Beat Lit Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 454,134 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,730 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,686 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,162 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,542 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,467 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,336 ratings — published 1945
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,646 ratings — published 1968
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,367 ratings — published 1959
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,049 ratings — published 1958
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,348 ratings — published 1958
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,117 ratings — published 2011
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,378 ratings — published 1985
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,130 ratings — published 1960
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,409 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,851 ratings — published 1957
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,580 ratings — published 1961
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,872 ratings — published 1952
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,923 ratings — published 1992
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,835 ratings — published 1959
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,239 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 — 383,697 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 788,210 ratings — published 1962
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,690 ratings — published 1969
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,560 ratings — published
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,603 ratings — published 1971
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,893 ratings — published 1983
Sometimes a Great Notion (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 24,173 ratings — published 1964
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,044 ratings — published 1984
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.24 — 832 ratings — published 2002
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,958 ratings — published 1950
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,928 ratings — published 1982
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.20 — 763 ratings — published 1947
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,165 ratings — published 1963
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,770 ratings — published 1971
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,521 ratings — published 1959
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.80 — 87,570 ratings — published 1978
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,817 ratings — published 1992
Trout Fishing in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,975 ratings — published 1967
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,620 ratings — published 1974
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,665 ratings — published 1998
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,450 ratings — published 2004
Heaven & Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.82 — 369 ratings — published 1977
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,171 ratings — published 1963
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,951 ratings — published 1971
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,069 ratings — published 1960
How I Became Hettie Jones (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 646 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,362 ratings — published 1963
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,699 ratings — published 2006

