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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 458,404 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,491 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,484 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,862 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as beat)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,863 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,201 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,512 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,495 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 — 387,343 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,225 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,416 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,302 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,996 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,382 ratings — published 1959
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,558 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,966 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,198 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,091 ratings — published 1968
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,179 ratings — published 1971
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,614 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 — 793,646 ratings — published 1962
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,980 ratings — published 1950
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,863 ratings — published 1959
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,243 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,560 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,884 ratings — published 1952
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,724 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,925 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,382 ratings — published 1963
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,669 ratings — published 1981
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,147 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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,671 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 122,503 ratings — published 1982
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,760 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,991 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,697 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,758 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,417 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,413 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 — 1,467 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,796 ratings — published 1971
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,752 ratings — published 1966
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,173 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,511 ratings — published 1969
“All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“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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