Where to Start with the Beat Generation

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• Jack Kerouac, On The Road (1957)
• Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems (1959)
• William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)
• Jack Kerouac, Big Sur (1962)
• Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems (1961)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
• Gary Snyder, The Back Country (1968)
• Gregory Corso, Gasoline (1958)
• Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (1958)