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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 667,344 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,429 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.56 — 69,727 ratings — published 2002
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,658 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 — 4,473 ratings — published 2010
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,008,230 ratings — published 2001
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,936 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 — 1,496 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 — 207,098 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 — 5,519 ratings — published 2021
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,658 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 — 714 ratings — published 2004
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 43,007 ratings — published 2010
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 871 ratings — published 2007
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,167,286 ratings — published 1932
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,891 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 — 42,146 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 385,728 ratings — published 1991
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,575 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,503 ratings — published 2008
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,648 ratings — published
The Year of Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 74,174 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 2.89 — 2,342 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,433 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 3.84 — 2,027 ratings — published 2004
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,698 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 — 16,197 ratings — published 2011
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 — 1,334 ratings — published 2007
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,907 ratings — published 2021
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 3.82 — 735 ratings — published 2016
Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 359 ratings — published 2004
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,336 ratings — published 1970
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,397 ratings — published 2011
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,701 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 — 979 ratings — published 2003
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 — 742 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,179,100 ratings — published 1925
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,790 ratings — published 2001
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 728 ratings — published 2002
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.46 — 3,430 ratings — published 2006
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,560 ratings — published 2014
Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.06 — 840 ratings — published 2008
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 — 30,731 ratings — published 1991
Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,083 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,173 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,435 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.66 — 416,235 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,769 ratings — published 2012
“We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
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“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
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