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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 450,689 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,049 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,614 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,033 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,868 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,132 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,205 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,922 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,807 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,338 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,359 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,739 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,307 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,866 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,035 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,183 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,540 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,086 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,266 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,932 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,494 ratings — published 1959
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,667 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 — 2,550 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 — 2,945 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,326 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,965 ratings — published 1967
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,798 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,372 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,642 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 4.08 — 2,883 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 — 380,672 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,749 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.22 — 835 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,093 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,288 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,813 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,230 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,157 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,682 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 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,733 ratings — published 1962
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.96 — 326 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,932 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,573 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,235 ratings — published 1956
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,144 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,293 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,168 ratings — published 1960
“tick... tock... tick... tock…
this mocking by clocks
never stops,
until it does—
and then we rot.”
― Lorca's Grave
this mocking by clocks
never stops,
until it does—
and then we rot.”
― Lorca's Grave
“And, so, the poet who sees deepest
Is rooted out quickest—before he can
Infect the masses with his utopian visions,
Slay their despair, ease their burdens,
Restore their hopes, unleash their dreams.”
― Lorca's Grave
Is rooted out quickest—before he can
Infect the masses with his utopian visions,
Slay their despair, ease their burdens,
Restore their hopes, unleash their dreams.”
― Lorca's Grave
