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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 668,169 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,446 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.56 — 69,782 ratings — published 2002
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 132,835 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 — 4,472 ratings — published 2010
American Gods (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,009,149 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 — 207,103 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 — 5,530 ratings — published 2021
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,660 ratings — published 2006
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.73 — 713 ratings — published 2004
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 43,043 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 — 2,170,050 ratings — published 1932
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,892 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 — 42,255 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 386,386 ratings — published 1991
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,579 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,508 ratings — published 2008
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,647 ratings — published
The Year of Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 74,269 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 — 11,434 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 — 2,028 ratings — published 2004
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,713 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 — 16,198 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
Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,911 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 — 358 ratings — published 2004
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,341 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 — 24,751 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 — 980 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 — 6,186,636 ratings — published 1925
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,789 ratings — published 2001
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 727 ratings — published 2002
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,442 ratings — published 2006
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,586 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 — 30,742 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 — 16,222 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.49 — 10,475 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.66 — 417,561 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,773 ratings — published 2012
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
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