Jack Kerouac bibliography

The following is a bibliography of Jack Kerouac by category.

Fiction

• The Town and the City (1950; written 1946–1949)
• On the Road (1957; written 1947–1951)
• The Subterraneans, (1958; written 1953)
• The Dharma Bums (1958)
• Doctor Sax (1959; written 1952)
• Maggie Cassidy (1959; written 1953)
• Tristessa, (1960; written 1955–1956)
• Lonesome Traveler, short story collection (1960)
• Book of Dreams (1960; written 1952–1960)
• Big Sur (1962)
• Visions of Gerard (1963; written 1956)
• Desolation Angels (1965)
• Satori in Paris (1965)
• Vanity of Duluoz (1968)
• Visions of Cody (1972; written 1951–1952)

Posthumous fiction

• Pic (1971; written 1951 & 1969)
• The Sea is My Brother (1942; first published in Slovak translation 2010 Bratislava, Slovakia, European Union: Artfórum)
• Orpheus Emerged, novella (1944–1945; published 2002)
• The Haunted Life and Other Writings, Novel (1944; published 2014)
• And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, with William S. Burroughs (1945; published 2008)
• La vie est d'hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (1950-1965; published 2016)

Poetry

• 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, 1940-1956
• Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters, 1957-1969
• Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac (1947–1954)
• Safe In Heaven Dead (Interview fragments)
• 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)

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)

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
1959	Pull My Daisy	Short film.

External links

• Who’s Who: A Guide to Kerouac’s Characters