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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,395 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,489 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,484 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,860 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,863 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,202 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,511 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,496 ratings — published 1958
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as beat)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,335 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,226 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,416 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,302 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,996 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,381 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,558 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,966 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,198 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,087 ratings — published 1968
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,176 ratings — published 1971
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,614 ratings — published 1961
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,638 ratings — published 1962
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,980 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,863 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,243 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,560 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,884 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,724 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,925 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,382 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,669 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,147 ratings — published 2011
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 — 77,672 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 122,503 ratings — published 1982
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,760 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,991 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,697 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,758 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,417 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,413 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 — 1,467 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,796 ratings — published 1971
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,752 ratings — published 1966
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,173 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,510 ratings — published 1969
“If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence
Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”
―
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence
Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”
―
“And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.”
― Fighting Ruben Wolfe
― Fighting Ruben Wolfe
