Vote for your favorite Charles Bukowski books
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Based on the votes cast by bukowski.net visitors, we present the definitive and scientifically unimpeachable ranking of Bukowski's readily available works.
4646 people have voted.
Novels
- Ham On Rye
(1362 votes: 29.3%)
- Women
(1138 votes: 24.5%)
- Post Office
(1057 votes: 22.8%)
- Factotum
(697 votes: 15%)
- Pulp
(231 votes: 5%)
- Hollywood
(161 votes: 3.5%)
Poetry
- Love Is A Dog From Hell
(1325 votes: 28.5%)
- The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
(514 votes: 11.1%)
- The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills
(469 votes: 10.1%)
- Burning In Water Drowning In Flame
(445 votes: 9.6%)
- You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
(421 votes: 9.1%)
- Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit
(373 votes: 8%)
- Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
(297 votes: 6.4%)
- War All The Time
(293 votes: 6.3%)
- Septuagenarian Stew
(198 votes: 4.3%)
- The Roominghouse Madrigals
(146 votes: 3.1%)
- Dangling In The Tournefortia
(130 votes: 2.8%)
- Betting On The Muse
(34 votes: 0.7%)
(1 votes: 0%)
Prose
- The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories/Tales Of Ordinary Madness
(1345 votes: 28.9%)
- Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
(1257 votes: 27.1%)
- Hot Water Music
(879 votes: 18.9%)
- South Of No North
(804 votes: 17.3%)
- Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook
(248 votes: 5.3%)
- Absence of the Hero
(112 votes: 2.4%)
(1 votes: 0%)
Other categories
- The Movie: "Barfly"
(1490 votes: 32.1%)
- The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship
(748 votes: 16.1%)
- Shakespeare Never Did This
(599 votes: 12.9%)
- The Pleasures Of The Damned
(518 votes: 11.1%)
- Run With The Hunted
(484 votes: 10.4%)
- Screams From The Balcony
(325 votes: 7%)
- Living On Luck
(194 votes: 4.2%)
- Beerspit Night And Cursing
(157 votes: 3.4%)
- Reach For The Sun
(131 votes: 2.8%)