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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,749 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,262 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,258 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,787 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as beat)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,232 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,966 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,244 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,353 ratings — published 1958
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as beat)
avg rating 4.06 — 381,553 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,066 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,315 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,196 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,771 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,360 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,946 ratings — published 1971
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,502 ratings — published 1959
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,101 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,362 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,549 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,700 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,828 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,938 ratings — published 1950
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,153 ratings — published 1963
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,808 ratings — published 1959
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,555 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,868 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,678 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,884 ratings — published 1983
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,608 ratings — published 1981
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,339 ratings — published 1963
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,105 ratings — published 2011
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,023 ratings — published 1982
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,223 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,545 ratings — published 1975
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,733 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,968 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,588 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,729 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,333 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,374 ratings — published 1964
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,752 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,154 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,207 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,664 ratings — published 1966
“Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to stay home and mind the baby now you're gone--how can she keep her job? and she never wants to see you again and I don't blame her. If you see Ed along the road you tell him to come back to me or I'll kill him."
Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitiful dream. Then a complete silence fell over everybody; where once Dean would have talked his way out, he now fell silent himself, but standing in front of everybody, ragged and broken and idiotic, right under the lightbulbs, his bony mad face covered with sweat and throbbing veins, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," as though tremendous revelations were pouring into him all the time now, and I am convinced they were, and the others suspected as much and were frightened. He was BEAT--the root, the soul of Beatific.”
― On the Road
Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitiful dream. Then a complete silence fell over everybody; where once Dean would have talked his way out, he now fell silent himself, but standing in front of everybody, ragged and broken and idiotic, right under the lightbulbs, his bony mad face covered with sweat and throbbing veins, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," as though tremendous revelations were pouring into him all the time now, and I am convinced they were, and the others suspected as much and were frightened. He was BEAT--the root, the soul of Beatific.”
― On the Road
“He said he loves her more because she makes him smile. Fine! I'll give him the Glasgow smile. Beat that, bitch!”
― Better to be able to love than to be loveable
― Better to be able to love than to be loveable
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