165 books
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Pop Culture Books
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,004 ratings — published 2003
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,320,491 ratings — published 2011
The Nineties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,745 ratings — published 2022
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.83 — 586,400 ratings — published 2023
Eating the Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.77 — 16,347 ratings — published 2009
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 110 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,063,555 ratings — published 2011
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,535 ratings — published 2006
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,633 ratings — published 2005
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.85 — 560,241 ratings — published 2014
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,542,664 ratings — published 2022
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.08 — 20,422 ratings — published 2002
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by (shelved 92 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 515,626 ratings — published 2011
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 76,214 ratings — published 2014
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,166 ratings — published 2025
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,656 ratings — published 2024
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)
by (shelved 78 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,483 ratings — published 2013
The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,924 ratings — published 2014
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.69 — 92,084 ratings — published 2016
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,705 ratings — published 2019
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,818 ratings — published 2012
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,983 ratings — published 2020
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,960 ratings — published 2016
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.92 — 119,990 ratings — published 2014
Hamilton: The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.45 — 55,194 ratings — published 2015
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.80 — 122,260 ratings — published 2021
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,931 ratings — published 2023
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,133 ratings — published 2020
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,193 ratings — published 2017
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,912 ratings — published 2011
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 56 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 168,191 ratings — published 2016
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,897,299 ratings — published 2019
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,176 ratings — published 2018
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,124 ratings — published 2001
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,653 ratings — published 2024
One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.70 — 21,048 ratings — published 2024
Open Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.09 — 115,376 ratings — published 2020
I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.73 — 14,836 ratings — published 2018
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,579 ratings — published 2015
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.28 — 35,236 ratings — published 2013
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.94 — 411,441 ratings — published 2022
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,749 ratings — published 2010
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.87 — 42,275 ratings — published 2007
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.82 — 94,837 ratings — published 2008
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,203 ratings — published 1996
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.21 — 365,735 ratings — published 2010
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.43 — 170,651 ratings — published 2021
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.66 — 18,846 ratings — published 2016
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,680 ratings — published 2021
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,028 ratings — published 2019
Inventory: 16 Films Featuring Manic Pixie Dream Girls, 10 Great Songs Nearly Ruined by Saxophone, and 100 More Obsessively Specific Pop-Culture Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as pop-culture)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,085 ratings — published 2009
“Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.”
― You Are Not a Gadget
― You Are Not a Gadget
“Pop culture is just a rubik's cube of shit stacked on shit. And it's always turning and you can't figure it out. Ever. Unless you're a tiny Asian boy who can do it SO quickly! Where did this metaphore go? In Kim Kardashian's butt!”
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