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On the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 460,888 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 103,934 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 100,962 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 121,306 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 39,085 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 17,300 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,555 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,592 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,461 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 8,354 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,567 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 4,389 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 7,281 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 3,883 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,662 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,000 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 5,593 ratings — published 1959
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,890 ratings — published 1952
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 14,068 ratings — published 1957
Turtle Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,685 ratings — published 1974
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,697 ratings — published 1981
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,984 ratings — published 1971
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,934 ratings — published 1983
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.42 — 7,232 ratings — published 1961
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,268 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,757 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 2,001 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 796,705 ratings — published 1962
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,015 ratings — published 1971
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 80,329 ratings — published 1968
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 4,443 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,396 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 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,772 ratings — published 1962
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 389,326 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,082 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,271 ratings — published 2003
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,808 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,473 ratings — published 1955
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,463 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 1,955 ratings — published 1985
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,014 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,113 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.26 — 2,774 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,832 ratings — published 1992
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 3,173 ratings — published 2011
“Why else should we live but to discuss (at least) the horror and the terror of all this life, God how old we get and some of us go mad and everything changes viciously—it’s that vicious change that hurts, as soon as something is cool and complete it fall apart and burns—”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“All brace to taste life’s bitter curse—
A second birth, but in reverse—
A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.”
― Lorca's Grave
A second birth, but in reverse—
A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.”
― Lorca's Grave
