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On the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 462,865 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 104,413 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 101,333 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 121,770 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 39,254 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 17,368 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,596 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,672 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,501 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 8,408 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,573 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 4,395 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 7,316 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 3,896 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,700 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,014 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 5,608 ratings — published 1959
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,891 ratings — published 1952
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 14,132 ratings — published 1957
Turtle Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,728 ratings — published 1974
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,941 ratings — published 1983
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,717 ratings — published 1981
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,992 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.42 — 7,271 ratings — published 1961
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,280 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,780 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 2,010 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 799,396 ratings — published 1962
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,027 ratings — published 1971
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 80,490 ratings — published 1968
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 Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.51 — 4,463 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,408 ratings — published 1963
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,779 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 — 391,003 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,116 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,278 ratings — published 2003
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,822 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,476 ratings — published 1955
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,465 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 1,956 ratings — published 1985
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,021 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,127 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.25 — 2,802 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,837 ratings — published 1992
“[W]e ourselves are
the skeletons who scare us,
faux grownups who could never care for us,
left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again.”
― Lorca's Grave
the skeletons who scare us,
faux grownups who could never care for us,
left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again.”
― Lorca's Grave
