I think it was called " how to analyse people on sight", it says that fat people are the happiest of all people due always being full, and not being interested in any serious topics. If a fat person doesn’t have food they will become angry. It basically creates different types of personalities for different body types. It’s an interesting read but definitely not worth taking seriously

Karl May, famous in Germay, wrote tons of books about his travels and adventures in the US, Africa and the Middle East 150 years ago. His books and storys were very succesfull. There are many movies based on his books, there even was a museum showing his famous rifles he used….

Well, he never went to any of this places.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was written in the 14th century and is a supposedly true account of his travels in Asia. It includes such claims as him seeing a tree that has lambs growing on its branches (which bend down to allow the lambs to eat the surrounding grass), and a race of people who have a single leg with a giant foot on it that they use as an umbrella.

I also have a medical dictionary which says lesbians have a tendency to smoke pipes, which is not something I’ve particularly noticed.

I like these weird compendiums of imaginary worlds/creatures/etc…

Voynich Manuscript

The Codex Seraphinianus

The Grimoire Encyclopaedia: Volume 1: A convocation of spirits, texts, materials, and practices

I have a decent collection of Mormon literature, many of which include teachings that the leaders of the church today say were never taught or were never accepted as official doctrine. This includes teachings of the Blood Atonement, polygamy, racism, temple ordinance changes, and lies/theological changes told by the founder Joseph Smith. I think this falls into that category.

Disclaimer: I am an ex-Mormon, so I partially have some of these books because I used to believe it all. After I learned the truth and left, I started to collect the older volumes in my meager attempt to preserve the history that is constantly being white-washed by church leaders today. I’m determined to not let this history be erased.

For about 20 years, Dow 36,000 was the financial version of this.

I have a copy of “What Men Know About Women” and every page is blank.

The Necronomicon

My personal favorite in that category is “Atlas Shrugged”! As I… very liked this book when I read it, I will admit that. BUT… I did read it as a science fiction adventure drama, not knowing or even suspecting it have all this real-world stuff attached to its author. For sci-fi it was incredible thought provoker all the way to the finish. At the time of reading I genuinely thought that its “wrongness” was the goal to provide a platform for discussion… eh…

A ROMANCE OF TWO WORLDS by Marie Corelli is full of wrongnesses. I especially love the book’s theory about the moon. Also check out THE COOKSEY-NISENBAUM MURDERS by Terry Cooksey, which is a sight to behold.

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Allegro. The author asserts that early people used psychedelic mushrooms for religious experiences and started a cult , and due to religious persecution they had to hide their cult rituals so they started Christianity as a front. But over time their front became the actual religion while the mushroom cult part was forgotten. While his assertions and connections are interesting and fun, his sources are basically “trust me bro”.

Moby Dick is a pretty fantastic one. As someone who’s studied biology his understanding of whales (of which he was very proud) is so off-base at times it was a riot to read.

Anything by Anatoly Fomenko.

Sovieticus by Stephen Cohen is an American foreign policy wonk’s take on the Soviet Union. Among various wrongheaded ideas is the notion that it’s dumb to think that the USSR might just collapse on its own. It was written in 1986, three years before the Berlin Wall came down.

Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton. [spoiler] He wrote it to fool people into thinking it was based on real research.