Fun question from @Sam__Enright: What’s the “anti-reading list” in your field of expertise?

I have many fields of expertise.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is an atrocious book that teaches you nothing, or if it manages more than that is completely wrong. A book designed to make stupid people feel smart. Read specialist books or textbooks in this and related fields instead. Do not fall prey to this utter piece of shit or you will become much dumber than you were before.

Helogland by Carlo Rovelli. Full of wrong information. I don’t mean that it’s my opinion that it’s wrong. A lot of the most important parts of the book are directly contradicted by actual experiments conducted in the real world, including some Nobel-prize-winning ones.

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. Just a clueless work that marshals poor evidence in service of murky points. Avoid.

There are other books in the thread, but these are ones I did not see mentioned that are also atrocious and cause you to know less than you did than when you started. And all are in fields I know enough about to say that yes, they are 100% full of bullcrap.