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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 448,232 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 101,567 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,605 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,240 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,911 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 16,835 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,292 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,121 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,278 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8,135 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,354 ratings — published 1959
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,543 ratings — published 1990
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,964 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3,790 ratings — published 1959
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,923 ratings — published 1950
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,524 ratings — published 1961
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,476 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,658 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,864 ratings — published 1952
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,569 ratings — published 1974
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,565 ratings — published 1981
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,129 ratings — published 1963
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,943 ratings — published 1971
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,914 ratings — published 1992
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,060 ratings — published 1961
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,945 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 780,010 ratings — published 1962
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,640 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,871 ratings — published 1983
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,016 ratings — published 1968
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 3,305 ratings — published 1963
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,224 ratings — published 1996
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,286 ratings — published 1971
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,727 ratings — published 1962
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beats)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,418 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 12 times as beats)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,457 ratings — published 1955
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,034 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,219 ratings — published 2003
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,456 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 1,930 ratings — published 1985
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 934 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,727 ratings — published 1971
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,080 ratings — published 2011
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,962 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,063 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.27 — 2,613 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,806 ratings — published 1992
“I was about to be swallowed / By my mother's womb— / Where I might enjoy again / The perfect solitude of death.”
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“[W]hat we think is real is only
a mind virus of synthetic words, quite empty,
and ready to fall like a house of cards
at the slightest provocation,
the slightest exploration.”
― Lorca's Grave
a mind virus of synthetic words, quite empty,
and ready to fall like a house of cards
at the slightest provocation,
the slightest exploration.”
― Lorca's Grave
