- New York City Beats
- Howl and Other Poems
- Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict
- Naked Lunch
- On the Road
- The First Third and Other Writings
- Go
- Bomb
- "Let Us Inspect the Lyre"
- "Let Us Inspect the Lyre"
- Huncke's Journal
- "The Entrance of The Grand Gladiola"
- This Kind of Bird Flies Backward
- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
The third of the Beat muses, after Neal Cassady and Herbert Huncke, was Carl Solomon. Solomon grew up in the Bronx and was considered a child prodigy, entering the City College of New York at the age of fifteen. He became a regular at Joan Vollmer's apartment and a favorite of Allen Ginsberg when they both spent time at the Columbia Presbyterian Psychiatric Institute. Upon his release, Solomon took a job as editor for his uncle who owned Ace Books, and he brought out Burroughs' first novel, Junkie. He then offered to publish Kerouac's On the Road, but Kerouac thought the advance too little and the two had a falling out. Ginsberg acknowledged Solomon's influence to the developing Beat aesthetic when he dedicated Howl to him.