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On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Big Sur
Howl and Other Poems
Junky
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Desolation Angels
The Subterraneans
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Howl
Queer
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Ham on Rye
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Janet Does Everything by Van Evan FullerPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
106 books — 15 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
236 books — 182 voters


[W]e ourselves are the skeletons who scare us, faux grownups who could never care for us, left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

All brace to taste life’s bitter curse— A second birth, but in reverse— A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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Novel, Coffee, Hipsters, Doo-wop, Rockabilly, Beatniks, Jazz, Classical or Stories with a Vintage feel The title says it all lol but really, don't you sometimes like to escape from our harsh reality …more
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