Beat


On the Road
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
The Dharma Bums
Junky
Howl and Other Poems
Big Sur
The Subterraneans
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
Desolation Angels
Queer
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Tristessa
A Coney Island of the Mind
Lonesome Traveler
On the Road: The Original Scroll
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the F... by Charles BukowskiNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Cat Inside by William S. BurroughsA Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence FerlinghettiOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats
104 books — 4 voters
Anxiety by Danny WinterWoody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast by Danny WinterNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Ipswich Bus by Robbie FranklinEchoes From a Cobbled Street by David Hayes
Words that Influence
44 books — 16 voters

The Rum Diary by Hunter S. ThompsonThe Whole Shot by Rick SchoberDon't Hide the Madness by William S. BurroughsVisions of Cody by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Books of the Beats
10 books — 3 voters

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake by Breece D'J PancakeThe Light the Dead See by Frank StanfordThe Americans by Robert  FrankThe Gunfighters Showdowns and shoot outs in the Old West by Paul TrachtmanPic by Jack Kerouac
Tom Waits' Top 10 Favorite Books
10 books — 1 voter
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldTropic of Cancer by Henry MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacAsk the Dust by John FanteNobody Special by Jack Deadmen
The Lonesome Narrator
36 books — 15 voters

Markus Zusak
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me. ...more
Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

The poet floats above— Stateless, ageless, timeless, guileless— A creator of beauty, An excavator of truth, A healer of fear, A harbinger of love.
Rick Klaus Theis, Lorca's Grave

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