13 books
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4 voters
Beats Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 450,843 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,063 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,082 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,644 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,145 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,928 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,340 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,210 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,309 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,185 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,550 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,359 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,041 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beats)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,800 ratings — published 1959
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,932 ratings — published 1950
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,541 ratings — published 1961
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,494 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,741 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as beats)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,866 ratings — published 1952
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,945 ratings — published 1971
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,587 ratings — published 1974
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,596 ratings — published 1981
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,884 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,089 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 783,584 ratings — published 1962
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,144 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,671 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,965 ratings — published 1967
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,283 ratings — published 1968
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,327 ratings — published 1963
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,320 ratings — published 1971
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,223 ratings — published 1996
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,733 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 — 380,799 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 12 times as beats)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,036 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as beats)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,230 ratings — published 2003
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 4.30 — 952 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,750 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,457 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,932 ratings — published 1985
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,094 ratings — published 2011
Interzone (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,970 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,066 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,653 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beats)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,813 ratings — published 1992
“tick... tock... tick... tock…
this mocking by clocks
never stops,
until it does—
and then we rot.”
― Lorca's Grave
this mocking by clocks
never stops,
until it does—
and then we rot.”
― Lorca's Grave















