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
2084 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1996 American English
2085 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
2161 The Uses of Literacy Richard Hoggart 1957 British English
2183 No Logo Naomi Klein 1999 Canadian English
2367 The Arcades Project Walter Benjamin 1982 German German
2444 The Space Merchants Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth 1952 American English
2518 The American Way of Death Jessica Mitford 1963 American English
2618 The Mezzanine Nicholson Baker 1988 American English
2679 Generation X Douglas Coupland 1991 Canadian English
2735 Severance Ling Ma 2018 American English
2845 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
2961 Au Bonheur Des Dames Émile Zola 1883 French French
3102 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3138 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
3293 Looking Backward, 2000 1887 Edward Bellamy 1888 American English
3444 The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby Tom Wolfe 1965 American English
3638 The Papalagi Erich Scheurmann 1920 German German
3834 The Obsolescence Of Man Günther Anders 1956 German German
4750 The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan 2006 American English
5360 To Have Or To Be? The Nature Of The Psyche Erich Fromm 1976 German English
5572 Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser 2001 American English
6263 Thank You For Not Reading Dubravka Ugrešić 2001 Croatian Croatian
6337 China Pop Jianying Zha 1995 Unknown English
6736 My Misspent Youth Meghan Daum 2001 American English
6806 America Jean Baudrillard 1986 French French
7215 Europe After The Rain Alan Burns 1965 British English
7615 Don't Get Too Comfortable David Rakoff 2005 Canadian English
8441 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8566 The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism Daniel Bell 1976 American English
8697 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8809 Feed M. T. Anderson 2002 American English
8815 China In Ten Words Yu Hua 2011 Chinese Chinese
8968 The Society Of The Spectacle Guy Debord 1967 French French
10448 Calypso David Sedaris 2018 American English
10990 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11564 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
11648 Money To Burn Asta Olivia Nordenhof 2020 Danish Danish
11660 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
12258 Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita 1990 American English
12246 Cinderella Ate My Daughter Peggy Orenstein 2011 American English
12410 Daller Gut Dream Department Store Miye Lee Unknown Unknown
13759 This Book Will Save Your Life A. M. Homes 2006 American English
14093 The Road To Wellville T. Coraghessan Boyle 1993 American English
14519 The Status Seekers Vance Packard 1959 American English
14679 The Oranging of America Max Apple 1976 American English
14983 Going Native Stephen Wright 1994 American English
14983 The Culture Of Narcissism Christopher Lasch 1979 American English
15745 Brave New World Including Brave New World Revisited Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
15774 Marcovaldo Italo Calvino 1963 Italian Italian
17117 Ring Around The Sun Clifford D. Simak 1952 American English
17117 Dawn Of The Dead George Romero 1978 American Unknown
17117 Wall And Piece Banksy 2005 British English
17117 Design John Heskett 2005 British English
17117 Doppler Erlend Loe 2004 Norwegian Norwegian
17117 Worn Sofi Thanhauser 2022 Unknown English
17117 Wasteland Oliver Franklin‑Wallis 2023 Unknown English
17117 Look At The Lights, My Love Annie Ernaux 2023 French French
17117 The Kingdom Of Prep Maggie Bullock 2023 Unknown English
17117 Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend M.J. Wassmer Unknown Unknown
17117 The Portable Veblen Elizabeth Mckenzie 2016 American English
17117 The People Trap Robert Sheckley 1968 American English
17117 Against The Machine Paul Kingsnorth British English
17117 Stand Firm Svend Brinkmann Danish Danish
17117 The Economics Of Innocent Fraud john kenneth galbraith 2004 American English
17117 The New Climate War Michael Mann 2021 American English