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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 640,716 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,734 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.55 — 67,923 ratings — published 2002
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 — 4,411 ratings — published 2010
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 988,716 ratings — published 2001
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 126,634 ratings — published 1985
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,902 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 — 206,496 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 — 1,474 ratings — published 1992
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,653 ratings — published 2006
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,000 ratings — published 2021
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 41,757 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 — 708 ratings — published 2004
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 860 ratings — published 2007
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,815 ratings — published 2012
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,475 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,269 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 — 38,023 ratings — published 1985
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,634 ratings — published
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,065,818 ratings — published 1932
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,163 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 3.46 — 68,512 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 — 2,323 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,396 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 — 1,997 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 — 16,161 ratings — published 2011
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,799 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 — 1,326 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 — 710 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 4.12 — 2,146 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 — 4,365 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,874,844 ratings — published 1925
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,332 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 — 953 ratings — published 2003
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,656 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,153 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 — 276 ratings — published 2010
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 729 ratings — published 2005
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,767 ratings — published 2001
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.66 — 700 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,660 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 — 30,281 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 — 15,031 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.67 — 369,634 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,624 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 — 391,403 ratings — published 2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,591 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 3.70 — 741 ratings — published 2011
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could end famine directly, without the need for any kind of political solution or systemic reorganization. It is necessary to act straight away, we were told; politics has to be suspended in the name of ethical immediacy. Bono’s Product Red brand wanted to dispense even with the philanthropic intermediary. ‘Philanthropy is like hippy music, holding hands’, Bono proclaimed. ‘Red is more like punk rock, hip hop, this should feel like hard commerce’. The point was not to offer an alternative to capitalism - on the contrary, Product Red’s ‘punk rock’ or ‘hip hop’ character consisted in its ‘realistic’ acceptance that capitalism is the only game in town. No, the aim was only to ensure that some of the proceeds of particular transactions went to good causes. The fantasy being that western consumerism, far from being intrinsically implicated in systemic global inequalities, could itself solve them. All we have to do is buy the right products.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.”
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
― To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
