8 Top novels books like Go by John Clellon Holmes

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Go

By: John Clellon Holmes

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, …

"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

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1. Go

By: John Clellon Holmes

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac, … read more

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"The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

"But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take."

-John Clellon Holmes, Go

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

2. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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3. Howl and Other Poems

By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg

4.13

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotec… read more

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"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

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4. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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5. Omensetter's Luck

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more

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6. Big Sur

By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more

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7. First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

By: Neal Cassady

4.13

Format: 277 pages,

Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infa… read more

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8. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By: William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac

4.06

Format: None pages,

On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man nam… read more

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9. The Wild Boys

By: William S. Burroughs

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more

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10. Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomedis back in print -- by popular demand! In this third an… read more

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11. Desolation Angels

By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson

3.93

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz… read more

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"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet"

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente."

-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

12. The Place of Dead Roads

By: William S. Burroughs

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard … read more

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13. The Subterraneans

By: Jack Kerouac

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road,… read more

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14. Iphigenia in Aulis

By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more

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15. Queer

By: William S. Burroughs

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma - both an unflinching … read more

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16. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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17. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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18. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

By: Tom Wolfe

3.57

Format: 416 pages,

For a start, Kesey's own life with the Merry Pranksters is perhaps the consummate example of a phen… read more

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19. What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James , Paul Theroux , Patricia Crick

4.07

Format: 248 pages,

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feather… read more

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20. Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

By: Hunter S. Thompson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

"California, Labor Day weekend...early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists w… read more

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21. The Town and the City

By: Jack Kerouac

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' - Kerouac on "The Town and the City". … read more

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