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Non-fiction that you shouldn't waste your time on

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1

1421: The Year China Discovered America

by Gavin Menzies

3,621 members

95 reviews

3.2

6 Members: lorax, DaynaRT, eromsted, longway, Ravic, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: lorax: Credulous nonsense - there may be some bits of this that are true, but there's so much in here that's obviously wrong that it's hard to figure out what might actually be right.

2

Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

by Erich von Däniken

2,853 members

59 reviews

2.9

3 Members: Ravic, aulsmith, ManWithAnAgenda

3

A Child Called "It"

9,439 members

321 reviews

3.9

2 Members: kageeh, lahochstetler

4

There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA (Earth Chronicles)

by Zecharia Sitchin

121 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: Ravic, ManWithAnAgenda

5

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe

by Thomas Cahill

7,186 members

101 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: BookCentric, ManWithAnAgenda,

6

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

by Arthur Herman

2,914 members

39 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thorold, ManWithAnAgenda,

7

Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions

by Leland Gregory

386 members

36 reviews

3

Member: daschaich

8

It Happened in Italy

by Elizabeth Bettina

133 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: lilithcat

9

Die Evolutionslüge. Die Neandertaler und andere Fälschungen der Menschheitsgeschichte

by Hans-Joachim Zillmer

7 members

½ 2.5

Member: Ravic

10

by Andrew Schlafly

1 member

1 review

½ 0.5

Member: Edward

11

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

by Emanuel Derman

434 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: daschaich

12

The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

by William Dear

157 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

13

Writing Ancient History

by Neville Morley

50 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: Edward

14

Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America

by Susan J. Marks

36 members

10 reviews

1.9

Member: lorax

15

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

by Roger Penrose

3,452 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: lorax

16

A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman

3,169 members

35 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Myths We Live By

by Mary Midgley

297 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: daschaich

18

Mistake Earth Science: Expanding Earth Versus Plate Tectonics: Primeval Times Happened Yesterday

by Hans-Joachim Zillmer

15 members

1 review

2

Member: Ravic

19

Return to the stars

by Erich von Däniken

861 members

5 reviews

½ 2.4

Member: Ravic

20

Historical Truth and Lies About the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan

by Alan B. Spitzer

21 members

1 review

2

Member: daschaich

21

In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End

193 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: daschaich

22

Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age

by Charles H. Hapgood

397 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: Ravic

23

Das erfundene Mittelalter. Die größte Zeitfälschung der Geschichte.

by Heribert Illig

60 members

4 reviews

½ 2.6

Member: Ravic

24

Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht - Wie 300 Jahre Mittelalter erfunden wurden

by Heribert Illig

24 members

1

Member: Ravic

25

Chronologie und Katastrophismus : vom ersten Menschen bis zum drohenden Asteroideneinschlag

by Heribert Illig

1 member

Member: Ravic

26

Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

6,686 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Ravic

27

Darwin's Mistake: Antediluvian Discoveries Prove Dinosaurs and Humans Co-Existed

by Hans-Joachim Zillmer

20 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: Ravic

28

Worlds in Collision

by Immanuel Velikovsky

907 members

18 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Ravic

29

Earth in Upheaval

by Immanuel Velikovsky

453 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Ravic

30

Ages in Chaos: From the Exodus To King Akhnaton

by Immanuel Velikovsky

272 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Ravic

31

Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History

by Immanuel Velikovsky

183 members

4 reviews

3.1

Member: Ravic

32

When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish

by Lisa Seachrist Chiu

108 members

3 reviews

3

Member: norabelle414,

33

Peoples of the Sea

by Immanuel Velikovsky

190 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Ravic

34

Ramses II and His Time (Ages of Chaos)

by Immanuel Velikovsky

172 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Ravic

35

The 12th Planet

by Zecharia Sitchin

1,006 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Ravic

36

The Stairway to Heaven

by Zecharia Sitchin

442 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Ravic

37

Genesis Revisited

by Zecharia Sitchin

383 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Ravic

38

The Wars of Gods and Men

by Zecharia Sitchin

373 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Ravic

39

The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial God

by Zecharia Sitchin

230 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Ravic

40

The Day after Roswell

by Philip Corso

536 members

12 reviews

3.1

Member: Ravic

41

Fingerprints of the Gods

by Graham Hancock

2,115 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Ravic

42

The Sign and the Seal: The quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant

by Graham Hancock

1,114 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Ravic

43

Supernatural : meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind

by Graham Hancock

492 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: Ravic

44

Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report

by Francesco Carotta

29 members

1 review

2.8

Member: Ravic

45

The Physics of Star Trek

by Lawrence M. Krauss

2,170 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: daschaich,DaynaRT , ,

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