Beat Poets Books

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Howl and Other Poems Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,348 ratings — published 1956
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A Coney Island of the Mind A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,289 ratings — published 1958
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Queer Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,475 ratings — published 1985
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,725 ratings — published 1959
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With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.03 — 468 ratings — published 1979
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Pictures of the Gone World Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,543 ratings — published
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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.16 — 881 ratings — published 1995
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Scattered Poems Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,732 ratings — published 1971
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Junky Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,550 ratings — published 1953
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The Subterraneans The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,864 ratings — published 1958
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Desolation Angels Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,304 ratings — published 1958
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Memoirs of a Beatnik Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,643 ratings — published 1969
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The Dharma Bums The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,691 ratings — published 1958
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On the Road On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,900 ratings — published 1957
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Mexico City Blues Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,791 ratings — published 1959
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Turtle Island Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,572 ratings — published 1974
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1) The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,068 ratings — published 1961
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Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,543 ratings — published 1990
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Junky / Queer / Naked Lunch Junky / Queer / Naked Lunch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.07 — 286 ratings — published 1995
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The Letters, Vol. 1: 1945-1959 The Letters, Vol. 1: 1945-1959 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.18 — 527 ratings — published 1993
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Last Words: The Final Journals Last Words: The Final Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 646 ratings — published 2000
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Howl Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,226 ratings — published 1956
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Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.15 — 523 ratings — published 1969
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San Francisco Poems (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series) San Francisco Poems (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.05 — 341 ratings — published 1998
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Collected Poems, 1947-1980 Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,036 ratings — published 1984
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Kaddish and Other Poems Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,529 ratings — published 1961
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Planet News Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.97 — 546 ratings — published 1968
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,144 ratings — published 1945
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Revolutionary Letters Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.31 — 937 ratings — published 1971
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Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.26 — 392 ratings — published 1965
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Wild Dreams of a New Beginning Wild Dreams of a New Beginning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.05 — 267 ratings — published 1988
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A Far Rockaway of the Heart A Far Rockaway of the Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.10 — 530 ratings — published 1997
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Dinners and Nightmares Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.15 — 303 ratings — published 1961
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Poetry as Insurgent Art Poetry as Insurgent Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,070 ratings — published 2007
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The Adding Machine: Selected Essays The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.08 — 952 ratings — published 1985
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Exterminator! Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,063 ratings — published 1973
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The Yage Letters The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,131 ratings — published 1963
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,150 ratings — published 1969
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Maggie Cassidy Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,478 ratings — published 1959
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Dr. Sax Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,632 ratings — published 1959
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Visions of Cody Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,356 ratings — published 1959
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Reality Sandwiches Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,157 ratings — published 1963
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The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,288 ratings — published 1972
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Women Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,477 ratings — published 1978
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The Green Piano The Green Piano (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2004
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Mad Dogs of Trieste: New and Selected Poems Mad Dogs of Trieste: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2000
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Hand on the Doorknob Hand on the Doorknob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2000
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When I Was a Poet When I Was a Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.75 — 89 ratings — published 2011
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Little Boy Little Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.66 — 516 ratings — published 2019
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Tales of Ordinary Madness Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,825 ratings — published 1983
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Jack Kerouac

“Throughout my life, I have been drawn to outsiders. The ultimate outsiders were the Beat Poets. Read the Beat Poets' work aloud. Their modern equivalent would be rappers. ”
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