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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 477 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,446 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as beat)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,833 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,803 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as beat)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,426 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as beat)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,029 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,879 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as beat)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,161 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,315 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 — 379,489 ratings — published 1971
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,001 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,293 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,160 ratings — published 1960
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,691 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as beat)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,357 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as beat)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,944 ratings — published 1971
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,483 ratings — published 1959
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 45 times as beat)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,075 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,141 ratings — published 1968
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,530 ratings — published 1961
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,843 ratings — published 1971
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as beat)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,664 ratings — published 1962
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,912 ratings — published 1992
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beat)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,132 ratings — published 1963
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beat)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,932 ratings — published 1950
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,545 ratings — published 1990
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,863 ratings — published 1952
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,792 ratings — published 1959
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,649 ratings — published 1969
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,879 ratings — published 1983
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,316 ratings — published 1963
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat)
avg rating 4.14 — 119,184 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 — 1,222 ratings — published 1996
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,087 ratings — published 2011
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,148 ratings — published 1975
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,576 ratings — published 1981
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as beat)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,727 ratings — published 1962
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,953 ratings — published 1967
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,556 ratings — published 1956
The Place of Dead Roads (The Red Night Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,712 ratings — published 1983
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,303 ratings — published 1971
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as beat)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,366 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 — 1,459 ratings — published 1955
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,738 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,158 ratings — published 1963
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,100 ratings — published 1969
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as beat)
avg rating 3.27 — 2,633 ratings — published 1966
“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
“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
― Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
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