53 books
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29 voters
Consumerism Books
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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 650,471 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,964 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.55 — 68,549 ratings — published 2002
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 128,708 ratings — published 1985
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,433 ratings — published 2010
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 995,502 ratings — published 2001
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,915 ratings — published 2001
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,477 ratings — published 1992
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,688 ratings — published 2001
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,211 ratings — published 2021
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,656 ratings — published 2006
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 712 ratings — published 2004
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 41,949 ratings — published 2010
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 865 ratings — published 2007
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,843 ratings — published 2012
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,641 ratings — published
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,103,647 ratings — published 1932
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,516 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,381 ratings — published 2008
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,592 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 369,286 ratings — published 1991
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture – How Movements from Feminism to Environmentalism Fuel Consumerism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,012 ratings — published 2004
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 71,576 ratings — published 2018
The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and Regained My Soul – An Inspiring Guide to Simple and Meaningful Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.90 — 2,333 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,397 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 722 ratings — published 2016
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,206 ratings — published 1970
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,169 ratings — published 2011
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,110 ratings — published 2004
A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.06 — 1,332 ratings — published 2007
Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 362 ratings — published 2004
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,383 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,994,975 ratings — published 1925
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,803 ratings — published 1967
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.87 — 965 ratings — published 2003
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,751 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.46 — 3,272 ratings — published 2006
Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don't Have in Search of Happiness We Can't Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 278 ratings — published 2010
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.48 — 166 ratings — published 2009
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 734 ratings — published 2005
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,780 ratings — published 2001
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 710 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,883 ratings — published 2014
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,453 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,447 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.49 — 9,440 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.67 — 386,027 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,696 ratings — published 2012
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 395,552 ratings — published 2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,675 ratings — published 2008
“The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
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