Anime and Manga
- Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood: In Episode 4 Janome quotes a passage from the "The Waste Land".
Fanworks
- Out of the Dead Land takes its overall title and chapter titles from "The Waste Land", among other references to it.
Literature
- Provides the title for two connected novels by Iain M. Banks:Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and Look to Windward
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. - "The Lady of Situations" by Stephen Dedman takes its title from Madame Sosostris' tarot reading.
- The Waste Lands by Stephen King takes its title from "The Waste Land" and uses a quotation from it as the epigraph.
- Small World by David Lodge: Partipants at the Zürich conference dress up as characters from "The Waste Land" to re-enact the poem in the street.
- "Waste Paper: A Poem of Profound Insignificance" by H. P. Lovecraft.
- Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon: The code words to activate the "Talons", a doomsday weapon, are quotes from "The Waste Land".
- Last Call by Tim Powers contains multiple references to "The Waste Land".
Live-Action TV
- The X-Files, "Milagro": The index cards Padgett pins to his wall are covered with plot points from "The Waste Land".
Video Games
- Curses: Examining the book of Twenties poetry transports you to Unreal City, where you can find Madame Sosostris, the famous clairvoyante; graffiti on a wall reading "Shantih Shantih Shantih"; and a river-boat called the Phlebas, helmed by a hollow man who will repeatedly say, "Hurry up please it's time!"
- Fallen London, several of the Recurring Dreams/Strange Dreams are named after the sections of "The Waste Land".
- The Secret World: Morninglight lore deliberately misquotes "The Waste Land" with the line "I had not thought self-help had undone so many."
- At the start of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Hikawa notes that a well-known poet once said April is the cruelest month, and gives his own answer on why that is- "Because it is then one awakens from a long sleep and faces the barren world."
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception: As Nate wanders through the desert, the voice-over recites an unattributed excerpt from "The Waste Land".
Webcomics
- Homestuck at one point quotes the opening lines, misattributing them to "American sports legend, Charles Barkley".
