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The Beats Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,847 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,142 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,559 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 104,171 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,031 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,163 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,633 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,580 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,332 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,770 ratings — published 1985
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,889 ratings — published 1959
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,385 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,694 ratings — published 1961
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.58 — 5,602 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,394 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 798,015 ratings — published 1962
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,294 ratings — published 1960
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,720 ratings — published 1959
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,009 ratings — published 1950
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,403 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,485 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,093 ratings — published 1957
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,986 ratings — published 1971
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,700 ratings — published 1973
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,817 ratings — published 1971
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,121 ratings — published 1973
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,892 ratings — published 1952
Beat Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.26 — 651 ratings — published 1992
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.05 — 368 ratings — published 2004
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,569 ratings — published 1990
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,179 ratings — published 2011
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,836 ratings — published 1992
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.21 — 849 ratings — published 2010
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,775 ratings — published 1969
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,786 ratings — published 2006
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,252 ratings — published 1961
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,465 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,956 ratings — published 1985
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,936 ratings — published 1983
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.24 — 838 ratings — published 2002
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 770 ratings — published 1947
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,118 ratings — published 1984
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,272 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,005 ratings — published 1967
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,753 ratings — published 1998
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.79 — 89,083 ratings — published 1978
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.06 — 390,134 ratings — published 1971
“Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank -- or to blame.”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
“The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
