On the Road
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The Vibe
Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty drive back and forth across America in a blur of jazz, sex, drugs, and the desperate search for meaning. Kerouac wrote it on a continuous scroll in three weeks, and it reads like that — breathless, beautiful, and ultimately heartbreaking. The novel that defined the Beat Generation and made "road trip" a genre.