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Beatnik Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 450,332 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,951 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,982 ratings — published 1959
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,105 ratings — published 1962
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,571 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,809 ratings — published 1953
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,198 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,332 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,914 ratings — published 1958
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,739 ratings — published 1985
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.14 — 119,508 ratings — published 1982
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,724 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 — 380,325 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,301 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,177 ratings — published 1960
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,227 ratings — published 1968
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,309 ratings — published 1975
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,179 ratings — published 1971
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,660 ratings — published 1969
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,931 ratings — published 1950
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,920 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,881 ratings — published 1962
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,150 ratings — published 1969
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,082 ratings — published 1961
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,548 ratings — published 1990
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,795 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,539 ratings — published 1961
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,023 ratings — published 1977
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,028 ratings — published 1960
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,358 ratings — published 1959
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 2.77 — 2,000 ratings — published 2018
Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,062 ratings — published 2004
Dinners and Nightmares (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.15 — 303 ratings — published 1961
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,286 ratings — published 1999
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,091 ratings — published 2011
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,638 ratings — published 1959
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,881 ratings — published 1983
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,945 ratings — published 1971
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,731 ratings — published 1962
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,586 ratings — published 1981
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.85 — 66,125 ratings — published 1998
In Watermelon Sugar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,047 ratings — published 1968
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,183 ratings — published 1992
Planet News (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as beatnik)
avg rating 3.98 — 544 ratings — published 1968
“We, too, are beings
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― Lorca's Grave
Loitering until dispatched—
The eggs of ghosts
Waiting to hatch.”
― 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
