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On the Road (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 460,890 ratings — published 1957
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 103,934 ratings — published 1958
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 100,962 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 121,306 ratings — published 1956
Big Sur (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 39,085 ratings — published 1962
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 17,300 ratings — published 1958
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 12,555 ratings — published 1958
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 15,592 ratings — published 1945
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 12,461 ratings — published 1958
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 8,354 ratings — published 1960
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,567 ratings — published 1990
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 4,389 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 7,281 ratings — published 1960
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 3,883 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,662 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,000 ratings — published 1950
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 5,593 ratings — published 1959
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,890 ratings — published 1952
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 14,068 ratings — published 1957
Turtle Island (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,685 ratings — published 1974
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,929 ratings — published 1992
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,697 ratings — published 1981
The First Third (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 2,984 ratings — published 1971
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,934 ratings — published 1983
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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avg rating 3.42 — 7,232 ratings — published 1961
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 4,268 ratings — published 1963
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 3,757 ratings — published 1969
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 2,001 ratings — published 1967
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 796,706 ratings — published 1962
Revolutionary Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,015 ratings — published 1971
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 80,329 ratings — published 1968
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 4,443 ratings — published 1971
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,396 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 — 1,226 ratings — published 1996
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,772 ratings — published 1962
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 389,327 ratings — published 1971
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,082 ratings — published 1984
Book of Haikus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,271 ratings — published 2003
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,808 ratings — published 1971
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,473 ratings — published 1955
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,463 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 1,955 ratings — published 1985
Interzone (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 2,014 ratings — published 1987
Exterminator! (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,113 ratings — published 1973
Satori In Paris (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.26 — 2,774 ratings — published 1966
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,832 ratings — published 1992
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 3,173 ratings — published 2011
“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
“I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers.”
― Unravel Me
― Unravel Me
