 | On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £3.49 The bible of the Beat Generation - although there is more to it than this. Good if you are 17 and male.
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 | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.75 Kerouac at his finest - a superior book to the famous 'On The Road'
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 | Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: £0.59 / Used from: £0.58 The Greatest piece of long poetry of the Twentieth Century. Fantastic.
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 | Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £11.61 A comprehensive Ginsberg reader.
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 | Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £2.00 Burrough's most famous work.
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 | Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems by Gary Snyder
Buy new: £2.69 / Used from: £7.89 Many people cannot see past the Beat 'Holy Trinity' of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. Snyder is just as accomplished.
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 | The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry and Translations, 1952-1998 by Gary Snyder
Buy new: £9.21 / Used from: £12.13 A beautiful collection of Snyder's writing, not just the Beat years.
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 | The First Third by Neal Cassady
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £4.25 The only writing by Cassady, who was fictionalised as Dean Moriarty in 'On The Road' by Kerouac.
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 | Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944-1967 by Neal Cassady
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £7.21 Letters from Dean Moriarty - the truth behind Kerouac's fictionalisation of his friend.
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 | Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters
Buy used from: £2.99 Best Kerouac biog
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 | Ginsberg: A Biography by Barry Miles
Buy new: £8.20 / Used from: £2.50 Best Ginsberg biog
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| Off the Road: Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg (Flamingo) by Carolyn Cassady
Buy used from: £2.42 Carolyn knew all the men and her viewpoint is important and refreshing. The Other Side of the romantic Dean Moriarty coin.
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| As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady by Allen Ginsberg
Buy used from: £121.95 Correspondence between Ginsy and Cassady - great to read for insight and depth.
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| Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation by John Tytell
Buy used from: £22.92 An excellent general study aid.
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 | The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library)
Buy new: £23.92 / Used from: £4.99 A great book to read if you wish to learn about more obscure writers under the 'Beat' umbrella.
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