446 books
—
199 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Beatnik Books
Showing 1-50 of 437
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 459,806 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,740 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,736 ratings — published 1959
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,988 ratings — published 1962
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,067 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,625 ratings — published 1953
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,557 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,535 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,259 ratings — published 1958
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.06 — 388,454 ratings — published 1971
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,480 ratings — published 1985
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,221 ratings — published 1968
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.13 — 123,032 ratings — published 1982
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,040 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,434 ratings — published 1958
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.20 — 795,297 ratings — published 1962
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,332 ratings — published 1960
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,921 ratings — published 1975
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,703 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,742 ratings — published 1969
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,993 ratings — published 1950
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,565 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,928 ratings — published 1992
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,572 ratings — published 1969
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,642 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,212 ratings — published 1961
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,564 ratings — published 1990
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,880 ratings — published 1959
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,816 ratings — published 1977
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,255 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,385 ratings — published 1959
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 2.75 — 2,121 ratings — published 2018
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,961 ratings — published 2004
Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.15 — 313 ratings — published 1961
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,290 ratings — published 1999
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,159 ratings — published 2011
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,705 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,929 ratings — published 1983
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,976 ratings — published 1971
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,765 ratings — published 1962
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,687 ratings — published 1981
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,526,016 ratings — published 1969
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,474 ratings — published 1998
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,675 ratings — published 1968
White Shroud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.70 — 352 ratings — published 1986
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,360 ratings — published 1992
Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 548 ratings — published 1968
“Maybe that’s what death is—
When our curiosity
Gets the better of us
And is finally fully satisfied
When we take that last big leap
Off the edge of our lives,
Foregoing our present reality,
Undermining our seeming immortality,
Undertaking the fatal freefall
Of understanding all,
Momentarily seeing clearly,
Comprehending completely,
Realizing thoroughly and literally
That everything
Is nothing After all.”
― Lorca's Grave
When our curiosity
Gets the better of us
And is finally fully satisfied
When we take that last big leap
Off the edge of our lives,
Foregoing our present reality,
Undermining our seeming immortality,
Undertaking the fatal freefall
Of understanding all,
Momentarily seeing clearly,
Comprehending completely,
Realizing thoroughly and literally
That everything
Is nothing After all.”
― Lorca's Grave
“We, too, are beings
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― Lorca's Grave
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― Lorca's Grave
