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)
  • 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  • La vie est d’hommage, edition of all previously unpublished French writings, includes some non-fiction (1950-1965; published 2016)
  • “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings” (1951-1952; published 2016)