The Greatest Books of All Time on Consumerism

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
333 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996 American English
364 White Noise Don DeLillo 1985 American English
411 Underworld Don DeLillo 1997 American English
506 The Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith 1958 American English
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
597 The Years Annie Ernaux 2008 French French
659 Mythologies Roland Barthes 1957 French French
750 Money Martin Amis 1984 British English
904 Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 American English
1655 The Beauty Myth Naomi Wolf 1990 American English
1659 The Americans Robert Frank 1959 American English
1907 Consider The Lobster David Foster Wallace 2005 American English
2085 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
2086 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
2162 The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart 1957 British English
2184 No Logo Naomi Klein 1999 Canadian English
2369 The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin 1982 German German
2446 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
2520 The American Way of Death Jessica Mitford 1963 American English
2619 The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker 1988 American English
2680 Generation X Douglas Coupland 1991 Canadian English
2736 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
2848 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
2963 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
3294 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3444 The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby Tom Wolfe 1965 American English
3637 The Papalagi Erich Scheurmann 1920 German German
3832 The Obsolescence Of Man Günther Anders 1956 German German
4751 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
5362 To Have Or To Be? The Nature Of The Psyche Erich Fromm 1976 German English
5574 Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 2001 American English
6266 Thank You For Not Reading Dubravka Ugrešić 2001 Croatian Croatian
6340 China Pop Jianying Zha 1995 Unknown English
6737 My Misspent Youth Meghan Daum 2001 American English
6806 America Jean Baudrillard 1986 French French
7216 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7616 Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff 2005 Canadian English
8445 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8570 The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism Daniel Bell 1976 American English
8701 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8814 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8820 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8972 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
10453 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10996 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11565 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
11650 Money To Burn Asta Olivia Nordenhof 2020 Danish Danish
11662 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
12259 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12247 Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein 2011 American English
12412 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
13760 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
14093 The Road To Wellville T. Coraghessan Boyle 1993 American English
14520 The Status Seekers Vance Packard 1959 American English
14680 The Oranging of America Max Apple 1976 American English
14985 Going Native Stephen Wright 1994 American English
14985 The Culture Of Narcissism Christopher Lasch 1979 American English
15753 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15791 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
17159 Ring Around The Sun Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
17159 Dawn Of The Dead George Romero 1978 American Unknown
17159 Wall And Piece Banksy 2005 British English
17159 Design John Heskett 2005 British English
17159 Doppler Erlend Loe 2004 Norwegian Norwegian
17159 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17159 Wasteland Oliver Franklin‑Wallis 2023 Unknown English
17159 Look At The Lights, My Love Annie Ernaux 2023 French French
17159 The Kingdom Of Prep Maggie Bullock 2023 Unknown English
17159 Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend M.J. Wassmer Unknown Unknown
17159 The Portable Veblen Elizabeth Mckenzie 2016 American English
17159 The People Trap Robert Sheckley 1968 American English
17159 Against The Machine Paul Kingsnorth British English
17159 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
17159 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17159 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English