Best Books by Bukowski and the Beats

1.
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
2.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text 3.46 avg rating — 96,907 ratings
3.
The Cat Inside
The Cat Inside 3.72 avg rating — 3,579 ratings
4.
A Coney Island of the Mind
A Coney Island of the Mind 4.16 avg rating — 12,187 ratings
5.
On the Road
On the Road 3.61 avg rating — 438,565 ratings
6.
Dancing with the Lights Out
Dancing with the Lights Out it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
6.
The Essential Bukowski: Poetry
The Essential Bukowski: Poetry 4.22 avg rating — 3,054 ratings
8.
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
8.
Street Poems
Street Poems it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
10.
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems 3.91 avg rating — 3,820 ratings
10.
Junction City
Junction City it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
12.
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966 4.09 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
13.
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 4.11 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
14.
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
15.
Women
Women 3.80 avg rating — 84,232 ratings
16.
Ham on Rye
Ham on Rye 4.14 avg rating — 115,686 ratings
17.
Factotum
Factotum 3.92 avg rating — 74,348 ratings
18.
Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,744 ratings
19.
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Love Is a Dog from Hell 3.96 avg rating — 37,941 ratings
20.
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
21.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 11,335 ratings
22.
Hot Water Music
Hot Water Music 3.87 avg rating — 15,934 ratings
23.
Hollywood
Hollywood 3.81 avg rating — 27,020 ratings
24.
Bukowski and the Beats
Bukowski and the Beats 3.70 avg rating — 113 ratings
25.
Charles Bukowski a Sure Bet
Charles Bukowski a Sure Bet 4.05 avg rating — 100 ratings
26.
Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women
Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
27.
Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row
Drinking with Bukowski: Recollections of the Poet Laureate of Skid Row 3.65 avg rating — 68 ratings
28.
Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski
Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski 3.91 avg rating — 488 ratings
29.
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame 4.04 avg rating — 9,344 ratings
30.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 3.91 avg rating — 25,590 ratings
31.
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader
Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader 4.26 avg rating — 4,562 ratings
32.
Howl and Other Poems
Howl and Other Poems 4.13 avg rating — 117,402 ratings
33.
Kaddish and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems 4.19 avg rating — 9,458 ratings
34.
Junky
Junky 3.85 avg rating — 69,897 ratings
35.
William S. Burroughs - A Life
William S. Burroughs - A Life 4.20 avg rating — 562 ratings
36.
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1)
Cities of the Red Night (The Red Night Trilogy, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 5,483 ratings
37.
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2)
Nova Express (The Nova Trilogy, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 3,307 ratings
38.
Memoirs of a Beatnik
Memoirs of a Beatnik 3.68 avg rating — 3,563 ratings
39.
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8)
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, #8) 3.99 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
40.
Pictures of the Gone World
Pictures of the Gone World 4.10 avg rating — 1,516 ratings
41.
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 4.17 avg rating — 866 ratings
42.
Starting from San Francisco
Starting from San Francisco 3.84 avg rating — 454 ratings
43.
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning 4.05 avg rating — 264 ratings
44.
Factory
Factory
by: Antler
4.50 avg rating — 34 ratings
45.
Go
Go 3.80 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
46.
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats 3.89 avg rating — 514 ratings
47.
Tristessa
Tristessa 3.65 avg rating — 6,750 ratings
48.
The Town and the City
The Town and the City 3.92 avg rating — 3,875 ratings
49.
Desolation Angels
Desolation Angels 3.93 avg rating — 12,117 ratings
50.
The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles
The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
51.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
52.
Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones 3.80 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
53.
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
54.
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings
55.
Down and Out
Down and Out 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
56.
The Case Of The Missing Blue Volkswagen
The Case Of The Missing Blue Volkswagen 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
57.
The Firebird Poems
The Firebird Poems 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
58.
The Death Of Jean-Paul Sartre & Other Poems
The Death Of Jean-Paul Sartre & Other Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
59.
Candy Bars : Selected Stories
Candy Bars : Selected Stories 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
60.
Collected Shorter Poems
Collected Shorter Poems 4.33 avg rating — 133 ratings
61.
Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
62.
Turtle Island
Turtle Island 4.09 avg rating — 4,514 ratings
63.
After Lorca
After Lorca 4.34 avg rating — 220 ratings
64.
How I Became Hettie Jones
How I Became Hettie Jones 4.06 avg rating — 631 ratings
65.
Barfly
Barfly 3.96 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
66.
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
67.
Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski
Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski 3.76 avg rating — 55 ratings
68.
The Buk Book: Musings on Charles Bukowski
The Buk Book: Musings on Charles Bukowski 3.55 avg rating — 109 ratings
69.
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems
Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems 4.03 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
70.
Dangling in the Tournefortia
Dangling in the Tournefortia 4.04 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
71.
Slouching Toward Nirvana
Slouching Toward Nirvana 3.98 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
72.
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories 4.14 avg rating — 2,585 ratings
73.
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
74.
The Pleasures of the Damned
The Pleasures of the Damned 4.35 avg rating — 6,862 ratings
75.
South of No North
South of No North 3.86 avg rating — 10,442 ratings
76.
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984 4.16 avg rating — 2,441 ratings
77.
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski 4.05 avg rating — 731 ratings
78.
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps 4.08 avg rating — 999 ratings
79.
Beat angels
Beat angels really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
80.
Henry Miller and My Big Sur Days: Vignettes from Memory
Henry Miller and My Big Sur Days: Vignettes from Memory 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
81.
Mephistos and Other Poems
Mephistos and Other Poems 4.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
82.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.01 avg rating — 198 ratings
83.
The Portable Beat Reader
The Portable Beat Reader 4.16 avg rating — 7,905 ratings
84.
This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris
This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris 3.77 avg rating — 140 ratings
85.
Charles Bukowski:A Critical And Bibliographical Study.
Charles Bukowski:A Critical And Bibliographical Study.
by: Hugh Fox
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
86.
Reality Sandwiches
Reality Sandwiches 3.95 avg rating — 2,146 ratings
87.
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
The Journal of Albion Moonlight 4.22 avg rating — 631 ratings
88.
Poems of Humor & Protest (The Pocket Poets Series, Number Three)
Poems of Humor & Protest (The Pocket Poets Series, Number Three) 4.38 avg rating — 61 ratings
89.
The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution
The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
90.
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns 3.99 avg rating — 1,133 ratings
91.
Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life
Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life 3.91 avg rating — 680 ratings
92.
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness 3.85 avg rating — 30,144 ratings
93.
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
94.
Spinning Off Bukowski
Spinning Off Bukowski 3.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
95.
The Bell Tolls for No One
The Bell Tolls for No One 3.61 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
96.
The Last Night of the Earth Poems
The Last Night of the Earth Poems 4.30 avg rating — 8,022 ratings
97.
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 — 6,649 ratings
98.
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 3.92 avg rating — 610 ratings
99.
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg 3.93 avg rating — 2,518 ratings
100.
Wormwood Review no. 133
Wormwood Review no. 133 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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