Author guide
Jack Kerouac
Kerouac pioneered spontaneous prose and wrote fiction and poetry shaped by Catholic spirituality, jazz, Buddhism, travel, poverty, and drugs. He became an underground celebrity and helped define the literary and cultural reach of the Beat Generation.
Read in order
Books by series
- 1
The Town and the CityAmazon ↗novel · 1950
- 2
On the RoadAmazon ↗novel · 1957
- 3
The Dharma BumsAmazon ↗novel · 1958
- 4 The SubterraneansAmazon ↗
novella · 1958
- 5
Doctor SaxAmazon ↗novel · 1959
- 6
Visions of CodyAmazon ↗novel · 1959
- 7 Lonesome TravelerAmazon ↗
collection · 1960
- 8 TristessaAmazon ↗
novella · 1960
- 9
Big SurAmazon ↗novel · 1962
- 10 Visions of GerardAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1963
- 11
Satori in ParisAmazon ↗novel · 1966
- 12
Vanity of DuluozAmazon ↗novel · 1967
- 13 Atop an UnderwoodAmazon ↗
collection · 1999
- 14
Desolation AngelsAmazon ↗novel
collection series · unknown
LOA
collection series · unknown
Kerouac Selected Letters
- 1 Selected LettersAmazon ↗
Book 1 · collection · 1995
Outside the series
Standalone and other books
-
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their TanksAmazon ↗novel · 1945
- Mexico City BluesAmazon ↗
poem · 1959
- Book of DreamsAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1960
- Book of HaikusAmazon ↗
collection · 2003
- Book of BluesAmazon ↗
collection · 1995
- Scattered PoemsAmazon ↗
collection · 1971
- Old Angel MidnightAmazon ↗
poem · 1973
- Heaven and Other PoemsAmazon ↗
collection · 1977
- Jack Kerouac and Allen GinsbergAmazon ↗
collection · 2010
- Door Wide OpenAmazon ↗
collection · 2000
- The Portable Jack KerouacAmazon ↗
omnibus · 1995
- Wake UpAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2008
-
The Sea Is My BrotherAmazon ↗novel · 2011
- The Haunted LifeAmazon ↗
collection · 2014
- The Buddhist YearsAmazon ↗
collection · 2025
- Self-PortraitAmazon ↗
collection · 2023
- The Poetry of Jack KerouacAmazon ↗
omnibus · 2017