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Beat Poetry Books
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Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,111 ratings — published 1956
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,527 ratings — published 1985
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,782 ratings — published 1959
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,041 ratings — published 1957
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,676 ratings — published 1953
The Happy Birthday of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 747 ratings — published 1960
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.04 — 445 ratings — published 1989
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 381,469 ratings — published 2010
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,437 ratings — published 1958
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,787 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,881 ratings — published 1959
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,668 ratings — published 1974
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,900 ratings — published 1973
Plutonian Ode and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.76 — 268 ratings — published 1981
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,853 ratings — published 1977
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,365 ratings — published 1992
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,472 ratings — published 1955
Would you still love me if I was a worm? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 72 ratings — published
Crush (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,254 ratings — published 2005
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 377 ratings — published
Poems Momma Never Read Me (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,310 ratings — published 1956
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,111 ratings — published 1973
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,781 ratings — published 1956
Yesterday I Had the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 274 ratings — published 2003
Beat Poets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.97 — 633 ratings — published 2002
And Yet: Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,653 ratings — published 2022
On Sun Swallowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,619 ratings — published 2022
Hera Lindsay Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,094 ratings — published 2016
Sweetdark (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,999 ratings — published 2020
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.98 — 63,006 ratings — published 2004
Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 1958
Hail Thee Who Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1968
Kerhonkson Journal: 1966 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 1971
Hymns to St. Geryon and Dark Brown (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1979
The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.41 — 63 ratings — published 2005
Auguries of Innocence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,633 ratings — published 2005
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,175 ratings — published 1963
Myths & Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.12 — 313 ratings — published 1960
Heaven & Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.81 — 374 ratings — published 1977
Sad Dust Glories Poems During Work Summer in Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 1975
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,576 ratings — published
San Francisco Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.74 — 418 ratings — published 1991
Long Live Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 158 ratings — published 1962
Lunch Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,873 ratings — published 1964
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,012 ratings — published 1962
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,641 ratings — published 1961
The Tapestry and the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published
Airplane Dreams: Compositions From Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1968
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― Book of Sketches
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― Book of Sketches
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― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
― Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
