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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 — 457,061 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,267 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,636 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,398 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,131 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,747 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,458 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,468 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,170 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,859 ratings — published 1959
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.48 — 25,057 ratings — published 1985
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,282 ratings — published 1960
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,554 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,380 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,196 ratings — published 1960
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,688 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,599 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,969 ratings — published 1950
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,144 ratings — published 1962
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,378 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,928 ratings — published 1992
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,945 ratings — published 1957
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,964 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,378 ratings — published 1958
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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,694 ratings — published 1973
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,138 ratings — published 2011
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,715 ratings — published 1969
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,787 ratings — published 1971
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,097 ratings — published 1973
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,880 ratings — published 1952
Beat Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.26 — 643 ratings — published 1992
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,238 ratings — published 1963
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.05 — 358 ratings — published 2004
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,985 ratings — published 1967
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,821 ratings — published 1992
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.21 — 844 ratings — published 2010
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,463 ratings — published 1955
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,701 ratings — published 2006
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,630 ratings — published 1974
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,183 ratings — published 1961
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,461 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,950 ratings — published 1985
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,915 ratings — published 1983
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,600 ratings — published 2008
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.24 — 833 ratings — published 2002
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 763 ratings — published 1947
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,039 ratings — published 1984
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,558 ratings — published 1990
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.85 — 67,089 ratings — published 1998
“I’ve all these two days spent filing old letters, taking them out of old envelopes, clipping the pages together, putting them away . . . hundreds of old letters from Allen, Burroughs, Cassady, enuf to make you cry the enthusiasms of younger men . . . how bleak we become. And fame kills all. Someday ¨The Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac¨ will make America cry.
[— Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, May 25, 1961]”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
[— Jack Kerouac, in a letter to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, May 25, 1961]”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“The Beats, like their successors in the Sixties, have often been described as 'idealists'. But fantasies of total gratification are not the product of idealism. They arise from a narcissism that, finding the world unequal to its desires, retreats into a realm of heedless self-absorption. Modesty, convention, and self-restraint then appear as the enemies rather than as the allies of humanity. In this sense, the Beat generation marks a step away from civilization.”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
