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TitleCopiesReviewsRatingsAverageMedianStd. dev.
Naked Lunch6,731521,2073.574.001.13
Junky2,927216083.754.000.91
Queer98391743.563.750.95
Cities of the Red Night90361623.774.001.00
The Soft Machine83031143.413.501.02
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks37513963.523.500.98
The Western Lands5281953.864.001.14
The Place of Dead Roads528 863.814.000.99
Nova Express6225823.513.500.98
The Wild Boys5252803.383.501.21
The Cat Inside3245803.664.001.03
Exterminator!4251733.764.001.05
The Ticket That Exploded530 663.524.000.86
Interzone3792633.704.000.84
The Yage Letters3582503.533.500.86
My Education: A Book of Dreams3471503.393.001.01
Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader299 454.164.501.01
Ghost of Chance2003413.483.500.96
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs2352343.934.000.84
Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs1831334.004.000.83
The Adding Machine: Selected Essays1801334.094.000.88
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: Volume I: 1945-19592081303.754.000.98
The Burroughs File1421253.884.000.75
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script1512253.283.000.84
William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle1531234.094.000.79
Blade Runner: A Movie113 193.344.000.93
Port of Saints931163.633.750.80
Three-fisted Tales of "Bob": Short Stories in the Subgenius Mythos131 133.774.000.99
Three Novels: The Soft Machine, Nova Express, the Wild Boys131 123.543.500.90
The Herbert Huncke Reader721124.004.000.71
Writing New York (Original Edition)1782113.914.000.76
Electronic Revolution64 103.453.251.01
High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings1261103.403.250.99
Tornado Alley41 83.634.000.89
The Faber Book of Short Gay Fiction190 83.884.000.60
Burroughs live : the collected interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-199748 74.365.000.87
William Burroughs Reader (Picador Books)36 74.004.000.93
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Die Vier Apokalyptischen Reiter24 53.203.000.81
Nova Express, Naked Lunch, Junkie, Auf der Suche nach Yake24 53.804.000.40
The Book of Breeething24 52.803.000.75
Ah Pook Is Here!33 53.704.001.08
Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-195725 54.004.000.63
The Third Mind55 54.304.000.40
Junky - Naked Lunch - Queer (Three Novels in One Volume)55 44.505.000.87
A Burroughs Compendium: Calling the Toads11 43.503.501.12
New American Story21 43.753.500.83
Writers at Work 0382 44.004.000.79
You Got to Burn to Shine: New and Selected Writings (High Risk Books)26 44.755.000.43
Dead Fingers Talk47 44.635.000.65
Ali's Smile, Naked Scientology30 43.503.501.12
Spare Ass Annie and other tales [sound recording]10 34.334.000.47
Die Alten Filme. 13 Stories8 33.334.000.94
Sidetripping27 33.503.500.41
Painting and Guns31 33.673.000.94
Conversations With William S. Burroughs (Literary Conversations Series)32 34.675.000.47
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society82 34.835.000.24
Poems for the Nation: A Collection of Contemporary Political Poems19 33.834.001.03
Minutes To Go8123.253.250.25
Uncommon Quotes3 24.754.750.25
Roosevelt After Inauguration16 24.004.00 
Dead city radio [sound recording]9 24.504.500.50
Beat! : poesi och prosa från beatgenerationen : antologi14 23.003.00 
Call me Burroughs [sound recording]11 25.005.00 
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs8 24.504.500.50
Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-197411 25.005.00 
Seven Souls [sound recording]1 15.005.00 
William Burroughs / John Giorno [sound recording]1 15.005.00 
Evergreen Review No. 203 13.003.00 
Commissioner of Sewers [video recording]2 15.005.00 
They Do Not Always Remember [short story]3112.502.50 
Snack4 14.004.00 
Le scénario du Festin Nu4 14.004.00 
So Who Owns Death TV? (A Black Bag Pamphlet)7 14.004.00 
The Junky's Christmas2 15.005.00 
The Wild Boys; The Soft Machine1 12.002.00 
The Doctor is on the Market [sound recording]3 15.005.00 
Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs1 15.005.00 
The Elvis of Letters (Sound Recording)6 15.005.00 
Nothing Here Now but the Recordings [sound recording]1 15.005.00 
Living With the Animals7 14.004.00 
Cobble stone gardens20 15.005.00 
Naked Lunch [sound recording : abridged]5 14.504.50 
Burroughs. Eine Bild- Biographie3 15.005.00 
The Final Academy Documents [video recording]2 15.005.00 
Strange Amazing and Mysterious Places14 15.005.00 
Early Routines15 15.005.00 
The Final Academy: Event Catalogue1 15.005.00 
Break through in grey room [sound recording]8 15.005.00 
Priest they called him [sound recording]8 15.005.00 
The Retreat Diaries7 14.004.00 
My Kind of Angel: I. M . William Burroughs (Stride Conversation Piece)12 14.004.00 
Dead Aim: The Unseen Art Of William S Burroughs3 12.002.00 
Essais7 13.003.00 
The Best of the Beat Generation (Sound Recording)1     
The cut up method of Brion Gysin1     
Valentine's Day Reading1     
Shotgun paintings; works on wood and paper1     
Jack Kerouac2     
Grand Street 59: Time3     
Art in America Magazine 1996.12 December1     
The Exterminator8     
This is Important #31     
The Paris Review 109 1988 Winter2     
The Anchor Vol. 74, No. 141     
The Anchor Vol. 74, No. 151     
CMJ New Music October, 1993 No. 3 (Sound Recording)1     
Arcade (Number One)1     
The Best of William Burroughs Vol 41     
Naked Lunch (Pre-publication Announcement) Pub. Date: Nov.20, 1962/$6.00/Grove Press, Inc.1     
Johnny 231     
William S. Burroughs / John Giorno (Sound Recording)1     
Ten episodes from Naked lunch2     
The Best of William Burroughs Vol 11     
The Best of William Burroughs Vol 21     
The Best of William Burroughs Vol 31     
William S. Burroughs: The Hombre Invisible1     
William S. Burroughs [art exhibition catalog]3     
William Burroughs : painting1     
Doctor Benway : a passage from The naked lunch1     
Burroughs William Seward1     
Pasto nudo1     
An interview1     
William S. Burroughs Paintings (SC)1     
WHERE NAKED TROUBADOURS SHOOT SNOOTY BABOONS1     
Cough it up : the hairball story [sound recording]2     
Vaudeville Voices (Sound Recording)2     
Millions of images ; The hipster be-bop junkie [sound recording]3     
The instrument of control [sound recording] : William S. Burroughs, in conversation and readings1     
The streets of chance1     
I1     
Queer / The Wild Boys1     
Words of advice : William S. Burroughs on the road [videorecording]1     
Real English tea made here [sound recording]1     
Abandoned artifacts ; On the Nova Lark [sound recording]1     
Rock and roll virus. Burroughs intervista: David Bowie, Patti Smith, Devo, Blondie, Robert Palmer1     
Photos and remembering Jack Kerouac (Heaven chapbook series)1     
Words of advice for young people [sound recording]1     
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales: The Operator's Manual (Sound Recording)2     
Three allusive tracks from Break through in grey room1     
Rat: Subterranean News1     
Words of Advice For Young People1     
Naked Lunch Press Kit1     
Free Thought Burroughs Retrospective1     
Stiletto One: A Ship of Fools1     
William S. Burroughs Galerie K 19901     
White Subway13     
The Final Academy: Statements of a Kind.4     
Mayfair Academy Series More or Less1     
Sinki's Sauna1     
Talk Talk vol. 3 no. 61     
Clause 27 is Proposition 6 is The Whole Tamale1     
Burroughs V Home Briefe an Allen Ginsberg 1953-19573     
William S. Burroughs : December 19 through January 24, 1988 [art exhibition catalog]2     
Cahiers Critique de la Litterature. No. 3/4, 19771     
Death Fiend Guerrillas1     
Entrance to the Museum of Los Species1     
Dead Star5     
Last words, Qui vivre verra, 1 Audio-CD1     
William S. Burroughs' Unforgettable Characters: Lola 'La Chata' & Bernabe Jurado2     
Excerpted from the Letters of William S. Burroughs1     
Doctor Benway1     
Painting [art exhibition catalog]4     
The Seven Deadly Sins8     
William S. Burroughs : Time, Place, Word [exhibition catalog]4     
First thought, best thought [sound recording]7     
Apocalypse3     
Concrete and buckshot : William S. Burroughs paintings, 1987-1996 [art exhibition catalog]10     
Paper Cloud Thick Pages (Art Random)7     
Cows Are Freaky When They Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers9     
Living in Words: Interviews from The Bloomsbury Review, 1981-19885     
La Machine molle - Le Ticket qui explosa - Nova Express4     
Gay Sunshine Interviews53     
Canyon Cinema, Catalog 5, 19811     
Burroughs II/III. Die Wilden Boys Port of Saints Die Stadte Der Roten3     
Burroughs IV Exterminator Die Lietzten Worte Des Dutch Schultz1     
Cahiers Critiques De La Litterature, No. 5, 19781     
Thee Films (video)3     
William Burroughs, George Condo collaborations, 1988-1996: December 6, 1997-January 17, 19982     
Apo-33 Bulletin A Metabolic Regulator2     
Conspiracy charges1     
Roof: An Anthology of Poetry from the Naropa Institute1     
Helnwein Faces5     
A Diamond Hidden in the Mouth of a Corpse (Sound Recording)1     
You're the Guy I Want To Share My Money With (Sound Recording)7     
The Nova Convention (Sound Recording)1     
You're A Hook : The 15 Year Anniversary of Dial-A-Poem (1968-1983) (Sound Recording)1     
William S. Burroughs Live at San Francisco State University 11/4/1974 (Video Recording)1     
Myths 1 / Instructions (Sound Recording)1     
Life is a Killer (Sound Recording)1     
Like a Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming (Sound Recording)1     
Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors (Sound Recording)1     
The Micronotz Collection #1. Recordings from 82-84 (Sound Recording)1     
Songs In The Key of X (Sound Recording)1     
Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip (Sound Recording)1     
Hashisheen. The End of Law (Sound Recording)1     
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (Sound Recording)1     
Cash Cow : The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems 1965-1993 (Sound Recording)1     
Kerouac--Kicks Joy Darkness (Sound Recording)1     
The Last Interview With William S. Burroughs (Sound Recording)1     
Decoder (Sound Recording)2     
Destroy All Rational Thought (Video Recording)1     
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin1     
Pop Smear Magazine #15.01     
Oui. Vol. 6 No. 101     
Oui. Vol. 2 No. 81     
Fruit Cup, No. Zero1     
Heavy Metal. Vol. IV No. 111     
Playboy. Vol. 17 No. 21     
The Marijuana Newsletter. Issue #2.1     
The best of William Burroughs from Giorno Poetry Systems [sound recording]3     
The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets4     
Towers Open Fire (Video Recording)2     
High Times. No. 431     
Steamshovel Press. Issue #171     
High Times. No. 481     
10% File under Burroughs [sound recording]2     

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