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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,114 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,800 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,123 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,796 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,690 ratings — published 1953
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,268 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,538 ratings — published 1985
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,020 ratings — published 1962
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,541 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,561 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,438 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,881 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,583 ratings — published 1959
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,336 ratings — published 1960
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,997 ratings — published 1950
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,387 ratings — published 1963
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,255 ratings — published 1968
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,047 ratings — published 1957
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,219 ratings — published 1961
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,263 ratings — published 1960
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,745 ratings — published 1969
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,262 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,928 ratings — published 1992
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 7 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,889 ratings — published 1952
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,769 ratings — published 1983
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,643 ratings — published 1961
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,669 ratings — published 1974
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,671 ratings — published 1962
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,435 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,387 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,706 ratings — published 1959
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,472 ratings — published 1955
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,691 ratings — published 1981
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,802 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,830 ratings — published 1992
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,979 ratings — published 1971
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,085 ratings — published 1960
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,695 ratings — published 1973
The Cat Inside (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,843 ratings — published 1986
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,289 ratings — published 1999
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 888 ratings — published 1995
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,766 ratings — published 1962
The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,231 ratings — published 1987
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,688 ratings — published 1971
Gary Snyder: Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.49 — 37 ratings — published
Desolation Peak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.74 — 121 ratings — published
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,767 ratings — published 1966
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,162 ratings — published 2011
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.05 — 446 ratings — published 1989
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-literature)
avg rating 4.25 — 580 ratings — published 2001