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Beat Lit Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,743 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 104,134 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,118 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,526 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,003 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,154 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,629 ratings — published 1945
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,411 ratings — published 1968
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,394 ratings — published 1959
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,329 ratings — published 1958
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,481 ratings — published 1958
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,179 ratings — published 2011
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,758 ratings — published 1985
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,294 ratings — published 1960
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,575 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,089 ratings — published 1957
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,693 ratings — published 1961
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,892 ratings — published 1952
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,928 ratings — published 1992
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,889 ratings — published 1959
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,381 ratings — published 1960
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 390,037 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 797,838 ratings — published 1962
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,773 ratings — published 1969
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,471 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,815 ratings — published 1971
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,935 ratings — published 1983
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,544 ratings — published 1964
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,112 ratings — published 1984
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.24 — 838 ratings — published 2002
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,733 ratings — published 1998
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,007 ratings — published 1950
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 123,818 ratings — published 1982
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 770 ratings — published 1947
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,172 ratings — published 1963
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,598 ratings — published 1959
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 89,065 ratings — published 1978
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,836 ratings — published 1992
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,334 ratings — published 1967
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,719 ratings — published 1974
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,236 ratings — published 2004
Heaven & Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 375 ratings — published 1977
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,271 ratings — published 1963
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,985 ratings — published 1971
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,091 ratings — published 1960
How I Became Hettie Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 652 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,403 ratings — published 1963
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,781 ratings — published 2006
