What to Read After Big Sur
Readers who loved Big Sur by Jack Kerouac keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Big Sur is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Big Sur
Ham on Rye
Junky
Hell's Angels
Off the road
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
The subterraneans
Tristessa
Visions of Cody
Lonesome Traveler
Maggie Cassidy
Howl, and Other Poems
And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
The Town and the City
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Factotum
Dr. Sax (Kerouac, Jack)
Satori in Paris
Notes of a dirty old man.
Mexico City blues
Post office
Visions of Gerard
Tales of ordinary madness