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On the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 450,843 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 102,063 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 99,082 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 119,644 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 38,145 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 16,928 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,340 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,210 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,309 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8,185 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,550 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 4,359 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 7,041 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3,800 ratings — published 1959
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,932 ratings — published 1950
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,541 ratings — published 1961
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 5,494 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 13,741 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,866 ratings — published 1952
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,945 ratings — published 1971
Turtle Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,587 ratings — published 1974
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,596 ratings — published 1981
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,884 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,917 ratings — published 1992
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.43 — 7,089 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 783,584 ratings — published 1962
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 4,144 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,671 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,965 ratings — published 1967
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 79,283 ratings — published 1968
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,327 ratings — published 1963
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 4,320 ratings — published 1971
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,223 ratings — published 1996
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,733 ratings — published 1962
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beats)
avg rating 4.06 — 380,799 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,036 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,230 ratings — published 2003
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 952 ratings — published 1971
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,750 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,461 ratings — published 1955
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,457 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 1,932 ratings — published 1985
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 3,094 ratings — published 2011
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,970 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,066 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.27 — 2,653 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,813 ratings — published 1992
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!”
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“[T]he fine line between life and death, we finally find, is no line at all.”
― Lorca's Grave
― Lorca's Grave
