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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 477 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,437 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,831 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,803 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,426 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as beat)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,030 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,880 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,161 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,315 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 — 379,483 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,000 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,293 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,161 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,691 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,357 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,944 ratings — published 1971
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,482 ratings — published 1959
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,075 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,141 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,530 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,841 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,656 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,912 ratings — published 1992
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,132 ratings — published 1963
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,931 ratings — published 1950
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,545 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,863 ratings — published 1952
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,792 ratings — published 1959
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,649 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,879 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,316 ratings — published 1963
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 119,180 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 — 1,222 ratings — published 1996
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,087 ratings — published 2011
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,146 ratings — published 1975
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,576 ratings — published 1981
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,727 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,953 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,556 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,712 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,303 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,366 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 — 1,459 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,738 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,158 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,100 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,633 ratings — published 1966
“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”
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