Which books by William S. Burroughs can I find here?

This page currently brings together 48 catalogue works, including Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer. This is a selection from our catalogue, not necessarily a complete bibliography. Open a work to compare editions and reviews.

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William S. Burroughs

1914–1997

William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a postmodern author who influenced underground and popular culture and literature. Much of Burroughs's work is experimental and features unreliable narrators. Also noted as semi-autobiographical, his work often drew from his experiences with drug addiction, and featured his various places of residence as settings in much of his work. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique. His writing also engaged frequent mystical, occult, or otherwise magical themes, constant preoccupations in his fiction and real life.

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Which books by William S. Burroughs can I find here?: This page currently brings together 48 catalogue works, including Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer. This is a selection from our catalogue, not necessarily a complete bibliography. Open a work to compare editions and reviews.
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How are these books ordered?: The list uses catalogue reading-popularity data to put widely read works first. That is a discovery aid, not a claim that the first result is the author's best book or a recommended reading order.
Where should I check a particular edition or translation?: Open the book's catalogue page and compare publisher, year, format, language and ISBN. Different editions of the same work can have different translators, introductions and page counts.