Principal Works
Poetry
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail 1960
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players 1962
Run with the Hunted 1962
Poems and Drawings 1962
It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New and Selected Poems, 1955–1963 1963
Grip the Walls 1964
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard 1965
Crucifix in a Deathhand: New Poems, 1963–1965 1965
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts 1965
The Genius of the Crowd 1966
True Story 1966
On Going Out to Get the Mail 1966
To Kiss the Worms Goodnight 1966
The Girls 1966
All the Assholes in the World and Mine 1966
The Flower Lover 1966
Night's Work 1966
2 by Bukowski 1967
The Curtains are Waving 1967
At Terror Street and Agony Way 1968
Poems Written before Jumping out of an 8-Story Window 1968
If We Take…. 1969
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses over the Hills 1969
Another Academy 1970
Fire Station 1970
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 1972
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems 1973
While the Music Played 1973
Love Poems to Marina 1973
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 1974
Africa, Paris, Greece 1975
Weather Report 1975
Winter 1975
Tough Company 1976
Scarlet 1976
Maybe Tomorrow 1977
Love Is a Dog from Hell: Poems 1974–1977 1977
Art 1977
What They Want 1977
We'll Take Them 1978
Legs, Hips, and Behind 1979
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit 1979
A Love Poem 1979
Dangling in the Tournefortia 1981
The Last Generation 1982
Sparks 1983
One for the Old Boy 1984
War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 1984
Under the Influence 1984
Alone in a Time of Armies 1985
You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense 1986
Gold in Your Eye 1986
The Day in Snowed in L.A. 1986
Luck 1987
The Movie Critics 1988
Beauti-ful & Other Long Poems 1988
The Rooming House Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946–1966 1988
Septuagenarian Stew 1990
In the Morning and At Night and In Between 1991
In the Shadow of the Rose 1991
The Last Night of the Earth Poems 1992
Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader 1993
Confession of a Coward 1995
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories 1996
Other Major Works
"Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip" (short story) 1944
A Bukowski Sampler (short stories, poetry, essays) 1969
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (short stories) 1969
Post Office (novel) 1971
Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (short stories) 1972
2 Letters from Charles Bukowski (letters) 1972
South of No North: Stories of the Buried Life (short stories) 1973
Life and Death in the Charity Ward (short stories) 1974
Factorum (novel) 1975
Women (novel) 1978
You Kissed Lilly (short stories) 1978
Ham on Rye (novel) 1982
Horsemeat (novel) 1982
Bring Me Your Love (short stories) 1983
Hot Water Music (short stories) 1983
The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue 1964–1974 [with Al Purdy] (letters) 1983
Barfly (novel) 1984
There's No Business (short stories) 1984
The Movie "BarFly" (screenplay) 1987
Hollywood (novel) 1989
Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960's-1970's (letters) 1993
Pulp 1994
Living on Luck: Selected Letters 1960 's-1970 's, Volume 2 (letters) 1995
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