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Beat Generation Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 442,237 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 97,485 ratings — published 1959
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 100,488 ratings — published 1958
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,062 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.85 — 70,472 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,445 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,913 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,640 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.50 — 22,305 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,192 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,332 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,496 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,861 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,814 ratings — published 1960
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,225 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,039 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,475 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 33 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,001 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,492 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,892 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,423 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,926 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,600 ratings — published 1969
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,274 ratings — published 1963
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,745 ratings — published 1959
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,928 ratings — published 1967
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,529 ratings — published 1990
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,907 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 772,089 ratings — published 1962
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,589 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 — 373,438 ratings — published 1971
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,222 ratings — published 1996
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,700 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.23 — 834 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,018 ratings — published 2011
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,838 ratings — published 1983
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,982 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,791 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,177 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,147 ratings — published 1963
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,709 ratings — published 1962
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,676 ratings — published 1973
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,449 ratings — published 1955
Collected Letters, 1944-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.96 — 321 ratings — published 2005
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,921 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,479 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,201 ratings — published 1956
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,277 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,156 ratings — published 1960
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,098 ratings — published 1963
“Smoking factories are the only real life here.
Living human corpses form their precious fuel—
fools ruled by more greedy, more ruthless fools.”
― Lorca's Grave
Living human corpses form their precious fuel—
fools ruled by more greedy, more ruthless fools.”
― Lorca's Grave
“William Burroughs was simultaneously old and young. Part sheriff, part gumshoe. All writer. He had a medicine chest he kept locked, but if you were in pain he would open it. He did not like to see his loved ones suffer. If you were infirm he would feed you. He’d appear at your door with a fish wrapped in newsprint and fry it up. He was inaccessible to a girl but I loved him anyway.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
