10 must-read literature books like Women by Charles Bukowski

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Women

By: Charles Bukowski

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac…

"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"

-Charles Bukowski, Women

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1. Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

By: John Fante

4.10

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

"Mean, moody, disturbing and intensely atmospheric.” —The Times John Fante's first published nov… read more

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"A fellow can't be so bad if he loves a girl as good as you."

-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

"Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching."

-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

"Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He a…"

-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

"    Breakfast was ready. He could hear his father asking for coffee. Why did his father have to yell all the time? Couldn't he talk in a low voice? Everybody in the neighborhood knew everything that …"

-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #1)

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

2. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

3. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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4. Women

By: Charles Bukowski

3.81

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slac… read more

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  • poetry
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  • the united states of america
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"Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met"

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

"You're the most unknown famous man I ever met."

-Charles Bukowski, Women

Cover of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

5. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Cover of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes

6. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life

By: Howard Sounes

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A former postman and long-term alcoholic who did not become a full-time writer until middle age, Ch… read more

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  • poetry
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7. Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

0.00

Format: None pages,

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more

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Cover of Mindfield: New and Selected Poems by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, None

8. Mindfield: New and Selected Poems

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Gregory Corso , None

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Republished with a new cover and a new introduction by David Amram, this publication includes forew… read more

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  • poetry
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Cover of El Nido de La Serpiente: Memorias del Hijo del Heladero by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

9. El Nido de La Serpiente: Memorias del Hijo del Heladero

By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Prologue of "Dirty Havana Trilogy," the life of young Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living ha… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Rum Diary

By: Hunter S. Thompson

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found . Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp,The … read more

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11. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

12. The Insatiable Spiderman

By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pedro Juan Gutierrez exploded onto the literary landscape three years ago with his bestselling nove… read more

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13. Junky

By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more

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14. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

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"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

15. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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16. West of Rome

By: John Fante

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing t… read more

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17. The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #2)

By: John Fante

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My fi… read more

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18. Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4)

By: John Fante

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934… read more

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19. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)

By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more

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20. Lolita

By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more

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"There was no Lo to behold."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"My little cup brims with tiddles."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."

-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

21. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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