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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 391 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 460,485 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,888 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,202 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,859 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,783 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,050 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,577 ratings — published 1945
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,587 ratings — published 1985
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,283 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,551 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,054 ratings — published 1957
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,387 ratings — published 1959
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,447 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 44 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,889 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,272 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,647 ratings — published 1961
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 8,344 ratings — published 1960
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,224 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,292 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,000 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,589 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,982 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,749 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,998 ratings — published 1967
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,564 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,930 ratings — published 1992
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,393 ratings — published 1963
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,882 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,931 ratings — published 1983
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,183 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,708 ratings — published 1959
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 — 389,007 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,804 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.21 — 847 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,164 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,987 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,830 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,271 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,175 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,695 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 — 1,473 ratings — published 1955
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,771 ratings — published 1962
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,265 ratings — published 1963
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.97 — 329 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,953 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,795 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 — 1,300 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,179 ratings — published 1960
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,319 ratings — published 1956
“I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness.”
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
― Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
