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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 456,023 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,082 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,195 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,466 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,652 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,132 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,421 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,445 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 — 385,479 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,174 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,367 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,265 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,918 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,379 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,542 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,961 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,168 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,975 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,591 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,299 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,762 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,926 ratings — published 1992
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,969 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,852 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,238 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,556 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,876 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,710 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,906 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,376 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,653 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,130 ratings — published 2011
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,610 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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,311 ratings — published 1975
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,755 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,984 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,646 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,749 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,394 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,402 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 — 2,781 ratings — published 1971
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,712 ratings — published 1966
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,169 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,389 ratings — published 1969
“Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to stay home and mind the baby now you're gone--how can she keep her job? and she never wants to see you again and I don't blame her. If you see Ed along the road you tell him to come back to me or I'll kill him."
Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitiful dream. Then a complete silence fell over everybody; where once Dean would have talked his way out, he now fell silent himself, but standing in front of everybody, ragged and broken and idiotic, right under the lightbulbs, his bony mad face covered with sweat and throbbing veins, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," as though tremendous revelations were pouring into him all the time now, and I am convinced they were, and the others suspected as much and were frightened. He was BEAT--the root, the soul of Beatific.”
― On the Road
Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitiful dream. Then a complete silence fell over everybody; where once Dean would have talked his way out, he now fell silent himself, but standing in front of everybody, ragged and broken and idiotic, right under the lightbulbs, his bony mad face covered with sweat and throbbing veins, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," as though tremendous revelations were pouring into him all the time now, and I am convinced they were, and the others suspected as much and were frightened. He was BEAT--the root, the soul of Beatific.”
― On the Road
“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.”
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