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Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 189 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,966 ratings — published 1971
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.79 — 88,264 ratings — published 1978
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.13 — 122,283 ratings — published 1982
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,566 ratings — published 1975
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,409 ratings — published 1983
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.67 — 45,289 ratings — published 1994
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,641 ratings — published 1977
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,301 ratings — published 1989
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,488 ratings — published 1969
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,564 ratings — published 1986
Hot Water Music: Charles Bukowski's Classic Dirty Realism – Raw Beat Generation Stories of Working-Class Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,506 ratings — published 1983
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,691 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,842 ratings — published 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,686 ratings — published 1974
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,439 ratings — published 1999
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,315 ratings — published 1992
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.27 — 6,798 ratings — published 1999
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,954 ratings — published 1969
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,159 ratings — published 1979
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,013 ratings — published 1972
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,988 ratings — published 1990
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,646 ratings — published
The People Look Like Flowers at Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,888 ratings — published 2007
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,655 ratings — published 1996
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,493 ratings — published 1984
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,373 ratings — published 1972
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,982 ratings — published 2002
The Pleasures of the Damned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,114 ratings — published 2007
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,757 ratings — published 1988
On Cats (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,347 ratings — published
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,007 ratings — published 2008
Slouching Toward Nirvana (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,447 ratings — published 2005
Dangling in the Tournefortia (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,551 ratings — published 1981
Bring Me Your Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,220 ratings — published 1983
On Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,635 ratings — published 2016
Shakespeare Never Did This (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,519 ratings — published 1979
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,516 ratings — published 1998
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,188 ratings — published 2011
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,194 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 — 2,457 ratings — published 2014
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,016 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 — 1,416 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 — 832 ratings — published 2014
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,329 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 — 1,300 ratings — published 2010
The Continual Condition: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,666 ratings — published
Come On In!: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,564 ratings — published
“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”
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“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”
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