Best of Charles Bukowski

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Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,721 ratings
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Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye 4.14 avg rating — 115,671 ratings
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Factotum
Factotum 3.92 avg rating — 74,338 ratings
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Hollywood
Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 27,013 ratings
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Pulp
Pulp 3.67 avg rating — 42,968 ratings
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Women
Women 3.80 avg rating — 84,220 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 3.91 avg rating — 25,585 ratings
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems
The Last Night of the Earth Poems 4.30 avg rating — 8,021 ratings
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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit 4.15 avg rating — 5,060 ratings
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The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship 3.94 avg rating — 7,106 ratings
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills 4.11 avg rating — 4,847 ratings
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On Cats
On Cats 3.74 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
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Bring Me Your Love
Bring Me Your Love 3.79 avg rating — 2,158 ratings
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Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I (The Wormwood Review, #95: Volume 24, #3)
Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I (The Wormwood Review, #95: Volume 24, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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106 haiku
106 haiku 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader 4.26 avg rating — 4,562 ratings
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Love Is a Dog from Hell
Love Is a Dog from Hell 3.96 avg rating — 37,938 ratings
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Poems: Charles Bukowski
Poems: Charles Bukowski 4.23 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.85 avg rating — 30,141 ratings
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You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense 4.17 avg rating — 18,917 ratings
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The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Bukowski: Charles Bukowski Quotes
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Bukowski: Charles Bukowski Quotes 4.27 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Short Stories of Charles Bukowski
Short Stories of Charles Bukowski 3.91 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Hot Water Music
Hot Water Music 3.87 avg rating — 15,931 ratings
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Charles Bukowski Poetry Collection
Charles Bukowski Poetry Collection 4.29 avg rating — 210 ratings
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 11,332 ratings
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame 4.04 avg rating — 9,344 ratings
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South of No North
South of No North 3.86 avg rating — 10,442 ratings
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The Pleasures of the Damned
The Pleasures of the Damned 4.35 avg rating — 6,862 ratings
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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire 4.27 avg rating — 6,650 ratings
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Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods
Charles Bukowski: Laughing with the Gods 3.64 avg rating — 704 ratings
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.58 avg rating — 7,465 ratings
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The People Look Like Flowers at Last
The People Look Like Flowers at Last 4.09 avg rating — 3,807 ratings
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Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection
Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems 3.91 avg rating — 3,819 ratings
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI 2 - POEMAS
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 2 - POEMAS really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems 4.21 avg rating — 2,922 ratings
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Slouching Toward Nirvana
Slouching Toward Nirvana 3.97 avg rating — 2,388 ratings
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 4.11 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
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Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories 4.14 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984 4.16 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
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On Writing
On Writing 3.82 avg rating — 2,309 ratings
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Shakespeare Never Did This
Shakespeare Never Did This 3.68 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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On Love
On Love 3.80 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
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The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 4.09 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990 3.98 avg rating — 1,882 ratings
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Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet
Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Barfly
Barfly 3.96 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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Essential Bukowski: Poetry
Essential Bukowski: Poetry 4.22 avg rating — 3,054 ratings
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Dangling in the Tournefortia
Dangling in the Tournefortia 4.04 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
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Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970
Screams From the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 4.23 avg rating — 1,033 ratings
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Come On In!: New Poems
Come On In!: New Poems 4.02 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems 4.05 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps 4.08 avg rating — 999 ratings
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns 3.99 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems 4.03 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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The Continual Condition: Poems
The Continual Condition: Poems 3.84 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992
Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992 3.79 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
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There's No Business
There's No Business 3.77 avg rating — 761 ratings
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Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993
Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993 3.79 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Bell Tolls for No One
The Bell Tolls for No One 3.61 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Bukowski on Bukowski
Bukowski on Bukowski 3.88 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Open All Night: New Poems
Open All Night: New Poems 3.94 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Living on Luck
Living on Luck 4.13 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Bukowski In The Bathtub: Recollections Of Charles Bukowski With John Thomas
Bukowski In The Bathtub: Recollections Of Charles Bukowski With John Thomas 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3
Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters 1978-1994, Volume 3 4.12 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Hostage
Hostage 4.23 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967
Beerspit Night and Cursing : the Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli, 1960-1967 3.80 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 373 ratings
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New Poems Book One
New Poems Book One 3.97 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Selected Letters: 1958-1965
Selected Letters: 1958-1965 4.02 avg rating — 155 ratings
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All the Assholes in the World and Mine
All the Assholes in the World and Mine 4.08 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Kaputt in der City
Kaputt in der City 3.57 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Kaputt in Hollywood
Kaputt in Hollywood 3.57 avg rating — 524 ratings
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Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems 3.85 avg rating — 766 ratings
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Svastica
Svastica 3.19 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing 3.78 avg rating — 277 ratings
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At Terror Street and Agony Way
At Terror Street and Agony Way 3.71 avg rating — 150 ratings
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New Poems Book 3
New Poems Book 3 3.63 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994
Selected Letters Volume 4: 1987-1994 4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Poems and Insults
Poems and Insults 3.96 avg rating — 92 ratings
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New Poems Book 2
New Poems Book 2 3.88 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Bukowski Reads His Poetry
Bukowski Reads His Poetry 4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings
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It Catches My Heart in Its Hands
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands 4.25 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Bukowski/Purdy letters: A decade of dialogue, 1964-1974
The Bukowski/Purdy letters: A decade of dialogue, 1964-1974 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Crucifix in a Deathhand
Crucifix in a Deathhand 4.49 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970
Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986
Selected Letters Volume 3: 1971-1986 4.34 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Charles Bukowski Uncensored: From the Run With The Hunted Session
Charles Bukowski Uncensored: From the Run With The Hunted Session 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Bukowski Unleashed
Bukowski Unleashed 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Charles Bukowski, Philp Lamantia, Harold Norse (Penguin Modern Poets, 13)
Charles Bukowski, Philp Lamantia, Harold Norse (Penguin Modern Poets, 13) 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Romans
Romans really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Fire Station
Fire Station 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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On Drinking
On Drinking 3.88 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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The Day It Snowed in L.A.
The Day It Snowed in L.A. 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Life and Death in the Charity Ward
Life and Death in the Charity Ward 3.52 avg rating — 48 ratings
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A Bukowski Sampler
A Bukowski Sampler 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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70 Minutes in Hell
70 Minutes in Hell 3.38 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Flower Fist and Bestial Wail
Flower Fist and Bestial Wail 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Western Avenue: Gedichte 1955 - 1977
Western Avenue: Gedichte 1955 - 1977 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Happy Hour
Happy Hour really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings