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Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,979 ratings — published 1956
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,051 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,602 ratings — published 1959
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,457 ratings — published 1953
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,591 ratings — published 1958
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,427 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,362 ratings — published 1985
With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.03 — 470 ratings — published 1979
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,572 ratings — published
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.16 — 888 ratings — published 1995
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,797 ratings — published 1971
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,233 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,511 ratings — published 1958
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,734 ratings — published 1969
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,871 ratings — published 1959
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,658 ratings — published 1974
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,204 ratings — published 1961
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,563 ratings — published 1990
Junky / Queer / Naked Lunch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.07 — 301 ratings — published 1995
The Letters, Vol. 1: 1945-1959 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.17 — 532 ratings — published 1993
Last Words: The Final Journals (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.93 — 649 ratings — published 2000
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,294 ratings — published 1956
Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.14 — 533 ratings — published 1969
San Francisco Poems (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.05 — 341 ratings — published 1998
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,066 ratings — published 1984
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,628 ratings — published 1961
Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.97 — 549 ratings — published 1968
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,529 ratings — published 1945
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,001 ratings — published 1971
Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.27 — 404 ratings — published 1965
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.04 — 269 ratings — published 1988
A Far Rockaway of the Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.11 — 532 ratings — published 1997
Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.16 — 311 ratings — published 1961
Poetry as Insurgent Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,092 ratings — published 2007
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.08 — 961 ratings — published 1985
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,102 ratings — published 1973
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,246 ratings — published 1963
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,162 ratings — published 1969
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,926 ratings — published 1962
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,567 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,702 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,382 ratings — published 1959
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,174 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,299 ratings — published 1972
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.79 — 88,521 ratings — published 1978
The Green Piano (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2004
Mad Dogs of Trieste: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.87 — 15 ratings — published 2000
Hand on the Doorknob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2000
When I Was a Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.75 — 89 ratings — published 2011
Little Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as beat-poets)
avg rating 3.65 — 531 ratings — published 2019
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