple as spies. This is probably the best book about the subject.
Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Man Behind Them: How America Went to War in Iraq by Bob Drogin. How many weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq? If your answer is “what’s that?” then congratulations, you’re not unlike one of your former presidents. Who told the USians that there were WMDs with Saddam? Curveball.
The Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Perkins was an economic hitman, who at the instruction of US intelligence agencies and giant corporations cajoled and blackmailed other country leaders to serve US foreign policy and award lucrative contracts to American businesses (now that job has been transferred to the White House).
A Kim Jong – Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer. Say you want to make a big movie for your country. But there is no one in your country who can handle such an ambitious project. What do you do? Hire some talent from other country? But you’re Kim Jong – Il. Oh. Then you just kidnap them, and force them to make the glorious movie of yours. Read this book. It’s pretty absurd (the movie they eventually made for Kim was utter shit. The Room would look like Gone with the Wind compared to that abomination).
The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World’s Most Dangerous Secrets… And How We Could Have Stopped Him by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins. One day a man Abdul Qadeer Khan caught a plane to Pakistan from Europe. With him he had blueprints of the mechanism that could prepare weapons grade Uranium that he had stolen from the lab he worked at in the last 3 years. He would make the first atomic bomb for Pakistan with that information. Then he sold the tech to stable countries like Iran, North Korea and Libya. How can someone get away with stealing such powerful information? Read this book to find out.
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen. This is a pretty controversial topic that has only gained wider acknowledgement in recent decades. Read this book to know in detail how bogus the claims of justice being served to the perpetrators of the Holocaust were. Basically, if you were a scientist, you were very likely to be acquitted from any War Crimes allegations.
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina by Uki Goni. How did most of the Nazis who managed to escape from Germany ended up in South America? Read about the collusion of various entities and institutions that made it possible in this book.
The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI’s Hunt for America’s Stolen Secrets by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. This is the true story of a mole in FBI, how he attempted to sell classified information and how FBI tried to track him down.
ROBBERIES, HEISTS.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein. If there is one thief in this list that I admire, it is without a doubt, Attila Ambrus. Ambrus was known as a gentleman thief, who would ask – no, request - the teller to fill his bag with money. If you read this book, it would be hard for you to dislike Attila even though he was a thief.
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Bill Mason, Lee Gruenfeld. Bill Mason looted many famous personalities in his long career as a jewel thief. In this book he tells how he did it.
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson. Do you know there are people whose hobby is fly tying? The feathery thing that you attach to the hook to catch fish? But these are not your average fly tiers. They use feathers from exotic birds to create different ties whose total cost could run in thousands of dollars. Moreover, many of the most coveted birds are either protected or extinct. So one night a man named Edwin Rist broke into Tring museum and took hundreds of bird skins, some that belonged to Darwin, to fuel his hobby and even getting rich by selling precious feathers to other tiers. Don’t miss this book.
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million by Mark Bowden. Who hasn’t dreamt of finding a big bag of money? It couldn’t have happened to a more clueless person. Joey Coyle, to be exact.
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby. The theft from Antwerp that still raises many questions.
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn. The truth is not that romantic.
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby. Pearls, more valuable than the Hope Diamond, are stolen by thieves in Edwardian London.
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. My favorite Crichton book. Stealing gold from a running train! Watch the movie too that stars the great Sean Connery.
Heist: The Oddball Crew Behind the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft by Jeff Diamant. How easy is it to steal 17 million dollars? As far as these thieves were concerned, not much. Getting away with it was another thing altogether. The movie was pretty average, I think.
Into the Blast: The True Story of DB Cooper by Skipp Porteous, Robert Blevins. Is Tommy Wiseau DB Cooper? If only that was true. Read the book but don’t expect any clear-cut answers (I think most people would agree that the clumsy bastard died after he jumped from the plane).
A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle. True story of George Appo, a pickpocket living in nineteenth-century New York.
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich. A guy steals moon rocks from NASA and then had sex on them with his girlfriend (how the hell is that comfortable?)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel. The last hermit was not a hermit in true sense. He didn’t rely on land to feed himself. He stole from the nearby community. Before someone says I have spoiled the book for them, it is revealed in the first chapter that he is a thief.
WHITE COLLAR CRIMES.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The Steve Jobs impersonator, Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, and her old boyfriend, Sunny, are some of the most vile people that I have come across while reading about corporate crime. This is one of the best books that I have read this year.
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart. This is probably the most famous book written about those Wall Street scoundrels.
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation by Dean Jobb. The story of Leo Koretz, who created one of the longest running Ponzi scheme in the 1920s Chicago.
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald. Mark Whitacre becomes an FBI informant against his own corporation. But as time goes by, the FBI starts to realize that Mark is not as truthful as he seems to be, and he has his own agenda (they made a movie with Matt Damon).
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con by Guy Lawson. Sam Israel’s hedge fund was making heavy losses. So naturally, he fabricated fake returns to fool the investors. Then he heard about a secret market from where he could convert his millions into billions. That’s how he lost the last 150 million dollars of his invertors’ money.
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder. Only thing you are going to learn from this book is don’t do business in Russia.
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind. Bethany McLean asked one simple question in her article when everyone else was going gaga over Enron. “What does Enron actually do?” Nobody knew. Even Enron couldn’t give a specific answer. They were not just committing accounting fraud; they were looting ordinary people by creating fake shortage of electricity and driving the prices high. The documentary is worth watching too.
Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony by Gary Stephen Ross. The guy Molony debited huge amounts of money from the bank he worked at to feed his gambling addiction. Oh, and he took the money in other people’s name who held huge accounts there. This is one of the best true-crime books that I have ever read.
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer. You know the man who builds schools in remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan? Great guy, right? Krakauer doesn’t think so. And he’ll tell you why in this short book.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques. 65 billion dollars. That’s the amount that Madoff swindled from people through decades of fraud. I think I can buy a small island country with this much money. The idiot is in jail though. I don’t know, maybe after a couple of billion, skip to a country with no extradition treaty and live the rest of your life without the fear of being getting caught? But then, these types of people don’t know when to stop.
OTHER.
American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside Down --- My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off World’s Casinos by Richard Marcus. The guy ripped-off casinos all over the world by stealing gaming chips while maintaining an illusion of a highroller to lend his eventual take required legitimacy.
Breaking the Rock: The Great Escape from Alcatraz by Jolene Babyak. Written by the daughter of a guard at Alcatraz, this book tells the story of the infamous escape from the prison island. Don’t forget to watch the classic movie too.
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich. The movie 21 was based on this book. But if you want to know the real story, without the whitewashing, you have no choice but to read this book.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales estimates that there are 27 million people worldwide who live as slaves, right now. And yes, slavery still exists in United States of America in case you were wondering. This is a depressing book.
Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T. J. Parsell. Rape in prison is absolutely overlooked almost everywhere. Read this book if you can endure reading about helplessness page after page.
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali’s Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella. Prison systems in developing world differ from the developed one in one regard that the guards and officials there are more corrupt and hence are likely to look the other way when something bad is going down amongst the inmates. Kerobokan Jail in Bali is one of the worst among those.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison by Pete Earley. The author interviewed inmates from Leavenworth Prison for two years. The book is the result of that labor.
The Laundrymen: Inside the World’s Third Largest Business by Jeffrey Robinson. I have a perfect idea to launder money. Laser Tag! Robinson looks at the third largest business in the world. The book was published a while ago, but still hasn’t lost most of its relevancy.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer. Jon releases the Krakauer on one of the most relevant subjects of today. Rapes in colleges. These institutes would do anything to sweep things under the rug to maintain the illusion of clean image in the public eye.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover. The author worked as a prison guard for a year at one of the most notorious prisons of the United States. This book is about his experience.

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Subreddit	Title	Brand
videos	How To Become A Youtube Film Critic	Youtube
worldnews	Mosul IS battle: Mass grave found at Badoush prison, Iraqi forces say - BBC News	BBC
OldSchoolCool	Harrison Ford the carpentry years - 1970s	Ford
funny	Found In A Walmart In Orangeville, Canada	Walmart
mildlyinteresting	My face cream made a Nike swoosh on my brush	Nike
funny	Visited the CN Tower today!	CN
funny	My Dads Facebook Post From the National War Museum Caption "Fuck You Hitler"	Facebook
mildlyinteresting	I think our Target is confused ..	Target
Showerthoughts	The difference between a taxi driver and an Uber driver can be summed up in one sentence: Taxi drivers don't stop at yellow lights.	Uber
worldnews	Dutch police break up pro-Erdogan protest - BBC News	BBC
funny	KIDS INTERRUPT LIVE BBC INTERVIEW	BBC
food	Homemade Apple Smoked Pork Chops with Caramelized Honey Apples and Garlic Mashed Potatoes	Apple
todayilearned	TIL that Bayer came from IG Farben, the company responsible for discovering antibiotics and creating Zyklon B	Bayer
AskReddit	What is your worst Uber ride experience, driver or rider?	Uber
news	Slave auction project: New Jersey school under fire - BBC News	BBC
Showerthoughts	I take Google for granted.`	Google
gaming	[Need For Speed Most Wanted
gaming	[Need For Speed Most Wanted
news	Mosul IS battle: Mass grave found at Badoush prison, Iraqi forces say - BBC News	BBC
worldnews	The Japanese government, fretting over the future of Toshiba Corp's flagship memory chips unit, is prepared to block a sale to bidders it deems a risk to national security, sources said, a stance that gives U.S. suitors a major advantage	Toshiba
mildlyinteresting	My CVS Does Not Deal In Fixing Injuries	CVS
AskReddit	What could you build with an infinite supply of Lego and duplo?	Lego
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: How does an Ed Sheeran album on the Google play store cost more than a monthly subscription to Spotify?	Google
AskReddit	Reddit. What are your favorite bread, salad, cheese and sauce combinations for a Subway sandwich?	Subway
Music	Drake Bell & Josh Peck - Soul Man Rock	Bell
movies	The Scene where Clark Kent returns to the Diner to show the bully who is really The Boss. I just love this entire scene " Terribly sorry about all the Damage, Sir." Ah, so good.	Kent
Showerthoughts	I still haven't forgiven Jurassic World for the Jeep scene. I don't think I ever will.	Jeep
Showerthoughts	How entertaining would a vlog series of couples building IKEA furniture be?	IKEA
Music	How to listen to Youtube Videos without the video	Youtube
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: What is the argument behind not imposing term limits on United States congress members?	United
personalfinance	What are some credit cards I could get, as a 19 year old working at McDonald's part time with zero credit history?	McDonald's
Showerthoughts	I drink Coca-Cola like drug addicts snort cocaine. What a fix!	Coca-Cola
funny	The Michelin Boy	Michelin
funny	Hilarious BBC interview parody	BBC
aww	When you get tired after crashing your daddy's BBC interview	BBC
videos	Sculpting a full-size animatronic T-Rex. Stan Winston Studios footage of the making of the original T-Rex from the first Jurassic Park.	Winston
Jokes	I just found out Microsoft bought Skype for 8.5 billion dollars.	Microsoft
funny	When your friend thinks their BMW can do it all.	BMW
AskReddit	What gun laws do you think would be the best for the United States?	United
videos	Today I Blew Up A Toyota Corolla	Toyota
mildlyinteresting	This Taco Bell order screen has an error message.	Bell
AskReddit	Serious What do you think is a fair compromise on one or more tough political, religious, or social issues in the United States?	United
Jokes	Why did Adobe reader get arrested?	Adobe
Music	Mandolin Orange - Wildfire Folk	Orange
worldnews	Preet Bharara, high profile US prosecutor, says he was fired - BBC News	BBC
Music	Following recent events, here's a great blog post on what kind of visa musicians should get to enter the United States.	United
Showerthoughts	If a broker is someone who arranges transactions between a buyer and a seller for commission when the deal is executed. Then is Uber a brokerage firm for transportation? We are the buyers looking for a ride and the drivers are the sellers willing to give rides. And the app facilitates the deal.	Uber
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: Why is IKEA so controversial? Some people appreciate the furniture, some make fun of it.	IKEA
worldnews	Turkey referendum: Dutch expel Erdogan's minister amid protests - BBC News	BBC
funny	Children interrupt BBC News interview but it's a meme	BBC
videos	Robert Kelly’s BBC interview Parody With New Audio	BBC
Showerthoughts	I wonder if we are moving very fast in technology, or Apple is just releasing iPhones too often	Apple
Showerthoughts	I can't even find a Zombie on Google Earth!	Google
funny	Cleverbot's response to the same CIA questions asked to Alexa and Google Home	Google
Showerthoughts	Do Apple employers also have jailbreaks or something, that "roots" their device?	Apple
television	How does YouTube's new $35-a-month TV service compare with mixing and matching SlingTV, DirecTV Now, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and even Apple Music?	Apple
television	How does YouTube's new $35-a-month TV service compare with mixing and matching SlingTV, DirecTV Now, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and even Apple Music?	DirecTV
worldnews	Rash drivers in India are giving BMW a bad name, with 10 incidents of injuries and and deaths in past 11 months	BMW
funny	Without a Starbucks in sight, this herd of 'Basics' has turned to a life on the rails in search of a new home.	Starbucks
funny	I lost it! The best BBC News interview of all times!	BBC
Music	Oasis - Interview at Loch Lomond 1996 MTV / Liam, Noel, Guigsy, Alan	MTV
worldnews	Turkey referendum: Clashes as Dutch expel minister - BBC News	BBC
worldnews	SXSW 2017: Disney 'not in the business of scaring kids!' - BBC News	BBC
AskReddit	Customer support people working for the likes of Google and Microsoft, what have been your worst and best experiences while providing support?	Google
videos	Kids Interrupt BBC Interview Live	BBC
aww	You guys asked for more of Zara - here she is playing with her favourite toy... and, no more collar bell!	Zara
aww	Little miss Zara - strutting her stuff	Zara
EarthPorn	Ireland. But no, not Cliffs of Moher. This is Mizen Head, the most Southwest point in Ireland OC 4585x3257	Southwest
videos	Amazon Alexa and Google Home compare Man Flu symptoms!	Google
worldnews	Turkey referendum: Clashes as Dutch expel minister - BBC News	BBC
worldnews	Ethiopia's rubbish landslide kills 15 in Addis Ababa - BBC News	BBC
WritingPrompts	WP After the latest update moving dots appear on Google Maps. You realize they're cars on the road with you. You click on one and a picture with a name pops up. Underneath the picture are links: online activity, user names/passwords, travel log, purchase history.	Google
AskReddit	What popular Youtube channel do you think is dying out?	Youtube
gaming	Does No Man's Sky deserve a second chance?	Sky
news	Cancer has touched the lives of most American families, according to a recent CBS News Poll.	CBS
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: Why do Americans pronounce Nissan "nee-sahn" but Brits pronounce it "niss-en"?	Nissan
pics	I suspect an additional word was or will be involved in this Target display soon.	Target
gaming	My experience with steep during the Xbox free to play weekend	Xbox
movies	‘Baby Driver’ Review: Edgar Wright’s Brilliant Car Chase Musical Casts Ansel Elgort As an Outlaw Fred Astaire — SXSW 2017	Chase
AskReddit	Serious Is typing "hiddenwiki" in Google Chrome and opening the site that pops up dangerous? If yes, why is that possible to do in the first place?	Google
AskReddit	AskRedditors, why do you waste our time with questions that can easily be answered with a simple Google search?	Google
videos	Neil dEgrasse Tyson Statements & Interview 3/10/2017.	Tyson
Showerthoughts	Twice a year, I only trust Google to tell me what time it is.	Google
mildlyinteresting	My girlfriend snapped a picture with me and one of my science heroes, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday.	Tyson
videos	Can ANYBODY decipher what the narrator says in the first 5 seconds of this Youtube review? I'm laughing my ass off trying to make sense of his garbled talk. Thanks!	Youtube
pics	Chizza from KFC in Paris	KFC
LifeProTips	LPT: if you can't afford/manage to get your Girl Scout cookies this season, Walmart sells a perfect copycat under their own brand.	Walmart
mildlyinteresting	My mom works for Colgate and got me a year of shower supplies so cheap.	Colgate
history	How did Europe and the rest of the world react to the United States civil war?	United
OldSchoolCool	Harrison Ford driving on set of the Empire Strikes back, 1980	Ford
Music	Kenny Rogers - You can't make old friends country	Rogers
funny	When he realizes the BMW can't do everything.	BMW
pics	A photoshop project popped up in my Facebook memories..	Facebook
AskReddit	What are ways of checking the credibility of a source from what someone posts, Facebook news feed, Donald Trump, etc.? serious	Facebook
personalfinance	My brother wants access to my Paypal because of convoluted reasons. If I take off my bank and bank card but leave address, phone number, and SS#, can anything come back to bite me?	Paypal
todayilearned	TIL that Bell X-1 piloted by Chuck Yeager, was the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.	Bell
pics	The Hickory Horned Devil Caterpillar - do NOT step on this thing	Caterpillar
aww	My first dog and greatest companion! We took Winston home at 4 weeks as the little ball of fluff and rolls he was. He just celebrated his 10th birthday and is still as cuddly and clumsy as the day he came into our life! sorry for the poor quality pics!	Winston
aww	My Uber driver had his family's photos taped on his steering. Now they literally drive him.	Uber
news	America's First Solar Roadway Is A Total Disaster	Total
todayilearned	TIL that the incarceration rate of the United States of America has the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population	United
funny	I asked for Sadness in my Hot Chocolate. Starbucks really delivers.	Starbucks
Futurology	In self-driving race, Hyundai rides alone	Hyundai
mildlyinteresting	Marion Maréchal-Le Pen's two Google images complete each other perfectly	Google
personalfinance	Chase Freedom vs Capital One Quicksilver	Capital One
AskReddit	If you Google yourself, what is the most awkward thing you can find?	Google
television	Popular Blackjack Professional Card Counter Banned From ANOTHER Casino '	Casino
AskReddit	How can we get Google Maps to stop showing our community's private road as accessible to everyone?	Google
aww	"We love the UPS guy!"	UPS
AskReddit	What Twitter accounts do you know that are absolute gold mines?	Twitter
AskReddit	How does a girl about 15 is able to wear a huge cleavage showing almost everything at Walmart but her parents were right there?	Walmart
Documentaries	Farewell Arabia 1968 The Oil Industry's Dramatic Effect on Life in Arabian Society in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	United
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: Why are the most popular non-music videos on Youtube all about princess or superhero toys and really poorly made?	Youtube
food	Homemade Orange cake!	Orange
todayilearned	TIL: The McDonald's in Roswell, New Mexico is built in the shape of a UFO	McDonald's
news	Immigration tensions seep into South by Southwest music fest	Southwest
personalfinance	Student Cards Discover IT or Citi ThankYou	Citi
personalfinance	Student Cards Discover IT or Citi ThankYou	Discover
AskReddit	What Youtube channels do you suggest I watch?	Youtube
TwoXChromosomes	How do you deal with Facebook messages from strangers?	Facebook
Jokes	What would Mike Tyson say to someone using methamphetamines?	Tyson
news	Turkey referendum: Clashes as Dutch expel minister - BBC News	BBC
pics	Let's all take a moment to appreciate the 45th president of the United States of America	United
worldnews	No evidence yet of crime in Ben Keita's death, FBI says - CBS News	CBS
Showerthoughts	If the Google Maps lady was real, she'd probably be super sexually frustrated because I rarely ever let her finish	Google
gaming	I think Nintendo and Microsoft really should come to some sort of agreement here	Microsoft
AskReddit	People who have been banned on Twitter by a Celebrity what did you do ?	Twitter
Music	Immigration tensions seep into South by Southwest music fest	Southwest
Showerthoughts	Taco Bell crunchy tacos are like a side of fries at burger joint	Bell
pics	Cadillac Mountain, ME & Cape Alava, WA - claimed to be the first and last places, respectfully, to see the sunrise/sunset in the Continental USA.	Continental
Music	Fanfarlo - Life in the Sky Indie Rock/Indie Folk	Sky
funny	My little cousin was using Xbox live to search for some important answers	Xbox
AskReddit	Other than the President of the United States, who should we bring the aliens to if they ask for Earth's leader?	United
todayilearned	TIL Joseph Hazelwood, Captain of the Exxon Valdez which, in 1989, discharged around 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound never had his masters' license revoked and it remains valid to this date. He is referred to as "Saint Joe" in the movie Waterworld.	Exxon
todayilearned	TIL that Ford created advertisements for the Ford Fusion using DBZ character's and an unlisted Youtube video.	Ford
todayilearned	TIL that Ford created advertisements for the Ford Fusion using DBZ character's and an unlisted Youtube video.	Youtube
movies	Ill Stan Lee pulls out of Big Apple Comic Con	Apple
mildlyinteresting	The Publix I shop at censors all publications with Trumps image on it at the checkout line.	Publix
Music	Voss FM playing music in Southwest UK having a taster sesh. Check it out. Chill vibes.	Southwest
todayilearned	TIL in 1998 Sony released a videocam that could see through clothes while in an infrared recording mode; 600,000 units were recalled.	Sony
mildlyinteresting	Apparently Porsche made tractors at some point	Porsche
mildlyinteresting	This Subway coffee cup lid closes the mouth-hole by twisting the top.	Subway
Music	Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day Post-Rock	Sky
Showerthoughts	I wish I could ask Google where I put something in my house that I can't find.	Google
videos	Very Casual Saxophone Battle On NYC Subway Train	Subway
explainlikeimfive	ELI5: How does one make money off of a website that doesn't sell anything, such as Facebook or Twitter?	Facebook
AskReddit	What are your views on Google changing its logo font from Times New Roman to the abomination we see today?	Google
todayilearned	TIL That the United States is very Corrupt The Human Experiment Documentary	United
AskReddit	You are strapped in Costco and have to defend against a murderer for one week. You have 48 hours prep, what do you do?	Costco
explainlikeimfive	ELI5 Facebook Ads?	Facebook
funny	I'm pretty sure Yahoo got trolled by a graphic designer... #TrustYourDickButt	Yahoo
todayilearned	TIL 21.7% of United States Prison Inmates Are Not U.S. Citizens	United
mildlyinteresting	Taco Bell hot sauce packet doesn't have the usual funny phrase printed on the front.	Bell
mildlyinteresting	Found this in my nearest Walmart and I thought you guys might like to see this gem	Walmart
AskReddit	What do you think of the way that man handled the situation when his 2 children walked into the room during the BBC interview?	BBC
food	Homemade Berry Rose Apple Pie	Apple
mildlyinteresting	A man in front of me at Costco bought 88 gallons of milk.	Costco
AskReddit	You have been invited to address a Joint Meeting of the United States Congress at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. All 100 US Senators and 435 US Representatives will be in attendance. What is your speech?	United
listentothis	Mars Red Sky -- The Mindreader doom / prog 2016	Sky
worldnews	A Russian government spokesman expressed impatience Sunday that bilateral relations with the United States have not improved more quickly since US President Donald Trump took office.	United
aww	My dog Pepsi is 16 today! I think she has earned a nice nap!	Pepsi
Showerthoughts	What if Google is actually evil company, but nobody would know because they filter Google search?	Google
mildlyinteresting	This truck I saw at Walmart today.	Walmart
OldSchoolCool	Me and my 1966 Model 88 Land Rover in 1987 - It had M1 Garand rifle racks front & back, made to be dropped from 10K feet, all hydraulic, aluminum body, etc.	Land Rover
videos	That BBC interview that gets interrupted...by ME!	BBC
videos	My friend created the amazing music box animation that went viral a year ago. McDonald's stole it to use as a commercial in Korea. Original and comparison in comments.	McDonald's
funny	VAGINAS Sony receiver	Sony
Art	My take on Lichtenstein's Girl in Window. Done on my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil :-	Apple
todayilearned	TIL that most photocopiers and scanners can detect and refuse to scan currency, as well as Adobe Photoshop	Adobe
food	homemade KFC copy cat coleslaw	KFC
gaming	No Man's Sky cool base I've been working on	Sky
mildlyinteresting	This Ghost In The Shell -like sewage logo	Shell
space	Ultra Deep Field Sky Walker	Sky
AskReddit	If fictional supervillains from the Marvel / DC universe came to life, how would they REALLY be handled by the United States government?	United
mildlyinteresting	The 'globe' Facebook notifications icon rotated after I traveled from the US to Japan.	Facebook
videos	The secret to making KFC Popcorn Chicken	KFC
AskReddit	You, Simon Cowell, Finn Balor, and Michael Fassbender are all chilling at a Casino in St. Louis. What do you do next?	Casino
WritingPrompts	WP You are an agent for a private militia, your aim is to eradicate all nuclear weaponry on earth, But when you reach command HQ- you find that the nuclear weapons have nothing to do with human wars, but are a global, United defence system for a much larger threat...	United

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (hmmmmmmm)
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say?
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH".
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us.
A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
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Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
Ham radio operators got the term "ham" coined from the expression "ham fisted operators," a term used to describe early radio users who sent Morse code (i.e., pounded their fist).
The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
Chinese Crested dogs can get acne.
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.
Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. (A reader of this page stated that this statement is not true: Aerogel is the densest solid in the world at 1mg/cc.)
Each year there is one ton of cement poured for each man woman and child in the world.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
The only capital letter in the Roman alphabet with exactly one end point is P.
The giant red star Betelgeuse has a diameter larger than that of the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteat uripukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenua kitanatahu -- a New Zealand hill. (See if your spell check has this word)
Los Angeles's full name is: "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de losAngeles de Poriuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, "LA."
Only 1 in 2,000,000,000 will live to be 116 or older.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called tackyon, which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it.
When you tie a noose, the rope is wrapped twelve times around because it's the same length as a person’s head.
Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
A cat's jaw cannot move sideways.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. ( In your next life do you want to be a pig?)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home ..maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates mating by ripping the male's head off.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)
Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)
Polar bears are left-handed (Who knew...? Who cares!)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Maine is the only state (in USA) whose name is just one syllable.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A 2" X 4" is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".
During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily (I knew it!).
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver. What about "month?"
The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before.
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist that discovered this??)
Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow film down while shooting so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
An old law in Bellingham, Washington made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (The suits or the astronauts?)
Some More Things You May NOT Have Known

Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickle the company once had.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.
The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.
40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.
315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

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