Beat & Post-Beat Classics

A Listmania! list by Cuban Heel "Neil Schiller" (Liverpool)
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On the Road
1.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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  "Obvious one - but then it is THE Beat Book...."
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Lonesome Traveler (Paladin Books)
2.  Lonesome Traveler (Paladin Books) by Jack Kerouac
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  "Just as good as On the Road, in a travelling America, Woody Guthrie type way."
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Howl (Pocket Poets)
3.  Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
The list author says:
  "Rambling genius. A bit like a stoned '60s Dennis Leary. I love 'In the Baggage Room at Greyhound'. Superb."
£5.39   Used & New from: £1.31
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics)
4.  Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William Burroughs
The list author says:
  "Extremely odd but one you'll never run out of things to talk or think about."
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
5.  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
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  "Critique of sixties America."
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The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
6.  The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The list author says:
  "The book that explains how Kesey links the Beats to the Psychodelic movement."
£6.39   Used & New from: £1.91
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

A Confederate General from Big Sur ("Rebel Inc." Classics)
7.  A Confederate General from Big Sur ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Richard Brautigan
The list author says:
  "The most Beat-like of Brautigan's books. Leads on into something new."
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
8.  Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
The list author says:
  "Underground Newspaper articles from the sixties. More of a Beat Reactionary."
£9.89   Used & New from: £0.95
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Post Office: A Novel
9.  Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
The list author says:
  "You can see the Beat influence, even if he'd never admit it."
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Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets)
10.  Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets) by Frank O'Hara
The list author says:
  "A bit more mainstream than the Beats, but interesting nonetheless. I'm including this 'cos I can't find The Hotel Wentley Poems by John Weiners."
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Panther)
11.  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Panther) by Raymond Carver
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  "Couldn't have been written without the influence of all the above."
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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps
12.  Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps by Emmett Grogan
The list author says:
  "Fantastic chronicle of the emerging hippy scene, it's political goals and it's contradictory ambitions."
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4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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Go (Penguin Modern Classics)
13.  Go (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Clellon Holmes
The list author says:
  "Vastly underrated chronicle of the Beat era, probably more comprehensive and illustrative than anything by Kerouac."
£7.69   Used & New from: £3.78
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

The Hotel Wentley Poems
14.  The Hotel Wentley Poems by Wieners
The list author says:
  "Now I've found it, kind of. Tremendous collection of countercultural poems."
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