Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski — 3 titles in the rankings, first published between 1971 and 1994. They average 7.6, below the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note German-born American poet and novelist of the Los Angeles underside: drinking, gambling, bad jobs and worse relationships, written in blunt, funny, unadorned prose. His novels follow his alter ego Henry Chinaski. Post Office, his first and most read, draws on his years delivering and sorting mail; Factotum, which rates just as well, follows Chinaski drifting from one menial job to the next. Pulp, his last novel, is a deliberately shambolic detective parody and rates lower. Much of his work is poetry with too few ratings here.
- Ranked titles
- 3 books
- Average score
- 7.6
- Total ratings
- 633
- First published
- 1971–1994
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Books by Charles Bukowski
Other books by Charles Bukowski
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1969Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- 1969The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
- 1972Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire
- 1972Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
- 1972Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
- 1973Loneliness
- 1973South of No North
- 1977Love Is a Dog from Hell
- 1978Women
- 1979Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
- 1982Ham on Rye
- 1983Hot Water Music
- 1983Tales of Ordinary Madness
- 1983The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
- 1986You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense
- 1989Hollywood
- 1990Displaced
- 1990Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems
- 1996Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
- 1997The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
- 1999Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters
- 2007The People Look Like Flowers at Last
- 2008Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays
- 2009The Continual Condition
- 2011More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
- Burning in water drowning in flame
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