Hey dude, I see you listed On the Road as a good book; haven't read it, but I did just read about Kerouac - seems like a real asshole full of self-import! A repressed homosexual racist homophobe anti-Jewish prick, if you believe The Beats: A Graphic History by Paul Buhle & Harvey Pekar.
Anyhow, I heard some other book of his was his best, have you read any others?