These are what they call primary publications. That's a fancy bibliographical term for publications dedicated to one author. Most of the books published before 1969 or 1970 are very difficult to find, as are the limited edition books published more recently. But luckily for you, an amazing 48 of Bukowski's books are still in print. Those should keep you busy for a while. Any title that is a link is still readily available, either on line or at your favorite local Monster Book Coffee Movie Barn.

The other 150 or so items? Well, you're on your own there.

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Charles Bukowski Primary Publications Checklist               Show me a list of books only  (fewer items)

1946
 Portfolio III: Twenty Tanks From Kasseldown [broadside]

1960
 His Wife, The Painter [broadside]
 Flower, Fist And Bestial Wail
 A Signature Of Charles Bukowski Poetry

1961
 Signature 2
 A Charles Bukowski Album

1962
 Poems And Drawings
 Longshot Pomes For Broke Players
 Run With The Hunted
 Penny Poetry: The Priest And The Matador [broadside]

1963
 Same Old Thing Shakespeare Through Mailer [broadside]
 It Catches My Heart In Its Hands

1964
 Grip The Walls (center section of Wormwood Review)
 Coffin 1: His Wife The Painter, The Old Man On The Corner, The Paper On The Floor, Waste Basket [Broadsides]

1965
 Crucifix In A Deathhand
 Cold Dogs In The Courtyard
 Confessions Of A Man Insane Enough To Live With Beasts

1966
 True Story [broadside]
 On Going Out To Get The Mail [broadside]
 To Kiss The Worms Goodnight [broadside]
 The Genius Of The Crowd
 The Girls, For The Mercy-Mongers [broadside]
 All The Assholes In The World And Mine
 The Flower Lover, I Met A Genius [broadside]

1967
 2 Poems
 The Curtains Are Waving And People Walk Through The Afternoon Here And In Berlin And In New York City And In Mexico

1968
 At Terror Street And Agony Way
 Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window

1969
 Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
 A Bukowski Sampler
 If We Take
 The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills
 The Nature Of The Threat And What To Do [broadside]

1970
 Fire Station
 Another Academy [broadside]
 Chilled Green [broadside]
 An Answer To A Critic Of Sorts [broadside]

1971
 Post Office

1972
 Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions And General Tales Of Ordinary Madness
 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck [broadside]
 Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
 Me And Your Sometimes Love Poems

1973
 While The Music Played
 Love Poem To Marina [broadside]
 South Of No North

1974
 55 Beds in the Same Direction (center section of Wormwood Review)
 Burning In Water Drowning In Flame

1975
 Africa, Paris, Greece
 86'D [broadside]
 Weather Report [broadside]
 Winter [broadside]
 Factotum
 Face Of A Political Candidate On A Street Billboard [broadside]

1976
 The Last Poem And Tough Company
 Scarlet
 462-0614 [broadside]
 If I Suffer At This [broadside]
 Art

1977
 Maybe Tomorrow
 What They Want
 Love Is A Dog From Hell

1978
 You Kissed Lilly
 We'll Take Them
 Women
 A Note Upon A Workshop Instructor With Tiny Hairs Under His Chin [broadside]
 Legs, Hips And Behind

1979
 Dear Mr. Bukowski [Set Of Postcards]
 A Love Poem
 Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit
 Shakespeare Never Did This (City Lights)

1981
 Night Work [broadside]
 Dangling In The Tournefortia

1982
 The Last Generation
 A Fine Man A Fine Book
 Ham On Rye
 The Shoelace [Card]
 Horsemeat

1983
 Sparks
 Playing It Out [broadside]
 Bring Me Your Love
 Hot Water Music [broadside]
 Hot Water Music
 The Bukowski/Purdy Letters
 L'ubriacone (Barfly)
 The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories
 Tales Of Ordinary Madness
 Aftermath

1984
 One For The Old Boy
 There's No Business
 Talking To My Mailbox [broadside]
 War All The Time
 Barfly
 Horses Don't Bet On People and Neither do I
 Going Modern
 Blow 6

1985
 Alone In A Time Of Armies
 Cornered
 Pig In A Pamphlet

1986
 The Wedding
 Gold In Your Eye
 The Day It Snowed In L.A.
 You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
 Relentless As The Tarantula

1987
 Luck
 The Movie: "Barfly"
 Bukowski Photographs 1977-1987
 A Visitor Complains Of My Disenfranchise

1988
 The Movie Critics
 The Cage [broadside]
 The Roominghouse Madrigals
 Beauti-Ful & Other Long Poems

1989
 Red
 If You Let Them Kill You They Will
 Hollywood

1990
 We Ain't Got No Money, Honey
 Septuagenarian Stew
 Not Quite Bernadette
 This
 Warm Light [broadside]
 Darkness & Ice
 Upon This Most Delicate Profession [broadside]

1991
 In The Morning And At Night
 New Censorship Vol 2 No. 3
 In The Shadow Of The Rose
 A Couple Of Winos
 The Bluebird [broadside]
 People Poems
 Husk [broadside]
 Pastoral [broadside]

1992
 Now
 The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
 The New Censorship Vol. 3 No. 1
 Three Poems
 Cooney New Year's Card [broadside]

1993
 Those Marvelous Lunches
 Bukowski Photographs 1977-1991
 Run With The Hunted
 New Censorship Vol. 4 No. 2
 Screams From The Balcony

1994
 Between The Earthquake The Volcano And The Leopard
 Pulp
 French Quarter [broadside]

1995
 Confession Of A Coward
 Shakespeare Never Did This (Black Sparrow)
 Jaggernaut
 Heat Wave
 Living On Luck
 Fencing With The Shadows [broadside]
 Body Slam [broadside]

1996
 The Laughing Heart
 Betting On The Muse
 The Iris Prints

1997
 A New War
 Bone Palace Ballet
 The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship

1998
 To Lean Back Into It
 The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship
 The Word [broadside]

1999
 The Singer
 A Bukowski Poetry Contest [broadside]
 Crime And Punishment [broadside]
 Reach For The Sun
 What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

2000
 Popcorn In The Dark
 A Dead Romance [matchbook]
 My Fate [matchbook]
 Dark Night Poem [matchbook]
 Remembering Hank On His 80th Birthday [broadside]
 Open All Night

2001
 Pink Silks
 I Pour A Drink & Toast Love [postcard]
 Beerspit Night And Cursing
 The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
 Democracy [broadside]
 The Cruelty Of Loveless Love

2002
 The Simple Truth
 Be Cool, Fool [broadside]
 Sifting Through The Madness For The Word, The Line, The Way

2003
 Remembering Hank On His 83rd Birthday [broadside]
 Afternoons Into Night [broadside]
 Poop [broadside & Montfort photographs]
 Waste [broadside]
 My Cats [broadside]
 So You Want To Be A Writer? [broadside]
 As Buddha Smiles [broadsides]

2004
 The Flash Of Lightning Behind The Mountain
 Our Bones [broadside]

2005
 Slouching Toward Nirvana
 I Shot The Cat [broadside]
 Let's Have Some Fun [broadside]
 Celebrating Hank On His 85th Birthday [broadside]
 Coffee And Babies [broadside]

2006
 Come On In!
 Advice For Some Young Man In The Year 2064 a.d. [broadside]

2007
 The People Look Like Flowers At Last
 The Pleasures Of The Damned

2008
 Portions From A Wine-Stained Notebook

2009
 The Continual Condition: Poems

2010
 Absence of the Hero

2011
 More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
 Back to the Machinegun ~ Manuscripts, Volume 1 ~ 1959-1974