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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 455,263 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,952 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,350 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,039 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,782 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 38,585 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,382 ratings — published 1945
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,706 ratings — published 1985
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,098 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,432 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,375 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,890 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,367 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 43 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,875 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,155 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,256 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,587 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,157 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,864 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,962 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,530 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,955 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,699 ratings — published 1969
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,556 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,922 ratings — published 1992
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,372 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,980 ratings — published 1967
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,844 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 789,780 ratings — published 1962
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,901 ratings — published 1983
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,670 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 — 1,225 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 — 384,755 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,777 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.21 — 842 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,125 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,015 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,817 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,250 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,165 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,692 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 — 1,460 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,752 ratings — published 1962
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,229 ratings — published 1963
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.97 — 326 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,944 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,633 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,257 ratings — published 1956
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,296 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,172 ratings — published 1960
“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
“O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
