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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 447,744 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,530 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,171 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,481 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,336 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,883 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,103 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,826 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,269 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,286 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,353 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,646 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,276 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,864 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,949 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,129 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,521 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,053 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,991 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,919 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,479 ratings — published 1959
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,639 ratings — published 1969
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,544 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,943 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,306 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,946 ratings — published 1967
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,783 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 779,334 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,626 ratings — published 1959
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,223 ratings — published 1996
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,866 ratings — published 1983
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,020 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,727 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.22 — 834 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,076 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,202 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,807 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,217 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,155 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,681 ratings — published 1973
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,456 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,725 ratings — published 1962
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.96 — 324 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,931 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,538 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,221 ratings — published 1956
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,126 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,288 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,162 ratings — published 1960
“Craving immortality, my mind masters fraud:
My spirit’s projected as my brain cells applaud.”
― Lorca's Grave
My spirit’s projected as my brain cells applaud.”
― Lorca's Grave
“We, too, are beings
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― Lorca's Grave
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― Lorca's Grave
