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A collection of books by and about the Beat Generation, a literary movement from the mid-20th century. Curated by the editor of Beatdom literary journal. 

Beatdom Books
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Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Protection of All Beings
Beat Poetry
Scientologist!: William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg '72 Through '97
The Beat Interviews
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
Beat Transnationalism
Did Beatniks Kill John F. Kennedy?: Bongo Joe's Requiem for the President
Straight Around Allen: On the Business of Being Allen Ginsberg
The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel
World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism
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Beat Poetry
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Mexico City Blues: [(242 Choruses]
San Francisco Poems
Pictures of the Gone World
A Coney Island of the Mind
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia
The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
On Time: Poems 2005-2014
As Ever: Selected Poems
Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
Loba
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27
Ring of Bone: Collected Poems (Expanded)
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems (Anniversary)
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Women of the Beat Generation
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Ruth Weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art
You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac
The Awakener: A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties
There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera
On Time: Poems 2005-2014
As Ever: Selected Poems
The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel
Haiku
Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions
The Poetry Deal
Loba
Memoirs of a Beatnik
Conversations with Diane Di Prima
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Beat Generation Biographies
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The Voice Is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Kerouac: His Life and Work
Ferlinghetti: A Life
Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac: A Biography
Jack Kerouac: A Biography
I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
World Citizen: Allen Ginsberg as Traveller
Kerouac: A Biography
Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg
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Beat Generation Letter Collections
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Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I: 1945-1959
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997
The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956
The Yage Letters Redux
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Black Beat Writers
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Cranial Guitar
The Ancient Rain, Poems 1956-1978
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness
Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman
Teducation: Selected Poems
Black POW-Wow: Jazz Poems
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader
The System of Dante's Hell
S O S: Poems 1961-2013
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Interviews with Beat Writers
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Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker (Revised)
The Whole Shot: Collected Interviews with Gregory Corso
Burroughs and Friends: Lost Interviews
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews 1958-1996
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Beat Generation Journals
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Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems: 1937-1952
Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
South American Journals: January-July 1960
Iron Curtain Journals: January-May 1965
The Yage Letters Redux
Indian Journals
The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
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Beat Generation Photos and Visual Art
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Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg
The Beat Scene: Photographs by Burt Glinn
Kerouac: Beat Painting
Travels with Ginsberg: A Postcard Book: Allen Ginsberg Photographs
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Beat Generation and Religion
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Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics
The Dharma Bums: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Beatdom: The Religion Issue
A Blue Hand: The Tragicomic, Mind-Altering Odyssey of Allen Ginsberg, a Holy Fool, a Lost Muse, a Dharma Bum, and His Prickly Bride in India
Indian Journals
Kerouac in Ecstasy: Shamanic Expression in the Writings
Some of the Dharma
Jack Kerouac's Buddhism and the American Search for Enlightenment: The Diamond Vow
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Protection of All Beings
Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats
The Beat Face of God: The Beat Generation as Spirit Guides
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation (Riverhead)
Scientologist!: William S. Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
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