What to Read After The Portable Beat Reader
Readers who loved The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Portable Beat Reader 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 The Portable Beat Reader
The Dharma Bums
Howl, and Other Poems
A Coney Island of the Mind
Junky
Memoirs of a Beatnik
Turtle Island
Off the road
Women of the Beat Generation
Minor characters
Gasoline ; &, The vestal lady on Brattle
Go
The portable Jack Kerouac
Big Sur
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Desolation Angels
Memory babe
The subterraneans
Visions of Cody
Lunch Poems (Pocket Poets Series: No. 19)
Lonesome Traveler
Pomes all sizes
The Town and the City
Kerouac
Mexico City blues