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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 654,366 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,069 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.55 — 68,808 ratings — published 2002
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 129,626 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 — 4,445 ratings — published 2010
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 998,130 ratings — published 2001
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,919 ratings — published 2001
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,803 ratings — published 2001
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,481 ratings — published 1992
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 — 5,271 ratings — published 2021
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,659 ratings — published 2006
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 42,012 ratings — published 2010
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 714 ratings — published 2004
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,117,494 ratings — published 1932
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 866 ratings — published 2007
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,853 ratings — published 2012
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,218 ratings — published 1985
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,530 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,416 ratings — published 2008
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,643 ratings — published
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 372,755 ratings — published 1991
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 — 72,413 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 — 2,334 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,413 ratings — published 2004
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture – How Movements from Feminism to Environmentalism Fuel Consumerism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,018 ratings — published 2004
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 — 16,182 ratings — published 2011
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,260 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
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 723 ratings — published 2016
Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 362 ratings — published 2004
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,236 ratings — published 1970
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,781 ratings — published 2021
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,385 ratings — published 2011
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.87 — 969 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,308 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
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 736 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,035,737 ratings — published 1925
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,779 ratings — published 2001
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,997 ratings — published 1967
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 713 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,972 ratings — published 2014
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.48 — 166 ratings — published 2009
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,531 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 — 15,613 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.67 — 393,180 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,720 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 — 396,878 ratings — published 2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,708 ratings — published 2008
Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.69 — 763 ratings — published 2011
“You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.”
― The Colossus of New York
― The Colossus of New York
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
― Lullaby
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
― Lullaby
