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Charles Bukowski Books In Chronological Order

Charles Bukowski


Books in Chronological Order


We at Apple Green Books love Charles Bukowski - Beat poet and novelist who captures the essence of the beat generation in Los Angeles. 

Hopefully this list will be useful for any Charles Bukowski fans who want to read some or all of his works. 


Novels


Post Office (1971)

Factotum (1975)

Women (1978)

Ham on Rye (1982)

Hollywood (1989)

Pulp (1994)


Poetry Collections & Short Story Collections & Non Fiction


Flower, Fist and Bestial Wall (1960)

Longshot Poems for Broke Players (1962)
Run with the Hunted (1962)
It Catches My Heart in Its Hand (1963)
Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
All the Assholes in the World and Mine(1966)
The Curtains Are Waving... (1967)
Poems Written Before Jumping out of an 8 Story Window (1968)
At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
Fire Station (1970)
Another Academy (1970)
Anthology of LA Poets (1972)
Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck (1972)
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
South of No North (1973)
Burning in Water Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (1974)
Scarlet (1976)
Love is a Dog from Hell (1977)
You Kissed Lilly (1978)
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979) 
Shakespeare Never Did This (1979)
Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
Hot Water Music (1983)
Bring Me Your Love (1983)
There's No Business (1984)
War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984 (1984)
You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (1986)
The Movie Barfly (1987)
A Visitor Complains of My Disenfranchise (1987)
Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (1988)
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories and Poems (1990)
People Poems (1991)
Bluebird (1991)
In the Shadow of the Rose (1991)
Three Poems (1992)
Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader (1993)
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Leters 1960-1970 (1993)
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