Jack Kerouac

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1957
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • On the Road

    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
     
    September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversa...

  • The Dharma Bums

    Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.” -- ...

  • Satori in Paris

    From the renowned Beat writer, Kerouac’s colorful and meandering search for his family history, now reissued following his centenary celebrationSatori in Paris is the semi-autobiographical tale of Jack Kerouac’s trip to France in search of his he...

  • Heaven and Other Poems

  • Book of Dreams

  • Pic

    From one of the most famous of the Beat writers, Kerouac’s final novel of brotherhood and travel, now reissued in a standalone edition following his centenary celebrationPic -- full name Pictorial Review Jackson -- is a ten-year-old Black boy livin...

  • Visions of Gerard

    The first novella in Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend, detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother“The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kerouac’s fictionalized autobiography.” -- Ann ...

  • Doctor Sax

    From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac’s centenary celebrationA haunting novel of deeply felt ad...

  • Tristessa

    Based on Jack Kerouac’s real-life love affair in Mexico City, this novel follows a man’s doomed relationship with a woman as her life spirals out of control. “[Kerouac] loves language, and he obviously has a profound feeling for the human race....



  • Maggie Cassidy

    Maggie Cassidy -- Jack Kerouac's classic Beat novel updated with new material including: extensive annotations and endnotes, an original Afterword by author Tom Graves, a bibliography of Kerouac's literary works, a guide for further study on works ...

  • Visions of Cody

    “To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac’s wildest writings.” -- The New York Times Book Review “The centerpiece of all [Kerouac’s] novels.” -...

  • Vanity of Duluoz

    Written from the vantage point of the psychedelic sixties, this fascinating, “loud-mouthed novel” (The Guardian) paints a portrait of young Kerouac, dedicated and disciplined in his determination to be an important American writer. “The capston...

  • Book of Blues

    Best known for his "Legend of Duluoz" novels, including On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is also an important poet. In these eight extended poems, Kerouac writes from the heart of experience in the music of language, employing the same i...

  • Desolation Angels

    A young man searches for meaning, creates art, and grapples with fame in this semiautobiographical Beat Generation classic by the author of On the Road. This urgently paced yet deeply introspective novel closely tracks Jack Kerouac’s own life. Jack...

  • San Francisco Blues

  • Some of the Dharma

    Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume for understanding Kerouac and the spiritual underpinnings of his work.

    While his future masterpiece, On the Road, languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kero...

  • Atop an Underwood

    An “indispensable” (Chicago Tribune) collection of more than sixty previously unpublished works from Jack Kerouac, ranging from stories and poems to plays and excerpts of novels “Fascinating . . . provides a poignant picture of a life brimming ...

  • Lonesome Traveler

    From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac’s unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebrationIn his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he ...

  • Good Blonde and Others

    In these uncollected writings Jack Kerouac has left us a portrait of himself in his life. He hitches a ride to San Francisco from Southern California with a beautiful blonde, goes on the road with photographer Robert Frank, rides a bus through the No...



  • The Subterraneans

    Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. Centering around the tempestuous breakup...

  • Big Sur

    Unmistakably autobiographical, this book is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. Now approaching middle-age, Jack Duluoz retreats to California to esca...

  • Orpheus Emerged

    Recently discovered by the estate of Jack Kerouac, Orpheus Emerged chronicles the passions, conflicts, and dreams of a group of bohemians searching for truth while studying at a university. Written shortly after the iconic Beat author met Allen Ginsb...

  • Doctor Sax and the Great World Snake

  • Beat Generation

    This is Jack Kerouac's great lost work, a play written in 1957, the same year that On the Road was first published. Beat Generation is about tension, about friendship, and about karma " what it is and how you get it. It begins in New York's Bowery,...

  • The Portable Jack Kerouac

    The definitive Kerouac collection-now in Penguin Classics To coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of "On the Road," Penguin Classics republishes this landmark collection. "The Portable Jack Kerouac" made clear the ambition and accomplishme...

  • Road Novels, 1957-1960

    The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation upon its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, the clearest and mo...

  • The Electrocution Of Block 38383939383

    In 1954, Jack Kerouac announced that he was writing the world’s first Beat Science Fiction novel; what resulted the following year was actually a short story of around 10,000 words entitled cityCityCITY, a futurist dystopian tale of a mega-city pla...

  • The Sea Is My Brother

    In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Now, nearly seventy years la...

  • Study guide On the road



  • The Haunted Life: And Other Writings

    1944 was a troubled and momentous year for Jack Kerouac. In March, his close friend and literary confidant, Sebastian Sampas, lost his life on the Anzio beachhead while serving as a US Army medic. That spring -- still reeling with grief over Sebastia...

  • The Unknown Kerouac

    In On the Road and other iconic works, Jack Kerouaccreated a quintessentially American voice and a revolutionaryprose style. This remarkable gathering ofpreviously unpublished writings reveals as neverbefore the extraordinary literary journey that ...

  • Dr. Sax

    From the most famous of the Beat writers, the semi-autobiographical novel of growing up between dreams and nightmares in early twentieth century Massachusetts, now reissued following Kerouac’s centenary celebrationA haunting novel of deeply fel...

  • The Buddhist Years

    A brand new volume of previously unpublished writings from the archives reflecting Jack Kerouac’s Buddhist thinkingFrom a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism ga...

  • The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

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    The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac is a contemplative and poetic exploration of spirituality, existence, and transcendence. This work reflects Kerouac's deep engagement with Buddhist philosophy, particularly Zen, while maintaining h...

  • The Town and the City

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    A quintessential American family is pulled apart by war and the rapidly changing tides of society in Jack Kerouac’s captivating first novel Published seven years before his iconic On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s debut novel follows the experiences of...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jack Kerouac has published 35 books.

The next book by Jack Kerouac, The Buddhist Years, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Jack Kerouac, On the Road, was published in September 1957.

No. Jack Kerouac does not write books in series.
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