/lit/ - Literature

I'm reading a lot of stuff right now but right now I'm focusing on a biography of Aleister Crowley, The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall, and Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts on audiobook.
>>21988440
Fantastic book.
>>21989135
May I suggest The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac? Thematically it's very similar and I read it around the same time I read Siddhartha. You really should read On the Road as a prerequisite however.

I wish I had a father like Kerouac.

>>20197351
God I wish I were a girl so that he would be into me.

>>19343772
Yeah

Daddy.

He sexy.

I used to have a pretty big obsession with Kerouac in my early twenties and lately I've been hankering again to read him. I've read On the Road (many times), The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, and Sartori in Paris. What should I read next by him? Big Sur makes sense but I get the sense it's pretty boring and is mostly his thoughts and not much of a story, isn't it? Anyways I'm probably going to read OtR & Dharma Bums again but I want to read something by him that I haven't before. Any recs? I also haven't read much by the other Beats so I'm open to reading Burroughs and whoever.
By the way...what is "Beat"?