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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 456,023 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,082 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,195 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,466 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,652 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,132 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,421 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,445 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 — 385,480 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,174 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,367 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,265 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,918 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,379 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,542 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,961 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,168 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,975 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,591 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,299 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,762 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,926 ratings — published 1992
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,969 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,852 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,238 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 3.80 — 1,876 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,710 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,906 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,376 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,653 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,130 ratings — published 2011
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,611 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 — 77,311 ratings — published 1975
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,755 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,984 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,646 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,749 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,394 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,402 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 — 2,781 ratings — published 1971
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,712 ratings — published 1966
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,169 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,389 ratings — published 1969
“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
“Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!
Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!
Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals.
Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF!
Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.”
― Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!
Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals.
Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF!
Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.”
― Fruits Basket, Vol. 1
