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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 484 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,766 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,945 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,914 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,278 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,077 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,299 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,588 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,556 ratings — published 1958
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as beat)
avg rating 4.06 — 389,238 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,278 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,457 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,348 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,388 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,064 ratings — published 1957
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,591 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,984 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,230 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,316 ratings — published 1968
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,092 ratings — published 1971
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,661 ratings — published 1961
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,547 ratings — published 1962
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,001 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,884 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,266 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,567 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 35 times as beat)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,890 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,755 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,933 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,396 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,696 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,170 ratings — published 2011
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 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,117 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 123,416 ratings — published 1982
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,773 ratings — published 1962
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,803 ratings — published 1956
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,001 ratings — published 1967
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,442 ratings — published 1971
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,771 ratings — published 1983
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,428 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 — 1,473 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,808 ratings — published 1971
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,773 ratings — published 1966
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,175 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,625 ratings — published 1969
“I was about to be swallowed
By my mother's womb—
Where I might enjoy again
The perfect solitude of death.”
― Lorca's Grave
By my mother's womb—
Where I might enjoy again
The perfect solitude of death.”
― Lorca's Grave
