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Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,108 ratings — published 1971
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 122,442 ratings — published 1982
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.79 — 88,354 ratings — published 1978
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,638 ratings — published 1975
Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 40,794 ratings — published 1939
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,309 ratings — published 1981
Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,615 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,851 ratings — published 1973
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,111 ratings — published 1938
Jesus’ Son (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,850 ratings — published 1992
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,437 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 — 45,340 ratings — published 1994
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,327 ratings — published 1989
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,674 ratings — published 1977
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.17 — 265,753 ratings — published 2005
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,169 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 — 8,250 ratings — published 1985
The Sportswriter (Frank Bascombe, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.69 — 20,540 ratings — published 1986
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,132 ratings — published 1996
Canada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.53 — 28,383 ratings — published 2012
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,502 ratings — published 1969
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,061 ratings — published 1976
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,027 ratings — published 1972
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 154,625 ratings — published 1992
Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,041 ratings — published 1982
Train Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,708 ratings — published 2002
Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,152 ratings — published 1994
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 185,427 ratings — published 1993
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,157 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 — 16,516 ratings — published 1983
This Boy's Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.97 — 30,997 ratings — published 1989
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,588 ratings — published 2011
Tropic of Capricorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.81 — 21,696 ratings — published 1939
Knockemstiff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,733 ratings — published 2008
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,833 ratings — published 1978
1933 Was a Bad Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,004 ratings — published 1985
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.55 — 136,000 ratings — published 2015
Ray (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,652 ratings — published 1980
Tree of Smoke (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.61 — 16,081 ratings — published 2004
A Feast of Snakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,505 ratings — published 1976
Caribou Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,672 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,932,455 ratings — published 1937
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,334 ratings — published 2016
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.46 — 887,271 ratings — published 2022
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.13 — 120,838 ratings — published 1956
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,331 ratings — published 1953
Fay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,200 ratings — published 2000
Joe (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,835 ratings — published 1991
Twilight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,149 ratings — published 2006
Suttree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dirty-realism)
avg rating 4.21 — 29,758 ratings — published 1979
“Salvage what you can so you don’t end up like me; bitter and hateful but disguising it with a smile, and then hide it away under the cover of wild nights and very early mornings.”
― Inappropriate
― Inappropriate
“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
