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First publish date: 1995
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Jack Kerouac
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On The Road by 6476883|Jack Kerouac book cover

📘 On The Road
 by Jack Kerouac

A nonfiction novel chronicling the adventures of a group of friends on their cross-country journey of discovery, featuring characters like Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as real-life friends Neal Casady.

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📘 Desolation angels
 by Jack Kerouac

Desolation Angels is a semi-autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac, a Beat Generation author, set in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. It reflects the protagonist's increasing disenchantment with Buddhist philosophy.

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📘 The Dharma Bums
 by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s semi‑autobiographical *The Dharma Bums* follows narrator Ray Smith and poet Japhy Ryder as they explore the American West, mountaineering and hitchhiking while seeking Buddhist insight, reflecting Kerouac’s dual urban‑nature life.

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Visions of Cody by 6476883|Jack Kerouac book cover

📘 Visions of Cody
 by Jack Kerouac

A poetic reflection on the life of Jack Kerouac’s character, Dean Moriarty, transformed into the mysterious Cody Pomeray. A collection of New York sketches from the 1950s, intimate portraits of Kerouac’s close friends, and recollections of their drug and alcohol-addicted conversations, it’s Kerouac’s most ambitious work and a companion to his celebrated 'On the Road'.

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📘 The Portable Beat Reader
 by Ann Charters


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📘 Jack Kerouac
 by Barry Miles


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Book of Dreams by 6476883|Jack Kerouac book cover

📘 Book of Dreams
 by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac's dream journal captures the Beat Generation author's creative mind.

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📘 Angelheaded hipster
 by Steve Turner

Steve Turner's *Angelheaded Hipster* explores Jack Kerouac’s life, his role in the Beat Generation, and the lasting influence of his spontaneous prose and spiritual insights on twentieth‑century culture.

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📘 Henry James
 by Henry James

Henry James’s annotated correspondence reveals the mind of a master novelist, offering insights into his works, literary craft, and views on sex, politics, and friendship through letters to writers, artists, and leaders.

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📘 Naked angels
 by John Tytell


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Orpheus Emerged by 6476883|Jack Kerouac book cover

📘 Orpheus Emerged
 by Jack Kerouac


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📘 Jack Kerouac
 by Steve Turner

An illustrated biography draws on interviews with Kerouac's friends, conversations with Allen Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs, and the body of Kerouac scholarship to provide a definitive portrait of of the iconoclastic rebel.

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