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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 475 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 446,235 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,317 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,209 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,876 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as beat)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,768 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,777 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,058 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,262 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 — 376,851 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,923 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,259 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,110 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,607 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,349 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,939 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,043 ratings — published 1961
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,466 ratings — published 1959
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,876 ratings — published 1968
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,621 ratings — published 1971
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,504 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 777,460 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,115 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,542 ratings — published 1990
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,914 ratings — published 1950
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,865 ratings — published 1952
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,779 ratings — published 1959
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,623 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,862 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,297 ratings — published 1963
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
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,070 ratings — published 2011
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,628 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,092 ratings — published 1982
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,556 ratings — published 1981
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,722 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,946 ratings — published 1967
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,705 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,261 ratings — published 1971
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,518 ratings — published 1956
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,352 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 — 1,452 ratings — published 1955
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,152 ratings — published 1963
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,726 ratings — published 1971
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,955 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beat)
avg rating 3.28 — 2,591 ratings — published 1966
“Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.”
― Conqueror
― Conqueror
“The poet floats above—
Stateless, ageless, timeless, guileless—
A creator of beauty,
An excavator of truth,
A healer of fear,
A harbinger of love.”
― Lorca's Grave
Stateless, ageless, timeless, guileless—
A creator of beauty,
An excavator of truth,
A healer of fear,
A harbinger of love.”
― Lorca's Grave
