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Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.18 — 645,265 ratings — published 1996
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,835 ratings — published 2000
Feed (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.55 — 68,200 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 — 4,419 ratings — published 2010
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.10 — 992,343 ratings — published 2001
White Noise (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.86 — 127,575 ratings — published 1985
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,908 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 — 1,479 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 — 206,558 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 4.14 — 5,095 ratings — published 2021
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as consumerism)
avg rating 2.93 — 2,652 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 — 711 ratings — published 2004
Super Sad True Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 41,852 ratings — published 2010
Consumed - How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults & Swallow Citizens Whole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.38 — 864 ratings — published 2007
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,826 ratings — published 2012
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,639 ratings — published
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,085,618 ratings — published 1932
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,492 ratings — published 1999
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,326 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 — 38,774 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 13 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 364,370 ratings — published 1991
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture – How Movements from Feminism to Environmentalism Fuel Consumerism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,009 ratings — published 2004
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 — 70,343 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 — 2,326 ratings — published 2010
So Yesterday (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.58 — 11,396 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 715 ratings — published 2016
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,169 ratings — published 1970
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 — 16,157 ratings — published 2011
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,938 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
Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.80 — 362 ratings — published 2004
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,373 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,941,854 ratings — published 1925
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,553 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 — 958 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 — 4,694 ratings — published 2021
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.45 — 3,220 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 — 277 ratings — published 2010
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.48 — 166 ratings — published 2009
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.72 — 732 ratings — published 2005
The Gospel According to Larry (Gospel According to Larry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,771 ratings — published 2001
The High Price of Materialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.65 — 705 ratings — published 2002
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,763 ratings — published 2014
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.74 — 30,355 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 — 15,227 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,211 ratings — published 2020
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.67 — 377,292 ratings — published 2016
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,661 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 — 393,815 ratings — published 2010
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as consumerism)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,631 ratings — published 2008
“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”
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“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”
― Lullaby
― Lullaby
