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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 462,783 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,319 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,751 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 104,392 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,202 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,244 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,670 ratings — published 1945
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,905 ratings — published 1985
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,366 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,594 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,396 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,129 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 46 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,891 ratings — published 1952
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,498 ratings — published 1958
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,317 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,405 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,700 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,269 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,484 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,015 ratings — published 1950
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,779 ratings — published 1969
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.58 — 5,609 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,991 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,407 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,010 ratings — published 1967
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,573 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,930 ratings — published 1992
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,895 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,940 ratings — published 1983
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 799,306 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,723 ratings — published 1959
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 — 390,934 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,822 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.22 — 851 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,189 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,869 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,837 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,276 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,175 ratings — published 1963
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,843 ratings — published 1956
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,700 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 — 1,476 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,777 ratings — published 1962
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,279 ratings — published 1963
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.97 — 329 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,956 ratings — published 1985
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,461 ratings — published 1971
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,300 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,179 ratings — published 1960
“I am a criminal for just existing
When I know that any crime
Is being committed anywhere—
Not crimes against law,
But real crimes against
JUSTICE, PEACE, LIFE.”
― Lorca's Grave
When I know that any crime
Is being committed anywhere—
Not crimes against law,
But real crimes against
JUSTICE, PEACE, LIFE.”
― Lorca's Grave
