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The Beats Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,704 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,254 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,779 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,249 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,057 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,228 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,243 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,352 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,967 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,808 ratings — published 1959
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.48 — 23,961 ratings — published 1985
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,502 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,360 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,064 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,194 ratings — published 1960
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,648 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,547 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,939 ratings — published 1950
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,778 ratings — published 1962
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,338 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,768 ratings — published 1957
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,946 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,315 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 — 1,223 ratings — published 1996
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,685 ratings — published 1973
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,104 ratings — published 2011
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,679 ratings — published 1969
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,068 ratings — published 1973
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,868 ratings — published 1952
Beat Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.26 — 641 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 4.06 — 351 ratings — published 2004
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,968 ratings — published 1967
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,814 ratings — published 1992
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.22 — 837 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 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,687 ratings — published 2006
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,593 ratings — published 1974
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,100 ratings — published 1961
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,753 ratings — published 1971
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,456 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,935 ratings — published 1985
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,884 ratings — published 1983
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,577 ratings — published 2008
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.25 — 830 ratings — published 2002
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 758 ratings — published 1947
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,034 ratings — published 1984
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,153 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,554 ratings — published 1990
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,302 ratings — published 1998
“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, 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
