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Books Index

Title Publication Date Publisher Genre Internal ID Major
2 by Bukowski 7/4/1967 Black Sparrow Press poetry 1 0
A Bukowski Sampler 15/7/1969 Quixote Press both 2 0
A Love Poem 1/1/1979 Black Sparrow Press poetry 3 0
A New War 1/1/1997 Black Sparrow Press poetry 4 0
A Signature of Charles Bukowski 1/12/1960 Targets Magazine poetry 5 0
A Visitor Complains Of My Disenfranchise 1/12/1987 Illuminati poetry 6 0
Absence of the Hero 1/4/2010 City Lights Books prose 117 1
All The Assholes In The World and Mine 1/9/1966 Open Skull Press prose 8 1
Alone in a Time of Armies 1/1/1985 Black Sparrow Press poetry 9 0
Art 1/1/1977 Black Sparrow Press poetry 10 0
At Terror Street and Agony Way 15/5/1968 Black Sparrow Press poetry 11 1
Atomic Scribblings From A Maniac Age 1/12/1965 Border Press poetry 119 0
Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 1, 1959-1974 1/6/2011 Prague Collective poetry 121 1
Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 2, 1975-1977 1/11/2014 Prague Collective poetry 122 1
Back to the Machinegun, Manuscripts Volume 3, 1978-1980 1/12/2014 Prague Collective poetry 123 1
Barfly 1/12/1984 Paget Press neither 128 1
Beauti-ful 1/6/1988 Wormwood Review poetry 12 0
Beerspit Night And Cursing 1/5/2001 Black Sparrow Press neither 133 1
Betting on the Muse 13/5/1996 Black Sparrow Press both 13 1
Between The Earthquake, The Volcano And The Leopard 1/1/1994 Black Sparrow Press poetry 14 0
Blow 6 1/12/1984 Grey Whale Press poetry 15 0
Bone Palace Ballet 25/3/1997 Black Sparrow Press poetry 16 1
Bring Me Your Love 8/7/1983 Black Sparrow Press prose 17 1
Bukowski Photographs 1977-1987 1/12/1987 Bukskin Press neither 18 0
Bukowski Photographs 1977-1991 1/12/1993 Bukskin Press neither 19 0
Burning in Water Drowning in Flame 21/6/1974 Black Sparrow Press poetry 20 1
Charles Bukowski and Alpha Beat Press 1/12/1994 Alpha Beat Press poetry 21 0
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard 15/8/1965 Literary Times/Cyfoeth Press poetry 22 1
Come On In! 3/1/2006 Ecco poetry 23 1
Confession of a Coward 1/1/1995 Black Sparrow Press prose 24 0
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts 1/8/1965 Mimeo Press/Ole prose 25 1
Cornered 1/10/1985 Burn Again Press poetry 26 0
Crucifix in a Deathhand 1/4/1965 loujon Press poetry 27 1
Dangling in the Tournefortia 25/9/1981 Black Sparrow Press poetry 28 1
Darkness and Ice 1/11/1990 Burn Again Press poetry 29 0
Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness 1/4/1972 City Lights Books prose 30 1
Essential Bukowski: Poetry 25/10/2016 Ecco poetry 136 1
Factotum 18/12/1975 Black Sparrow Press prose 31 1
Fire Station 1/3/1970 Capricorn Press poetry 32 1
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail 1/10/1960 Hearse Press poetry 33 1
Going Modern 1/10/1984 Oro Madre poetry 34 0
Gold in Your Eye 1/1/1986 Black Sparrow Press poetry 35 0
Ham On Rye 28/7/1982 Black Sparrow Press prose 37 1
Heat Wave 1/10/1995 Black Sparrow Press poetry 38 0
Hollywood 25/4/1989 Black Sparrow Press prose 39 1
Horsemeat 27/12/1982 Black Sparrow Press prose 40 0
Horses Don't Bet on People and Neither Do I 1/8/1984 Wormwood Review poetry 41 0
Hot Water Music 28/9/1983 Black Sparrow Press prose 42 1
If We Take 1/1/1969 Black Sparrow Press poetry 43 0
If You Let Them Kill You, They Will 1/1/1989 Black Sparrow Press poetry 44 0
In the Morning and at Night and In Between 1/1/1991 Black Sparrow Press poetry 45 0
In the Shadow of the Rose 25/7/1991 Black Sparrow Press poetry 46 0
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands 26/11/1963 loujon Press poetry 47 1
Jaggernaut 1/12/1995 Beat Scene Press prose 48 0
Legs, Hips and Behind 1/8/1978 Wormwood Review poetry 49 0
Living On Luck 15/11/1995 Black Sparrow Press neither 131 1
Longshot Pomes for Broke Players 1/10/1961 7 Poets Press poetry 50 1
Los Angeles - Andernach, Letters to Uncle Heinrich 1/12/2004 Ariel neither 134 0
Love is a Dog From Hell 15/9/1977 Black Sparrow Press poetry 51 1
Luck 1/1/1987 Black Sparrow Press poetry 52 0
Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems 1/12/1972 KissKill Press poetry 54 0
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck 1/6/1972 Black Sparrow Press poetry 55 1
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man 15/9/2011 City Lights Books prose 120 1
Not Quite Bernadette 1/12/1990 Graybeard Press poetry 56 0
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 0/10/1973 City Lights Books prose 141 1
Notes of a Dirty Old Man 24/1/1969 Essex House prose 57 1
Now 1/1/1992 Black Sparrow Press poetry 58 0
On Cats 1/12/2015 Ecco both 126 1
On Drinking 12/2/2019 Ecco both 140 1
On Love 2/2/2016 Ecco both 127 1
On Writing 27/8/2015 Ecco neither 125 1
One for the Old Boy 1/1/1984 Black Sparrow Press poetry 59 0
Open All Night 1/10/2000 Black Sparrow Press poetry 60 1
Penguin Modern Poets 1969 Penguin Books poetry 138 0
People Poems 1/6/1991 Wormwood Review poetry 61 0
Pink Silks 1/1/2001 Black Sparrow Press poetry 63 0
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit 25/7/1979 Black Sparrow Press poetry 64 1
Poems and Drawings 1/10/1962 Epos poetry 65 1
Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window 1/8/1968 Poetry X/Change poetry 66 1
Popcorn in the Dark 1/1/2000 Black Sparrow Press poetry 67 0
Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook 1/9/2008 City Lights Books prose 114 1
Post Office 8/2/1971 Black Sparrow Press prose 115 1
Pulp 22/4/1994 Black Sparrow Press prose 68 1
Reach For The Sun 1/6/1999 Black Sparrow Press neither 132 1
Red 30/1/1989 Burn Again Press poetry 69 0
Relentless as the Tarantula 1/12/1986 Planet Detroit Chapbooks poetry 70 0
Run With the Hunted 1/6/1962 Midwest Poetry Chapbooks poetry 71 1
Run With the Hunted 4/5/1993 HarperCollins both 72 1
Scarlet 14/4/1976 Black Sparrow Press poetry 73 0
Screams From The Balcony 15/11/1993 Black Sparrow Press neither 130 1
Septuagenarian Stew 10/5/1990 Black Sparrow Press both 74 1
Shakespeare Never Did This 15/6/1995 Black Sparrow Press both 135 1
Shakespeare Never Did This 1/10/1979 City Lights Books prose 75 1
Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way 24/12/2002 Ecco poetry 76 1
Signature 2 1/8/1961 Targets Magazine poetry 77 0
Slouching Toward Nirvana 18/1/2005 Ecco poetry 78 1
South of No North 17/12/1973 Black Sparrow Press prose 79 1
Sparks 1/1/1983 Black Sparrow Press poetry 80 0
Storm for the Living and the Dead 7/11/2017 Ecco poetry 137 1
Tales of Ordinary Madness 1/12/1983 City Lights Books prose 81 1
The Bell Tolls for No One 14/7/2015 City Lights Books prose 124 1
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship 23/3/1998 Black Sparrow Press neither 82 1
The Continual Condition 2/10/2009 Ecco poetry 116 1
The Curtains Are Waving And People Walk Through The Afternoon Here And In Berlin And In New York City And In Mexico 13/10/1967 Black Sparrow Press poetry 83 0
The Day it Snowed in L.A. 1/9/1983 The Paget Press neither 84 0
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills 30/12/1969 Black Sparrow Press poetry 85 1
The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain 23/12/2004 Ecco poetry 86 1
The Genius of the Crowd 1/6/1966 7 Flowers Press poetry 87 0
The Last Generation 1/1/1982 Black Sparrow Press poetry 89 0
The Last Night of the Earth Poems 23/3/1992 Black Sparrow Press poetry 90 1
The Last Poem and Tough Company 1/1/1976 Black Sparrow Press poetry 91 0
The Laughing Heart 1/1/1996 Black Sparrow Press poetry 92 0
The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way 12/6/2018 City Lights prose 139 1
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories 1/12/1983 City Lights Books prose 93 1
The Movie: "Barfly" 1/9/1987 Black Sparrow Press neither 129 1
The Movie Critics 1/1/1988 Black Sparrow Press poetry 94 0
The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps 1/9/2001 Black Sparrow Press poetry 95 1
The People Look Like Flowers At Last 11/4/2007 Ecco poetry 112 1
The Pleasures of the Damned 30/10/2007 Ecco poetry 113 1
The Roominghouse Madrigals 25/5/1988 Black Sparrow Press poetry 96 1
The Simple Truth 1/1/2002 Black Sparrow Press poetry 97 0
The Singer 1/1/1999 Black Sparrow Press poetry 98 0
There's No Business 28/3/1984 Black Sparrow Press prose 99 1
This 25/5/1990 Burn Again Press poetry 100 0
Those Marvelous Lunches 1/1/1993 Black Sparrow Press poetry 101 0
Three By Bukowski 21/5/1992 Black Sparrow Press poetry 102 0
To Lean Back Into It 1/1/1998 Black Sparrow Press poetry 103 0
War All the Time 16/10/1984 Black Sparrow Press poetry 104 1
We Ain't Got No Money, Honey 1/1/1990 Black Sparrow Press poetry 105 0
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire 1/9/1999 Black Sparrow Press poetry 107 1
Women 15/12/1978 Black Sparrow Press prose 109 1
You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense 26/9/1986 Black Sparrow Press poetry 110 1
You Kissed Lily 8/2/1978 Black Sparrow Press poetry 111 0