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Based on thoughtful votes cast by bukowski.net visitors, regulars and disinterested passersby, we hereby present the definitive and scientifically unimpeachable ranking of Bukowski's readily available works. Carve it in stone baby, the people of bukowski.net have spoken.      Vote percentage follows title. 3273 people have voted.

Novels

1. Ham On Rye  (1002 votes: 30.6%)
   
2. Women  (806 votes: 24.6%)
   
3. Post Office  (710 votes: 21.7%)
   
4. Factotum  (482 votes: 14.7%)
   
5. Pulp  (171 votes: 5.2%)
   
6. Hollywood  (102 votes: 3.1%)
   

Poetry

1. Love Is A Dog From Hell  (941 votes: 28.8%)
   
2. The Last Night Of The Earth Poems  (347 votes: 10.6%)
   
3. The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills  (317 votes: 9.7%)
   
4. Burning In Water Drowning In Flame  (309 votes: 9.4%)
   
5. Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit  (296 votes: 9%)
   
6. You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense  (275 votes: 8.4%)
   
7. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck  (223 votes: 6.8%)
   
8. War All The Time  (214 votes: 6.5%)
   
9. Septuagenarian Stew  (158 votes: 4.8%)
   
10. The Roominghouse Madrigals  (113 votes: 3.5%)
    
11. Dangling In The Tournefortia  (80 votes: 2.4%)
    

Prose

1. The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories/Tales Of Ordinary Madness  (1052 votes: 32.1%)
   
2. Notes Of A Dirty Old Man  (724 votes: 22.1%)
   
3. Hot Water Music  (665 votes: 20.3%)
   
4. South Of No North  (590 votes: 18%)
   
5. Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook  (183 votes: 5.6%)
   
6. Absence of the Hero  (59 votes: 1.8%)
   

Posthumous poetry

1. What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire  (701 votes: 21.4%)
   
2. Betting On The Muse  (592 votes: 18.1%)
   
3. Open All Night  (293 votes: 9%)
   
4. Slouching Toward Nirvana  (290 votes: 8.9%)
   
5. Sifting Through The Madness For The Word, The Line, The Way  (277 votes: 8.5%)
   
6. Bone Palace Ballet  (252 votes: 7.7%)
   
7. The People Look Like Flowers At Last  (251 votes: 7.7%)
   
8. The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps  (205 votes: 6.3%)
   
9. Come On In!  (195 votes: 6%)
   
10. The Flash Of Lightning Behind The Mountain  (163 votes: 5%)
    
11. The Continual Condition  (54 votes: 1.6%)
    

Other categories

1. The Movie: "Barfly"  (1061 votes: 32.4%)
   
2. The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship  (536 votes: 16.4%)
   
3. Shakespeare Never Did This  (417 votes: 12.7%)
   
4. Run With The Hunted  (371 votes: 11.3%)
   
5. The Pleasures Of The Damned  (340 votes: 10.4%)
   
6. Screams From The Balcony  (225 votes: 6.9%)
   
7. Living On Luck  (125 votes: 3.8%)
   
8. Beerspit Night And Cursing  (116 votes: 3.5%)
   
9. Reach For The Sun  (82 votes: 2.5%)