Beat


On the Road
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
The Dharma Bums
Junky
Howl and Other Poems
Big Sur
The Subterraneans
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Desolation Angels
Queer
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Tristessa
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lonesome Traveler
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Anxiety by Danny WinterWoody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast by Danny WinterNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Ipswich Bus by Robbie FranklinEchoes From a Cobbled Street by David Hayes
Words that Influence
44 books — 16 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacChronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Beatniks
176 books — 22 voters

1001 Ways to Beat the Draft by Tuli KupferbergThe Beat Generation Cookbook by Carl LarsenVampire Beat by Vincent CourtneyRockabilly Beat by Katsu SuzukiHunting the Truth by Beate Klarsfeld
"Beat"
246 books — 11 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. Burroughs
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Whole Shot by Rick SchoberDon't Hide the Madness by William S. BurroughsVisions of Cody by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Books of the Beats
10 books — 3 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacAsk the Dust by John FanteNobody Special by Jack Deadmen
The Lonesome Narrator
36 books — 15 voters

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry. ...more
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Jack Kerouac
Praise Lord, if you can’t have fun turn to religion.
Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

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