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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,741 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,621 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,093 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,666 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,472 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,431 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,327 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,038 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,329 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,397 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,845 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,366 ratings — published 1959
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,345 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 43 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,871 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,125 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,237 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,579 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,132 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,584 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,955 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,519 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,951 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,686 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 — 2,557 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,921 ratings — published 1992
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,358 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,975 ratings — published 1967
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,831 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,676 ratings — published 1962
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,893 ratings — published 1983
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,660 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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
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 — 383,343 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,765 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.22 — 840 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,113 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,475 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,817 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,246 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,163 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,691 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 — 1,459 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,746 ratings — published 1962
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.97 — 326 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,940 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,626 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,250 ratings — published 1956
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,169 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 — 1,295 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,171 ratings — published 1960
“[T]he fine line between life and death, we finally find, is no line at all.”
― Lorca's Grave
― Lorca's Grave
“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
