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Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 190 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,971 ratings — published 1971
Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.79 — 88,823 ratings — published 1978
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.13 — 123,309 ratings — published 1982
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,055 ratings — published 1975
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.84 — 31,628 ratings — published 1983
Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.67 — 45,614 ratings — published 1994
Love Is a Dog from Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 39,892 ratings — published 1977
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,475 ratings — published 1989
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,611 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 — 19,679 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 — 16,577 ratings — published 1983
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,734 ratings — published 1983
South of No North (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,913 ratings — published 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,766 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 — 7,490 ratings — published 1999
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,377 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 — 6,846 ratings — published 1999
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,004 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 — 5,169 ratings — published 1979
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,092 ratings — published 1972
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,010 ratings — published 1990
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,661 ratings — published 1962
The People Look Like Flowers at Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,929 ratings — published 2007
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,664 ratings — published 1996
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,504 ratings — published 1984
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,383 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 — 2,988 ratings — published 2002
The Pleasures of the Damned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.34 — 7,158 ratings — published 2007
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,766 ratings — published 1988
On Cats (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,390 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 — 2,015 ratings — published 2008
Slouching Toward Nirvana (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,460 ratings — published 2005
Dangling in the Tournefortia (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,555 ratings — published 1981
Bring Me Your Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,225 ratings — published 1983
On Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,659 ratings — published 2016
Shakespeare Never Did This (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,538 ratings — published 1979
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,525 ratings — published 1998
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,191 ratings — published 2011
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,197 ratings — published 1997
Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,037 ratings — published 1993
On Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,475 ratings — published 2014
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,024 ratings — published 2001
Open All Night: New Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.94 — 789 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 — 1,424 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 — 841 ratings — published 2014
Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,366 ratings — published 2016
Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,323 ratings — published 2010
The Continual Condition: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,677 ratings — published
Come On In!: New Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as bukowski)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,565 ratings — published
“darkness falls upon Humanity
and faces become terrible
things
that wanted more than there
was.
all our days are marked with
unexpected
affronts - some
disastrous, others
less so
but the process is
wearing and
continuous.
attrition rules.
most give
way
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be.
and now
as we ready to self-destruct
there is very little left to
kill
which makes the tragedy
less and more
much much
more.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
and faces become terrible
things
that wanted more than there
was.
all our days are marked with
unexpected
affronts - some
disastrous, others
less so
but the process is
wearing and
continuous.
attrition rules.
most give
way
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be.
and now
as we ready to self-destruct
there is very little left to
kill
which makes the tragedy
less and more
much much
more.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“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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