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Bukowski Books
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Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.80 — 86,428 ratings — published 1978
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 181 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.93 — 139,562 ratings — published 1971
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,906 ratings — published 1982
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.92 — 76,023 ratings — published 1975
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,811 ratings — published 1983
Pulp (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.67 — 44,246 ratings — published 1994
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,840 ratings — published 1977
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,069 ratings — published 1969
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.81 — 27,660 ratings — published 1989
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,227 ratings — published 1986
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,530 ratings — published 1983
Hot Water Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,235 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,662 ratings — published 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,508 ratings — published 1974
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,291 ratings — published 1999
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,160 ratings — published 1992
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,880 ratings — published 1969
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,709 ratings — published 1999
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,114 ratings — published 1979
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,899 ratings — published 1990
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,770 ratings — published 1972
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,610 ratings — published
The People Look Like Flowers at Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,842 ratings — published 2007
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,628 ratings — published 1996
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,466 ratings — published 1984
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,956 ratings — published 2002
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,348 ratings — published 1972
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,732 ratings — published 1988
The Pleasures of the Damned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,965 ratings — published 2007
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,950 ratings — published 2008
Bring Me Your Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,192 ratings — published 1983
Slouching Toward Nirvana (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,411 ratings — published 2005
On Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,526 ratings — published 2016
Dangling in the Tournefortia (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,539 ratings — published 1981
On Cats (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,174 ratings — published
Shakespeare Never Did This (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,464 ratings — published 1979
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,490 ratings — published 1998
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,168 ratings — published 2011
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,188 ratings — published 1997
Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,035 ratings — published 1993
On Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,396 ratings — published 2014
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,011 ratings — published 2001
Open All Night: New Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 788 ratings — published 2000
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems – Gritty and Inspiring Unpublished Verse by Charles Bukowski (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,401 ratings — published 2003
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems – Rare American Poetry, Hilarious and Ringing with Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.84 — 797 ratings — published 2014
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,198 ratings — published 2016
Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,221 ratings — published 2010
The Continual Condition: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,647 ratings — published
On Drinking (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,770 ratings — published 2019
“Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”
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“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
― Notes of a Dirty Old Man
