Jack Kerouac bibliography

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel.

==Fiction ==
 * The Town and the City (written 1946–1949; published 1950)
 * On the Road (written 1947–1951; published 1957)
 * The Subterraneans (written 1953; published 1958)
 * The Dharma Bums (written November 1957; published 1958)
 * Doctor Sax (written June 1952; published 1959)
 * Maggie Cassidy (written Jan. 2, 1953; published 1959)
 * Tristessa (written summer 1955 and fall 1956; published 1960)
 * Lonesome Traveler, short story collection (1960)
 * Book of Dreams (written 1952–1960; published 1960)
 * Big Sur (written October 1961; published 1962)
 * Visions of Gerard (written January 1956; published 1963)
 * Desolation Angels (written fall 1956 and summer 1961; published 1965)
 * Satori in Paris (1966)
 * Vanity of Duluoz (written 1967; published 1968)
 * Posthumous fiction
 * The Sea Is My Brother (written 1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)
 * The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Novel (written 1944; published 2014)
 * Orpheus Emerged, novella (written 1944–1945; published 2002)
 * And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with William S. Burroughs (written 1945; published 2008)
 * La vie est d'hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (written 1950-1965; published 2016)
 * "The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings" (1946-1968; published 2016)
 * Visions of Cody (written 1951–1952; excerpts published December 1959; novel published 1972)
 * Pic (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971)

Poetry

 * Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
 * Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)
 * The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)
 * Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)
 * Book of Sketches (1952–1957)
 * Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)
 * Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
 * Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)
 * San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1991)
 * Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
 * Book of Blues (1954–1961)
 * Book of Haikus (published 2003)
 * Collected Poems (published 2012, volume 231 in Library of America) ISBN 9781598531947
 * Old Angel Midnight (City Lights Publishers, 2016 edition)

Other work and non-fiction

 * Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1936–1943; published 1999)
 * Good Blonde & Others (1955; published 1993)
 * Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (1955; published 2008)
 * Some of the Dharma (1953–1956; published 1997)
 * Beat Generation, play (1957, published 2005)

Letters, journals, interviews

 * Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn Cassady (1983) (1000 copies Edited By Arthur and Kit Knight) ISBN 0-934660-06-9
 * Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
 * Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (1947–1954)
 * Safe In Heaven Dead (1990) (Interview fragments published by Hanuman Books)
 * Conversations with Jack Kerouac (Interviews)
 * Empty Phantoms (Interviews)
 * Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings
 * Door Wide Open (2000) (by Joyce Johnson. Includes letters from Jack Kerouac)
 * Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010)
 * Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010)

Discography

 * Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) (LP)
 * Blues and Haikus (1959) (LP)
 * Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) (LP)
 * The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) [Box] (Audio CD Collection of 3 LPs)
 * The Jack Kerouac Romnibus(1995) (a multimedia CD-ROM project coupled with a book) (Ralph Lombreglia and Kate Bernhardt)
 * Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999) (Audio CD)
 * Doctor Sax and Great World Snake (2003) (Play Adaptation with Audio CD)