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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 453,744 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 102,667 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 99,621 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 120,094 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 38,431 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 17,038 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,397 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,327 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,345 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8,238 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,557 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 4,366 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 7,125 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 3,831 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,579 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,955 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 5,519 ratings — published 1959
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,845 ratings — published 1957
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,871 ratings — published 1952
Turtle Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,615 ratings — published 1974
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,624 ratings — published 1981
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,951 ratings — published 1971
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.43 — 7,132 ratings — published 1961
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,893 ratings — published 1983
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,921 ratings — published 1992
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,169 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,686 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,975 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 787,681 ratings — published 1962
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,584 ratings — published 1968
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beats)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,357 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,358 ratings — published 1963
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 — 1,225 ratings — published 1996
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,746 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 — 383,347 ratings — published 1971
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 972 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,042 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,246 ratings — published 2003
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,765 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 11 times as beats)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,459 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 — 1,940 ratings — published 1985
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,986 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,081 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.27 — 2,688 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,817 ratings — published 1992
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 3,113 ratings — published 2011
“Dove-white dawn illumes life’s worth
As mourners load crow-black hearse
To feed remains to hungry dirt.
From nothing to nothing, from dust to dust.
Life delays, then betrays;
It is death alone that we can trust.”
― Lorca's Grave
As mourners load crow-black hearse
To feed remains to hungry dirt.
From nothing to nothing, from dust to dust.
Life delays, then betrays;
It is death alone that we can trust.”
― 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
