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Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,055 ratings — published 1971
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 123,374 ratings — published 1982
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 88,863 ratings — published 1978
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,098 ratings — published 1975
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,150 ratings — published 1939
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,950 ratings — published 1981
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,959 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,916 ratings — published 1973
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,230 ratings — published 1938
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,263 ratings — published 1992
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,638 ratings — published 1983
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.67 — 45,630 ratings — published 1994
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,481 ratings — published 1989
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,918 ratings — published 1977
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 269,509 ratings — published 2005
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,342 ratings — published 1985
The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,321 ratings — published 1985
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.69 — 20,632 ratings — published 1986
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.18 — 664,827 ratings — published 1996
Canada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.53 — 28,452 ratings — published 2012
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,621 ratings — published 1969
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,184 ratings — published 1976
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,097 ratings — published 1972
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 156,625 ratings — published 1992
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,085 ratings — published 1982
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.85 — 57,459 ratings — published 2002
Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,192 ratings — published 1994
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,446 ratings — published 1993
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,795 ratings — published 2001
Hot Water Music: Charles Bukowski's Classic Dirty Realism – Raw Beat Generation Stories of Working-Class Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,586 ratings — published 1983
This Boy's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,090 ratings — published 1989
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,155 ratings — published 2011
Tropic of Capricorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,799 ratings — published 1939
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,822 ratings — published 2008
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,161 ratings — published 1978
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,017 ratings — published 1985
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.55 — 137,242 ratings — published 2015
Ray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,664 ratings — published 1980
Tree of Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,259 ratings — published 2004
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,573 ratings — published 1976
Caribou Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,680 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,955,267 ratings — published 1937
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,368 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.46 — 907,712 ratings — published 2022
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,240 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,813 ratings — published 1953
Fay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,215 ratings — published 2000
Joe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,860 ratings — published 1991
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,168 ratings — published 2006
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,189 ratings — published 1979
“To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you: something else is hurting you—that's why you need pot, or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think. Or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. Or Vietnam or Israel or the fear of spiders.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“There are two types of men when it comes to approaching lone pretty women in bars. The shit type and the don’t-have-the-balls-to-be-a-shit jealous type, and I was the latter and in situations like this the prey becomes the hunter and it’s all just an under-stocked meat market trading in egos, tits and shame.”
― Untethered
― Untethered
