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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,564 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,245 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.55 — 69,291 ratings — published 2002
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 131,169 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 — 4,457 ratings — published 2010
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,907 ratings — published 2001
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,929 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 — 206,934 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 — 1,489 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 — 5,375 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
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 42,517 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 — 713 ratings — published 2004
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,142,909 ratings — published 1932
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 871 ratings — published 2007
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,875 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 — 41,199 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 379,423 ratings — published 1991
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,545 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,453 ratings — published 2008
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,644 ratings — published
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 — 73,449 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 — 2,340 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,421 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 — 2,024 ratings — published 2004
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,465 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 — 16,185 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 — 1,333 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 3.82 — 727 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 — 2,275 ratings — published 1970
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,853 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 — 4,393 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 — 975 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 — 739 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,112,725 ratings — published 1925
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,783 ratings — published 2001
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,353 ratings — published 1967
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 720 ratings — published 2002
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.46 — 3,365 ratings — published 2006
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,118 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 — 30,609 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 — 15,919 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,900 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.66 — 404,662 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,744 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 — 399,174 ratings — published 2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,762 ratings — published 2008
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“Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
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“The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.”
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