Jack Kerouac
Bibliography
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Novels:
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The Town and the City (written 1946–1949; published 1950)
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On the Road (written 1951; published 1957)
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The Subterraneans (written 1953; published 1958)
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The Dharma Bums (written November 1957; published 1958)
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Doctor Sax (written June 1952; published 1959)
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Maggie Cassidy (written Jan. 2, 1953; published 1959)
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Tristessa (written summer 1955 and fall 1956; published 1960)
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Lonesome Traveler (1960)
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Book of Dreams (written 1952–1960; published 1960)
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Big Sur (written October 1961; published 1962)
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Visions of Gerard (written January 1956; published 1963)
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Desolation Angels (written fall 1956 and summer 1961; published 1965)
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Satori in Paris (1966)
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Vanity of Duluoz (written 1967; published 1968)
Posthumous fiction:
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The Sea Is My Brother (written 1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)
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The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Novel (written 1944; published 2014)
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Orpheus Emerged, novella (written 1944–1945; published 2000)
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with William S. Burroughs (written 1945; published 2008)
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La vie est d'hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (written 1950-1965; published 2016)
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"The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings" (1946-1968; published 2016)
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Visions of Cody (written 1951–1952; excerpts published December 1959; novel published 1972)
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Pic (written 1951 and 1969, published 1971)
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Poetry:
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Pull My Daisy (late 1940s)
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Mexico City Blues (1955; published 1959)
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The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1956; published 1960) (meditations, koans, poems)
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Scattered Poems (1945–1968; published 1971)
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Book of Sketches (1952–1957)
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Old Angel Midnight (1956; published 1973)
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Trip Trap: Haiku on the Road from SF to NY (1959; published 1973) (with Albert Saijo and Lew Welch)
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Heaven and Other Poems (1957–1962; published 1977)
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San Francisco Blues (1954; published 1983)
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Pomes All Sizes (compiled 1960; published 1992)
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Book of Blues (1954–1961)
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Book of Haikus (published 2003)
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Collected Poems (published 2012, volume 231 in Library of America) ISBN 9781598531947
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Old Angel Midnight (City Lights Publishers, 2016 edition)
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Other Work and Non-fiction:
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Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1936–1943; published 1999)
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Good Blonde & Others (1955; published 1993)
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Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha (1955; published 2008)
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Some of the Dharma (1953–1956; published 1997)
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Beat Generation, play (1957, published 2005)
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Letter, Journals, and Interviews:
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Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn Cassady (1983) (1000 copies Edited By Arthur and Kit Knight) ISBN 0-934660-06-9
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Charters, Ann, ed. (1995). Jack Kerouac : selected letters, 1940–1956. New York: Viking.
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Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
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Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (1947–1954)
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Safe In Heaven Dead (1990) (Interview fragments published by Hanuman Books)
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Conversations with Jack Kerouac (Interviews)
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Empty Phantoms (Interviews)
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Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings
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Door Wide Open (2000) (by Joyce Johnson. Includes letters from Jack Kerouac)
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (2010)
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Charters, Ann, ed. (1995). The portable Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac bibliography