Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)

Novels

1971 – Post Office
1975 – Factotum
1978 – Women
1982 – Ham on Rye
1989 – Hollywood
1994 – Pulp

Poetry collections
Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960)
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) (title taken from Robinson Jeffers poem, "Hellenistics")
Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8-story Window (1968)
A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
Fire Station (1970)
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 (1974)
Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 (1984)
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
People Poems (1991)
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996)
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. (1999)
Open All Night (2000)
The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (2001)
Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951–1993 (2007)
The Continual Condition (2009)
On Cats (2015)
On Love (2016)
Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017)