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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,901 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,643 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,682 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,119 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,442 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,043 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,329 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,400 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 — 383,462 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,127 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,345 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,239 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,845 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,366 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,519 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,951 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,135 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,602 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,579 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,516 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,886 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,921 ratings — published 1992
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,955 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,834 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,170 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,556 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,871 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,686 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,893 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,358 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,628 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,114 ratings — published 2011
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,843 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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,918 ratings — published 1975
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,745 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,974 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,626 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,737 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,359 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,394 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 — 1,460 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,768 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,164 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,319 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,689 ratings — published 1966
“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
“The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
