The Greatest Books of All Time on Materialism

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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
20 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1857 French French
255 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 American English
332 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser 1900 American English
410 The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham 1944 British English
570 American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 American English
687 Rabbit Is Rich John Updike 1981 American English
720 The Professor's House Willa Cather 1925 American English
1169 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 1925 American English
2846 Things Georges Perec 1965 French French
3638 The Papalagi Erich Scheurmann 1920 German German
5362 To Have Or To Be? The Nature Of The Psyche Erich Fromm 1976 German English
8443 Generation Golf Florian Illies 2000 German German
8568 The Joyless Economy Tibor Scitovsky 1976 American English
10404 For Marx Louis Althusser 1965 French French
13382 A Perfect Day For Bananafish J. D. Salinger 1948 American English
9859 Democratic Vistas And Other Papers Walt Whitman 1871 American English
13619 Civilization Georges Duhamel 1918 French French
13767 The Enchantments Of Mammon Eugene McCarraher 2019 American English
14082 The Simple Life Charles Wagner 1895 French French
12455 The Status Seekers Vance Packard 1959 American English
15897 Grundrisse Karl Marx 1857 German German
15897 The Air Conditioned Nightmare Henry Miller 1945 American English
17113 Real Materialism And Other Essays Galen Strawson 2008 British English
16837 The Crisis Of The Modern World (Guenon, Rene. Works.) René Guénon 1927 French French
17113 Leave Me Alone Murong Xuecun 2002 Chinese Chinese
17113 Mind And Cosmos Thomas Nagel 2012 American English
17113 Soul Boom Rainn Wilson 2023 American English
17113 The Blue Umbrella Ruskin Bond 1980 Indian English