Books
Bailey, F. G. The Prevalence of Deceit. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Barnes, J.A. A Pack of Lies: Towards a Sociology of Lying. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Bok, Sissela. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life. New York: Pantheon, 1978; Vintage, 1979.
Cabot, Richard C. Honesty. New York: Macmillan, 1938.
Campbell, Jeremy. The Liar’s Tale: A History of Falsehood. New York: Norton, 2001.
Ekman, Paul. Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage. New York: Norton, 2001.
Ford, Charles V. Lies! Lies! Lies! The Psychology of Deceit. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1996.
Kerr, Philip, ed. The Penguin Book of Lies. New York: Viking, 1990.
Scott, Gini Graham. The Truth About Lying: Why We All Do It, How We Do It, and Can We Live Without It? Petaluma, CA: Smart Publications, 1994.
Shapin, Steven. A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Sullivan, Evelin. The Concise Book of Lying. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Williams, Bernard. Truth and Truthfulness. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Essays
Allon, Dafna. “Reflections on the Art of Lying, Commentary, June 1986.
Augustine. “Lying.” In Treatises on Various Subjects. Sister Mary Sarah Muldowney trans. Roy J. Deferrari ed. New York: Fathers of the Church, 1952.
Augustine. “Against Lying.” In ibid. Trans. Harold B. Jaffee.
Bacon, Francis. “Of Truth.” In Essays, Advancement of Learning, New Atlantis, and Other Pieces. Ed. Richard Foster Jones. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1937.
Black, Max. “The Prevalence of Humbug.” In The Prevalance of Humbug and Other Essays, 115-43. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Boyers, Robert. “Observations on Lying and Liars.” Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry 13 (1974): 150-68.
Brougham, T. Alan. “Some Notes on the Art of Lying.” New England Review, 93-100, Spring 1994.
Frankfurt, Harry. “On Bullshit.” Raritan 6 (1986): 81-100.
Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck. “Why Not Lie?” Soundings 68 (1985): 493-509.
Montaigne, Michel de. “On Liars.” In Essays. J. M. Cohen, trans. Baltimore: Penguin, 1958.
Rich, Adrienne. “Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying.” In On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. New York: Norton, 1979.