I don't know about burned, but if they go out of print and disappear from our collective memory I think we'd be all the better for it:

Anything Ayn Rand wrote. Her books are the perfect spawning point for selfish shitheads looking for excuses that justify them fucking other people over, and really don't have any merit. She's a shit writer, her metaphors are ham-fisted, oppositional ideas are always presented as the weakest straw-man version of such, and her "heroes" almost invariably wind up as misogynistic 1-dimensional fuck-ups painted as the peak of masculinity. I don't think we'd lose anything important, frankly given their history I think we'd be better off for it.

The only thing influenced by her that's worth anything is BioShock lol.