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The Beats Books
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On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,332 ratings — published 1957
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,813 ratings — published 1959
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.13 — 119,416 ratings — published 1956
The Dharma Bums (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,780 ratings — published 1958
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,624 ratings — published 1953
Big Sur (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,021 ratings — published 1962
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,156 ratings — published 1945
Desolation Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,312 ratings — published 1958
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,880 ratings — published 1958
Mexico City Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,791 ratings — published 1959
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,547 ratings — published 1985
Maggie Cassidy (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,482 ratings — published 1959
Visions of Cody (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,357 ratings — published 1959
Tristessa (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,000 ratings — published 1960
Lonesome Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,158 ratings — published 1960
Dr. Sax (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.40 — 3,635 ratings — published 1959
Kaddish and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,529 ratings — published 1961
The Town and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,930 ratings — published 1950
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 781,485 ratings — published 1962
Visions of Gerard (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,313 ratings — published 1963
The Portable Beat Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,912 ratings — published 1992
On the Road: The Original Scroll (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,689 ratings — published 1957
The First Third (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,944 ratings — published 1971
A Coney Island of the Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,292 ratings — published 1958
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,222 ratings — published 1996
Kerouac: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,681 ratings — published 1973
The Sea Is My Brother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,087 ratings — published 2011
Memoirs of a Beatnik (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,649 ratings — published 1969
Exterminator! (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,062 ratings — published 1973
Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 6 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,864 ratings — published 1952
Beat Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.26 — 639 ratings — published 1992
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.06 — 349 ratings — published 2004
Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,952 ratings — published 1967
Pomes All Sizes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,807 ratings — published 1992
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.22 — 836 ratings — published 2010
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,459 ratings — published 1955
Collected Poems 1947-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,686 ratings — published 2006
Turtle Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,575 ratings — published 1974
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.43 — 7,073 ratings — published 1961
Scattered Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,738 ratings — published 1971
Some of the Dharma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,457 ratings — published 1997
Satori in Paris & Pic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,929 ratings — published 1985
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,879 ratings — published 1983
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.31 — 1,569 ratings — published 2008
Orpheus Emerged (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.25 — 829 ratings — published 2002
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.20 — 754 ratings — published 1947
Collected Poems, 1947-1980 (paper)
by (shelved 5 times as the-beats)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,036 ratings — published 1984
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,131 ratings — published 1963
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,544 ratings — published 1990
The Rum Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as the-beats)
avg rating 3.85 — 65,951 ratings — published 1998
“Who dreamt
and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space
through images juxtaposed,
and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images
and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun
and dash of consciousness together
jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human
prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame”
― Howl and Other Poems
and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space
through images juxtaposed,
and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images
and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun
and dash of consciousness together
jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human
prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame”
― Howl and Other Poems
“The Beats are crucial to an understanding of America's cultural revolution not least because in their lives, their proclamations, and (for lack of a more accurate term) their 'work' they anticipated so many of the pathologies of the Sixties and Seventies. Their programmatic anti-Americanism, their avid celebration of drug abuse, their squalid, promiscuous sex lives, their pseudo-spirituality, their attack on rationality and their degradation of intellectual standards, their aggressive narcissism and juvenile political posturing: in all this and more, the Beats were every bit as 'advanced' as any Sixties radical.”
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
― The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
