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Beat Generation Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 381 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 444,834 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,062 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,582 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 100,946 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 70,874 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,639 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,998 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,734 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,767 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,229 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,343 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,575 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,246 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,862 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,887 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,074 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,493 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,025 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,735 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,903 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,451 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,933 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,613 ratings — published 1969
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,286 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,935 ratings — published 1967
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,539 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,914 ratings — published 1992
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,762 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 775,536 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,609 ratings — published 1959
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,224 ratings — published 1996
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.06 — 375,602 ratings — published 1971
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,851 ratings — published 1983
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,717 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.22 — 836 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,031 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,977 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,795 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,195 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,149 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,680 ratings — published 1973
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,452 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,716 ratings — published 1962
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.96 — 323 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,927 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,509 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,211 ratings — published 1956
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,109 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,284 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,158 ratings — published 1960
“Possessions are the weights on our chains,
designating us indentured servants in this game,
as time-saving devices erase time all the same—”
― Lorca's Grave
designating us indentured servants in this game,
as time-saving devices erase time all the same—”
― Lorca's Grave
“[T]he fine line between life and death, we finally find, is no line at all.”
― Lorca's Grave
― Lorca's Grave
