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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 479 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 451,756 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,263 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,259 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,788 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as beat)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,232 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,967 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,244 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,353 ratings — published 1958
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as beat)
avg rating 4.06 — 381,562 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,067 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,316 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,196 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,772 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,360 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,946 ratings — published 1971
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,502 ratings — published 1959
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,101 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,362 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,549 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,705 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,834 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,938 ratings — published 1950
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,153 ratings — published 1963
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,808 ratings — published 1959
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,555 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,868 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,678 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,885 ratings — published 1983
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,608 ratings — published 1981
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,339 ratings — published 1963
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,105 ratings — published 2011
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,026 ratings — published 1982
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,224 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,548 ratings — published 1975
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,733 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,968 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,589 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,729 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,333 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,374 ratings — published 1964
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,752 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,154 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,209 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,664 ratings — published 1966
“If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence
Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”
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for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence
Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”
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“Don't try to understand me, or to mess with me, or to beat me — just try to love me.”
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