Beat Lit

1.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,475 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,394 ratings
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The Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums 3.93 avg rating — 99,781 ratings
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,894 ratings
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Junky
Junky 3.85 avg rating — 69,881 ratings
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Big Sur
Big Sur 3.84 avg rating — 37,134 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,603 ratings
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Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,711 ratings
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A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind 4.16 avg rating — 12,186 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 78,158 ratings
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Queer
Queer 3.50 avg rating — 21,576 ratings
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Go
Go 3.80 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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Desolation Angels
Desolation Angels 3.93 avg rating — 12,116 ratings
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks 3.72 avg rating — 14,791 ratings
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The Subterraneans
The Subterraneans 3.65 avg rating — 16,540 ratings
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Hollywood
Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 27,012 ratings
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Women
Women 3.80 avg rating — 84,212 ratings
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn 3.92 avg rating — 28,773 ratings
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Pictures of the Gone World
Pictures of the Gone World 4.10 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
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Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,438 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,568 ratings
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Turtle Island
Turtle Island 4.09 avg rating — 4,513 ratings
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The Rum Diary
The Rum Diary 3.85 avg rating — 64,701 ratings
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The Yage Letters
The Yage Letters 3.65 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8) 3.99 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 3.91 avg rating — 25,582 ratings
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Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir 4.07 avg rating — 2,830 ratings
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The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3)
The Ticket That Exploded (The Nova Trilogy, #3) 3.61 avg rating — 2,699 ratings
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Memoirs of a Beatnik
Memoirs of a Beatnik 3.68 avg rating — 3,561 ratings
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Meditations in an Emergency
Meditations in an Emergency 4.13 avg rating — 4,374 ratings
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Self-Published Kindling: Memoirs of a Homeless Bookstore Owner
Self-Published Kindling: Memoirs of a Homeless Bookstore Owner 3.95 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Visions of Cody
Visions of Cody 3.56 avg rating — 4,321 ratings
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1) 3.44 avg rating — 6,963 ratings
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Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 3,307 ratings
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The First Third
The First Third 3.63 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead
The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead 3.53 avg rating — 4,187 ratings
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Lonesome Traveler
Lonesome Traveler 3.75 avg rating — 7,989 ratings
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years 4.26 avg rating — 573 ratings
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Lyrics, 1962-1985
Lyrics, 1962-1985
by: Bob Dylan
4.59 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Lunch Poems
Lunch Poems 4.15 avg rating — 13,155 ratings
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The Happy Birthday of Death
The Happy Birthday of Death 4.13 avg rating — 712 ratings
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How I Became Hettie Jones
How I Became Hettie Jones 4.06 avg rating — 631 ratings
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Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye 4.14 avg rating — 115,652 ratings
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The Practice of the Wild
The Practice of the Wild 4.19 avg rating — 2,687 ratings
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Poems and Fragments
Poems and Fragments 4.32 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Kaddish and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems 4.19 avg rating — 9,457 ratings
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters 4.23 avg rating — 834 ratings
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In Watermelon Sugar
In Watermelon Sugar 3.78 avg rating — 24,495 ratings
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me 3.78 avg rating — 3,630 ratings
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Tristessa
Tristessa 3.65 avg rating — 6,749 ratings
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Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones 3.80 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
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Dinners and Nightmares
Dinners and Nightmares 4.15 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Lyrics, 1962-2001
Lyrics, 1962-2001
by: Bob Dylan
4.60 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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The Thousand Hour Club
The Thousand Hour Club 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Life... Love... Kumbh...
Life... Love... Kumbh... 3.59 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg 3.93 avg rating — 2,518 ratings
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The Holy Barbarians
The Holy Barbarians 3.65 avg rating — 623 ratings
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The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy, #3)
The Western Lands (The Red Night Trilogy, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 2,154 ratings
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The Beats: A Graphic History
The Beats: A Graphic History 3.48 avg rating — 2,174 ratings
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New Beat Newbie
New Beat Newbie 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 5,482 ratings
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The Horn
The Horn 3.99 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Town and the City
The Town and the City 3.92 avg rating — 3,875 ratings
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The Herbert Huncke Reader
The Herbert Huncke Reader 4.06 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Cosmopolitan Greetings
Cosmopolitan Greetings 3.84 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Essential Ginsberg
The Essential Ginsberg 4.17 avg rating — 632 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara 4.34 avg rating — 5,635 ratings
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Howl
Howl 4.07 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
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The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations 4.37 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Third Mind
The Third Mind 4.19 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.48 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness
Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness 4.26 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Her
Her 3.59 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Dead Lecturer
The Dead Lecturer 4.09 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems, 1950-1971
by: Lew Welch
4.26 avg rating — 226 ratings
79.
Kerouac: A Biography
Kerouac: A Biography 4.11 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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The Portable Beat Reader
The Portable Beat Reader 4.16 avg rating — 7,905 ratings
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Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 265 ratings
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The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation
The Beats Abroad: A Global Guide to the Beat Generation 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Black Music
Black Music 4.10 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Loba
Loba 4.05 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs 4.08 avg rating — 71 ratings
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1001 Ways to Beat the Draft
1001 Ways to Beat the Draft 4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays
Fast Speaking Woman: Chants and Essays 4.13 avg rating — 261 ratings
88.
In the Night Cafe
In the Night Cafe 3.72 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Get Home Free: A Novel
Get Home Free: A Novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Poetry as Insurgent Art
Poetry as Insurgent Art 4.11 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
91.
A Far Rockaway of the Heart
A Far Rockaway of the Heart 4.10 avg rating — 525 ratings
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100 Poems from the Japanese
100 Poems from the Japanese 4.21 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, After an Abortion
Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, After an Abortion 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cannibal Sunflowers and Van Gogh's Ear
Cannibal Sunflowers and Van Gogh's Ear 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
Scientologist! William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult' 4.16 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Fantastic Lodge: The Shocking Autobiography of a Girl Addict
The Fantastic Lodge: The Shocking Autobiography of a Girl Addict 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Naked Lens: Beat Cinema
Naked Lens: Beat Cinema 4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol
Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol 4.15 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso
The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg 3.82 avg rating — 89 ratings
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