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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 — 454,496 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,740 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,231 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,802 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,604 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,502 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,347 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,415 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,062 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,839 ratings — published 1959
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,428 ratings — published 1985
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,246 ratings — published 1960
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,523 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,370 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,134 ratings — published 1960
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,664 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,582 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,959 ratings — published 1950
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 788,697 ratings — published 1962
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,365 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,923 ratings — published 1992
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,865 ratings — published 1957
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,954 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,352 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 3.61 — 3,118 ratings — published 2011
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,692 ratings — published 1969
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,771 ratings — published 1971
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,082 ratings — published 1973
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,872 ratings — published 1952
Beat Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.26 — 643 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 — 354 ratings — published 2004
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,977 ratings — published 1967
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,817 ratings — published 1992
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.22 — 841 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 — 1,460 ratings — published 1955
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,699 ratings — published 2006
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,622 ratings — published 1974
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,141 ratings — published 1961
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,458 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,941 ratings — published 1985
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,901 ratings — published 1983
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,586 ratings — published 2008
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.24 — 832 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 — 7,044 ratings — published 1984
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,174 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 — 2,556 ratings — published 1990
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,701 ratings — published 1998
“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
“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
