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Beatnik Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 443,000 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 100,607 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.46 — 97,600 ratings — published 1959
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,491 ratings — published 1962
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.13 — 118,218 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 70,582 ratings — published 1953
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,938 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,194 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,661 ratings — published 1958
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,516 ratings — published 1957
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.49 — 22,447 ratings — published 1985
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,235 ratings — published 1958
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.14 — 117,010 ratings — published 1982
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,047 ratings — published 1960
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,565 ratings — published 1968
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.06 — 374,066 ratings — published 1971
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,089 ratings — published 1975
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,228 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,600 ratings — published 1969
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,895 ratings — published 1950
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,439 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,909 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.20 — 773,009 ratings — published 1962
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.91 — 25,761 ratings — published 1969
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,005 ratings — published 1961
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,534 ratings — published 1990
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,749 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,478 ratings — published 1961
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,301 ratings — published 1977
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,837 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,337 ratings — published 1959
Pictures of the Gone World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,523 ratings — published
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 2.79 — 1,857 ratings — published 2018
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 60,956 ratings — published 2004
Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.97 — 542 ratings — published 1968
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,706 ratings — published 1971
Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.15 — 301 ratings — published 1961
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.59 — 6,284 ratings — published 1999
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,449 ratings — published 1955
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,024 ratings — published 2011
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,594 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,841 ratings — published 1983
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,930 ratings — published 1971
Reality Sandwiches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,147 ratings — published 1963
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,711 ratings — published 1962
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 65,207 ratings — published 1998
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.78 — 24,659 ratings — published 1968
“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
“[W]e ourselves are
the skeletons who scare us,
faux grownups who could never care for us,
left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again.”
― Lorca's Grave
the skeletons who scare us,
faux grownups who could never care for us,
left alone to watch in terror as all life is extinguished again.”
― Lorca's Grave
