Novels
- 1971 – Post Office
- 1975 – Factotum
- 1978 – Women
- 1982 – Ham on Rye
- 1989 – Hollywood
- 1994 – Pulp
Poetry collections
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Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960)
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It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963) (title taken from Robinson Jeffers poem, "Hellenistics")
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Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
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At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
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Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8-story Window (1968)
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A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
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Fire Station (1970)
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
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Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955–1973 (1974)
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Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
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Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)
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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
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Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)
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War All the Time: Poems 1981–1984 (1984)
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You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
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The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
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Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
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People Poems (1991)
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
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Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996)
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What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. (1999)
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Open All Night (2000)
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The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (2001)
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Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
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The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951–1993 (2007)
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The Continual Condition (2009)
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On Cats (2015)
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On Love (2016)
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Storm for the Living and the Dead (2017)
Short story chapbooks and collections
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Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
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Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972)
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South of No North (1973)
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Hot Water Music (1983)
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Bring Me Your Love (1983)
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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)
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Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays (2008)
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Absence of the Hero (2010)
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More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011)
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The Bell Tolls For No One (CityLights, 2015 edition)
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On Drinking (2019)
Nonfiction books
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Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); expanded (1995)
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The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)
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On Writing Edited by Abel Debritto (2015)
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The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing; Edited by David Stephen Calonne (City Lights, 2018)
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