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Beatnik Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 452,997 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 102,507 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,465 ratings — published 1959
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,348 ratings — published 1962
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,945 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,307 ratings — published 1953
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,298 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,375 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,005 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,195 ratings — published 1985
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.14 — 120,496 ratings — published 1982
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,809 ratings — published 1957
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,623 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,334 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,222 ratings — published 1960
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,489 ratings — published 1968
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,745 ratings — published 1975
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 141,177 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,682 ratings — published 1969
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,949 ratings — published 1950
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,107 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,919 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.20 — 786,525 ratings — published 1962
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,273 ratings — published 1969
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,123 ratings — published 1961
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,556 ratings — published 1990
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,821 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,569 ratings — published 1961
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,242 ratings — published 1977
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,104 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,363 ratings — published 1959
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 2.76 — 2,042 ratings — published 2018
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,341 ratings — published 2004
Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 306 ratings — published 1961
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,287 ratings — published 1999
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,110 ratings — published 2011
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,651 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,887 ratings — published 1983
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,949 ratings — published 1971
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,738 ratings — published 1962
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,619 ratings — published 1981
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,484 ratings — published 1998
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,203 ratings — published 1968
White Shroud (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.69 — 346 ratings — published 1986
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,224 ratings — published 1992
Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 544 ratings — published 1968
“Craving immortality, my mind masters fraud:
My spirit’s projected as my brain cells applaud.”
― Lorca's Grave
My spirit’s projected as my brain cells applaud.”
― Lorca's Grave
“Maybe that’s what death is—
When our curiosity
Gets the better of us
And is finally fully satisfied
When we take that last big leap
Off the edge of our lives,
Foregoing our present reality,
Undermining our seeming immortality,
Undertaking the fatal freefall
Of understanding all,
Momentarily seeing clearly,
Comprehending completely,
Realizing thoroughly and literally
That everything
Is nothing After all.”
― Lorca's Grave
When our curiosity
Gets the better of us
And is finally fully satisfied
When we take that last big leap
Off the edge of our lives,
Foregoing our present reality,
Undermining our seeming immortality,
Undertaking the fatal freefall
Of understanding all,
Momentarily seeing clearly,
Comprehending completely,
Realizing thoroughly and literally
That everything
Is nothing After all.”
― Lorca's Grave
