I don’t finish most books which I don’t think are worth reading or don’t even get properly started on them, so there are not that many anti-recommendations. Hopefully that is true for most readers?
Weakest on this list is 21st Lessons for the 21st Century from a learning perspective and I probably also hit diminishing returns on reading both the Tim Harford books and How we got to now, both of which are on the history of objects and inventions. (I am also just realising that I forgot to include Exactly, a book on the history of precision engineering which I abandoned halfway through and is on a similar theme.)
For a lot of other books on this list I would only recommend reading them if that sort of book sounds like your cup of tea.
Did you read any books you would not recommend? Because that would be a useful thing to hear too.
(Also, this list makes me feel bad about my lack of book reading...)
I don’t finish most books which I don’t think are worth reading or don’t even get properly started on them, so there are not that many anti-recommendations. Hopefully that is true for most readers?
Weakest on this list is 21st Lessons for the 21st Century from a learning perspective and I probably also hit diminishing returns on reading both the Tim Harford books and How we got to now, both of which are on the history of objects and inventions. (I am also just realising that I forgot to include Exactly, a book on the history of precision engineering which I abandoned halfway through and is on a similar theme.)
For a lot of other books on this list I would only recommend reading them if that sort of book sounds like your cup of tea.