Charles Bukowski

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    February 2019
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Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • post office

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    "It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover...

  • Women

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterLow-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After ...

  • Bring Me Your Love

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterCharles Bukowski's acerbic wit shines through in this dar...

  • Roominghouse Madrigals

  • Pulp

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterOpening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pur...

  • Run With the Hunted

    The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this countercultur...

  • The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterA book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Ro...

  • Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

  • Charles Bukowski Uncensored

    From his early hardscrabble life to his literary success, Charles Bukowski's unique personality came alive through his work. In 1993, the year before he died, this counterculture icon recorded and published selections from his classic Run With the...



  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

    These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France...

  • Notes of a Dirty Old Man

    A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book.

    "People come to my ...

  • Tales of Ordinary Madness

    With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground -- people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legen...

  • Hollywood

    From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

    Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-aut...

  • Hot Water Music

    With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and gro...

  • Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterMockingbird Wish Me Luck captures glimpses of Charles Bukowski's view on life throug...

  • There's No Business

    Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in L...

  • You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

    Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

    ...

  • What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterWhat Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous col...

  • South of No North

    South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society....



  • Factotum

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterOne of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follo...

  • Ham on Rye

    In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddle...

  • Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook

    Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime. Portions is a substantial selection of the...

  • Betting on the Muse

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterBetting on the Muse is a combination of hilarious poetry and stories. Charles Bukows...

  • The Movie: "Barfly"

    The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski....

  • Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters, 1960-1970

    Screams from the Balcony is a collection of letters chronicling Charles Bukowski's life as he tries to get published and work at a postal office, all while drinking and gambling....

  • Septuagenarian Stew

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles." -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterSeptuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Buk...

  • Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, 1978-1994

    Literary Criticism. Reach for the Sun is the third volume of Bukowski's letters from Black Sparrow Press, selected by Seamus Cooney....

  • Absence of the Hero

    "Everyone''s favorite Dirty Old Man returns with a new volume of uncollected work. Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous figures of twentieth-century American literature, was so prolific that many significant pieces never found the...

  • Shakespeare Never Did This

    An account of Charles Bukowski's 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski, holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins. En route to his birthplace in Andernach, Germany, he is trailed by celebrity-hunters...



  • More Notes of a Dirty Old Man

    "He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house -- read 'em and weep." -- Tom Waits

    After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski ...

  • The Most Beautiful Woman in Town

    These mad immortal stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France...

  • The Bell Tolls for No One

    From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to ...

  • On Drinking

    The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer’s be...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Bukowski has published 33 books.

Charles Bukowski does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, On Drinking, was published in February 2019.

The first book by Charles Bukowski, post office, was published in January 1971.

No. Charles Bukowski does not write books in series.
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