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
On the Road by Jack KerouacJunky by William S. BurroughsHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacChronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Beatniks
176 books — 22 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
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneMiael by Grea AlexanderCabello by Grea Alexander
Beating the Odds
26 books — 11 voters

On the Road by Jack KerouacHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsJunky by William S. Burroughs
Beat Lit
235 books — 182 voters

William S. Burroughs
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
William S. Burroughs

Jarod Kintz
Don’t try to be better than the best, because once you beat him, he’s a loser. And so what, you beat a loser. Does it make you feel good to go around beating losers?
Jarod Kintz, Me and memes and memories

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