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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,167 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,503 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,978 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,545 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,342 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,368 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,309 ratings — published 1945
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,014 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,224 ratings — published 1985
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,378 ratings — published 1958
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,367 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,817 ratings — published 1957
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,334 ratings — published 1958
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 42 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,868 ratings — published 1952
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,112 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,227 ratings — published 1960
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,570 ratings — published 1961
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 35 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,123 ratings — published 1961
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,507 ratings — published 1968
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,951 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,511 ratings — published 1959
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,950 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,683 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 — 7,920 ratings — published 1992
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,352 ratings — published 1963
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,974 ratings — published 1967
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,823 ratings — published 1959
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.20 — 786,793 ratings — published 1962
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,888 ratings — published 1983
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,651 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 — 382,785 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,761 ratings — published 1971
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.21 — 839 ratings — published 2010
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,110 ratings — published 2011
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,238 ratings — published 1971
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,816 ratings — published 1992
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,239 ratings — published 2003
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,156 ratings — published 1963
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,689 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 — 2,740 ratings — published 1962
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 — 1,939 ratings — published 1985
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,617 ratings — published 1956
Howl (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,249 ratings — published 1956
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,164 ratings — published 1963
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,294 ratings — published 1972
Book of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beat-generation)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,170 ratings — published 1960
“All brace to taste life’s bitter curse—
A second birth, but in reverse—
A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.”
― Lorca's Grave
A second birth, but in reverse—
A return to the cold, hard womb of earth.”
― Lorca's Grave
“[W]hat we think is real is only
a mind virus of synthetic words, quite empty,
and ready to fall like a house of cards
at the slightest provocation,
the slightest exploration.”
― Lorca's Grave
a mind virus of synthetic words, quite empty,
and ready to fall like a house of cards
at the slightest provocation,
the slightest exploration.”
― Lorca's Grave
