Non-fiction on conspiracy theories & conspiracies

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  1. David Aaronovitch – Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (2009)
  2. Richard J. Aldrich – The Hidden Hand (2001)
  3. John L. Allen Jr. – Opus Dei: An Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church (2005)
  4. Michael Barkun – A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (2003)
  5. David V. Barrett – Secret Societies: From the Ancient and Arcane to the Modern and Clandestine (1998)
  6. Georges Bataille – The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale and Lectures to the College of Sociology (2017)
  7. David H. Bennett – The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History (1988)
  8. Gill Bennett – The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies (2018)
  9. Eiríkur Bergmann – Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation (2018)
  10. Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons – Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort (1997)
  11. Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein – Der Mythos Von Der Verschwörung: Philosophen, Freimaurer, Juden, Liberale Und Sozialisten Als Verschwörer Gegen Die Sozialordnung (1992)
  12. Greg Bishop – Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth (2005)
  13. William Blum – Killing Hope: U.S. and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II–Updated Through 2003 (1995)
  14. Howard Blum – Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials (1990)
  15. Luc Boltanski – Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies (2012)
  16. Eliot Borenstein – Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy After Socialism (2019)
  17. Walter H. Bowart – Operation Mind Control (1978)
  18. Tom Bower – The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists (1987)
  19. Jack Z. Bratich – Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008)
  20. Erica de Bruin – How to Prevent Coups d’État: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival (2020)
  21. Thom Burnett – Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories (2005)
  22. Michael Butter – Plots, Designs, and Schemes: American Conspiracy Theories from the Puritans to the Present (2014)
  23. Michael Butter, Sharon Howe – The Nature of Conspiracy Theories (2020)
  24. Michael Butter, Peter Knight – Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories (2020)
  25. Michael Butter, Maurus Reinkowski – Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East: A Comparative Approach (2014)
  26. Jovan Byford – Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (2011)
  27. Gregory S. Camp – Selling Fear: Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Paranoia (1997)
  28. John Carter, Robert Anton Wilson, Jack Whiteside Parsons, Aleister Crowley, Phyllis Seckler, Frank J. Malina – Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons (1999)
  29. Stephanie Caruana – A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File: Summary of Bruce Roberts’ Gemstone File Letters (2015)
  30. Colin Challen – Price of Power: The Secret Funding of the Tory Party (1998)
  31. Tobias Churton – The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons (2002)
  32. David Clarke – How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth (2015)
  33. David Coady – Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006)
  34. Samuel Coale – Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction (2005)
  35. Alex Constantine – Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America (1997)
  36. Robert L.D. Cooper – Cracking the Freemasons Code: The Truth About Solomon’s Key and the Brotherhood (2006)
  37. Arkon Daraul – A History Of Secret Societies (1961)
  38. David Brion Davis – The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present (1971)
  39. David Brion Davis – The Slave Power Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style (1982)
  40. Jodi Dean – Aliens in America (1998)
  41. Jodi Dean – Publicity’s Secret (2002)
  42. Lance Dehaven-Smith – Conspiracy Theory in America (2013)
  43. Matthew R. X. Dentith – The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories (2014)
  44. Mark Dice – The Bohemian Grove: Facts & Fiction (2015)
  45. G. William Domhoff – The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats (1974)
  46. Asbjrn Dyrendal, David Robertson, Egil Asprem – Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion (2018)
  47. Joan D’Arc – Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts (2015)
  48. Rachel Ehrenfeld – Evil Money: The Inside Story of Money Laundering and Corruption in Government Bank and Business (1992)
  49. Paul Elliott – Warrior Cults: A History of Magical, Mystical and Murderous Organizations (1996)
  50. F. William Engdahl – Myths, Lies and Oil Wars (2012)
  51. Ralph Epperson – The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratoral View of History (1985)
  52. Robert Eringer – The Global Manipulators (2011)
  53. Mark Fenster – Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (1999)
  54. Mark Fenster – The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information (2017)
  55. Jean-Pierre Filiu – From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy (2015)
  56. J.S. La Fontaine – Speak of the Devil: Tales of Satanic Abuse in Contemporary England (1998)
  57. Daniele Ganser – NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (2004)
  58. Stephen Gill – American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (1990)
  59. Richard M. Gilman – Behind World Revolution: The Strange Career of Nesta H. Webster: 001 (1982)
  60. Joscelyn Godwin – Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism & Nazi Survival (1992)
  61. Ben Goldacre – Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (2012)
  62. Robert Alan Goldberg – Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America (2001)
  63. Paul Goodman – Towards a Christian Republic: Antimasonry & the Great Transition in New England 1826-36 (1988)
  64. Arndt Graf – Orientalism and Conspiracy: Politics and Conspiracy The… (2010)
  65. Carl F. Graumann – Changing Conceptions of Conspiracy (1987)
  66. Matthew Gray – Conspiracy Theories in the Arab World: Sources and Politics (2010)
  67. John Michael Greer – Inside a Magical Lodge: Group Ritual in the Western Tradition (1951)
  68. Doğan Gürpınar – Conspiracy Theories in Turkey: Conspiracy Nation (2019)
  69. Jaron Harambam – Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability (2020)
  70. Daniel Hellinger, Dennis R. Judd – The Democratic Facade (1997)
  71. Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988)
  72. Al Hidell – The Complete Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government-Sponsored Alien Coverups (2003)
  73. Stanley Hoffmann – Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War (1980)
  74. Richard Hofstadter – The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays (1964)
  75. Michael Howard – The Occult Conspiracy: Secret Societies – Their Influence and Power in World History (1989)
  76. Todor Hristov – Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth (2019)
  77. Margaret C. Jacob – Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe (1991)
  78. Emma A. Jane, Chris Fleming – Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (2014)
  79. Loch K. Johnson – America’s Secret Power: The CIA in a Democratic Society (1989)
  80. Bertrand De Jouvenel – On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (1945)
  81. Konstandinos Kalimtgis – Dope, Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against The U.S. (1978)
  82. David Keenan – England’s Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground (2002)
  83. Dexter M. Keezer – A Unique Contribution to International Relations : The Story of Wilton Park (1973)
  84. Jim Keith – Mind Control, World Control: The Encyclopedia of Mind Control (1998)
  85. Jim Keith – Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas and Hidden History (1993)
  86. Stephen Kinzer – Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006)
  87. Stephen Kinzer – Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (2019)
  88. Peter Knight – Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files (2000)
  89. Peter Knight – Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America (2002)
  90. Peter Knight – Conspiracy Theories in American History [2 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia (2003)
  91. Jeffrey J. Kripal – Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (2007)
  92. Erica Lagalisse, Barbara Ehrenreich – Occult Features of Anarchism: With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples (2019)
  93. Martin A. Lee – Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties & Beyond (1984)
  94. Stuart W. Leslie – The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at Mit and Stanford (1993)
  95. Peter Levenda – Sinister Forces—The Manson Secret: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft (2006)
  96. Robert S. Levine – Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville (1989)
  97. Dorothy Ann Lipson – Freemasonry in Federalist Connecticut, 1789-1835 (2015)
  98. Nancy Lusignan – Fear Itself: Enemies Real & Imagined in American Culture (2014)
  99. David Lyon – Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society (1994)
  100. Arthur Lyons, Marcello Truzzi – The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives And Crime (1991)
  101. Mari-Liis Madisson, Andreas Ventsel – Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach (2020)
  102. George E. Marcus – Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation (1999)
  103. John D. Marks – The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control (1979)
  104. Jonathan Marshall – Iran Contra-Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (1986)
  105. Joseph Masco – The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006)
  106. Joseph Masco – The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect fro… (2014)
  107. Brian Massumi – Politics Of Everyday Fear (1993)
  108. Edwin C. May, Victor Rubel, Joseph W. McMoneagle, Loyd Auerbach – ESP Wars: East & West: An Account of the Military Use of Psychic Espionage as Narrated by the Key Russian and American Players (2014)
  109. Jane Mayer – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016)
  110. David McGowan – Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream (2014)
  111. Julian de Medeiros – Conspiracy Theory in Turkey: Politics and Protest in the Age of ‘Post-Truth’ (2018)
  112. Timothy Melley – Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (1999)
  113. Timothy Melley – The Covert Sphere (2012)
  114. Anna Merlan – Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power (2019)
  115. Kris Millegan – Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society (2003)
  116. George Monbiot – Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain (2000)
  117. Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders – Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa (2001)
  118. Richard E. Morgan – Domestic Intelligence: Monitoring Dissent in America (1980)
  119. Debbie Nathan – Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (1995)
  120. Michael Newton – The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories (2005)
  121. Carl Oglesby – The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate (1976)
  122. Kathryn S. Olmsted – Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (2008)
  123. Patrick O’Donnell – Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000)
  124. Brendan O’Malley – The Cyprus Conspiracy: America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion (2000)
  125. Tom O’Neill – Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (2019)
  126. Andreas Önnerfors – Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction (2018)
  127. Victoria Emma Pagán – Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History (2005)
  128. Victoria Emma Pagán – Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature (2012)
  129. Michael Parenti – Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America (1993)
  130. Jane Parish – Age of Anxiety (2001)
  131. Robert Parry – Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’ (1999)
  132. Peter Partner – The Murdered Magicians (1982)
  133. David Paulides – Missing 411: Western United States and Canada (2011)
  134. John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)
  135. Alexander Piatigorsky – Who’s Afraid Of Freemasons (1997)
  136. John Pilger – Hidden Agendas (1998)
  137. Mark Pilkington – Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs (2010)
  138. Daniel Pipes – Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From (1997)
  139. Gerald Posner – Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies-The New Mafia (1988)
  140. Ray Pratt – Projecting Paranoia: Conspiratorial Visions in American Film (2001)
  141. Carroll Quigley – Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
  142. Robin Ramsay – Conspiracy Theories (2000)
  143. Robin Ramsay – Who Shot JFK? (2002)
  144. Robin Ramsay – Politics and Paranoia (2008)
  145. J.M. Roberts – The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1972)
  146. Pat Robertson – The New World Order (1991)
  147. William I. Robinson – Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony (1996)
  148. Michael Rogin – Ronald Reagan The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology (1987)
  149. Joseph Roisman – The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens (2006)
  150. Frances Stonor Saunders – Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999)
  151. Jim Schnabel – Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies (1997)
  152. James C. Scott – Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts (1990)
  153. Peter Dale Scott – Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (1991)
  154. Peter Dale Scott – Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1996)
  155. Gene Sharp – From Dictatorship to Democracy (1993)
  156. Gene Sharp – How Nonviolent Struggle Works (2013)
  157. Gene Sharp, Marina Finkelstein – The Methods of Nonviolent Action (1973)
  158. Martin Short – Inside the Brotherhood: Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons (1989)
  159. Laurence H. Shoup – Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy (1977)
  160. Elaine Showalter – Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture (1997)
  161. Norodom Sihanouk – My War With The CIA: The Memoirs Of Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1973)
  162. Holly Sklar – Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management (1980)
  163. Douglas Smith – Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia (1999)
  164. Paul H. Smith – Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate: America’s Psychic Espionage Program (2005)
  165. David Stevenson – The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland’s Century, 1590-1710 (1988)
  166. Rick Strassman, Slawek Wojtowicz, Luis Eduardo Luna, Ede Frecska – Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies (2008)
  167. Anthony Summers – The Kennedy Conspiracy (1980)
  168. Cass R. Sunstein – Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas (2014)
  169. Gerald Suster – The Hell-Fire Friars: Sex, Politics and Religion (2002)
  170. Katharina Thalmann – The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s: “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish” (2019)
  171. Athan G. Theoharis – The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition (1988)
  172. Gregory F. Treverton – Covert Action: The CIA and American Intervention in the Postwar World (1987)
  173. Joseph E. Uscinski – American Conspiracy Theories (2014)
  174. Joseph E. Uscinski – Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them (2018)
  175. Jacques F. Vallée – Revelations (1991)
  176. Jonathan Vankin – Conspiracies, Cover Ups And Crimes (1991)
  177. William Preston Vaughn – The Anti-Masonic Party in the United States: 1826-1843 (2009)
  178. Jesse Walker – The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory (2012)
  179. Harriet A. Washington – Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2007)
  180. Gary Webb – Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (2011)
  181. Eileen Welsome – The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
  182. Harry G. West – Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order (2003)
  183. Philip P. Willan – Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy (2002)
  184. Robert Anton Wilson – Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (1998)
  185. David Wise – The Invisible Government (1964)
  186. Adrian Wisnicki – Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel (2007)
  187. David A. Yallop – In God’s Name: An Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (1984)
  188. Hugo Young – This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (1998)
  189. John van der Zee – The Greatest Men’s Party on Earth: Inside the Bohemian Grove (1974)
  190. Theodore Ziolkowski – Lure of the Arcane: the Literature of Cult and Conspiracy (2013)
  191. Александра Архипова, Анна Кирзюк – Опасные советские вещи: Городские легенды и страхи в СССР (2020)
  192. Михаил Хлебников – “Теория заговора”: опыт социокультурного исследования (2012)
  193. Илья Яблоков – Русская культура заговора: Конспирологические теории на постсоветском пространстве (2020)

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