Novels

• Post Office (1971)
• Factotum (1975)
• Women (1978)
• Ham on Rye (1982)
• Hollywood (1989)
• Pulp (1994)

Poetry collections

• Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail (1960)
• Poems and Drawings (1962)
• Longshot Poems for Broke Players (1962)
• Run with the Hunted (1962)
• It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963)
• Crucifix in a Deathhand (1965)
• Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (1965)
• The Genius of the Crowd (1966)
• 2 by Bukowski (1967)
• The Curtains Are Waving (1967)
• At Terror Street and Agony Way (1968)
• Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 story Window (1968)
• A Bukowski Sampler (1969)
• The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969)
• Fire Station (1970)
• Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972)
• Me and Your Sometimes Love Poems (1972)
• While the Music Played (1973)
• Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974)
• Africa, Paris, Greece (1975)
• Scarlet (1976)
• Maybe Tomorrow (1977)
• Legs, Hips and Behind (1978)
• Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977)
• Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979)
• Dangling in the Tournefortia (1982)
• War All the Time (book)|War All the Time (1984)
• Horses Don't Bet on People & Neither Do I (1984)
• You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986)
• The Roominghouse Madrigals (1988)
• Beauti-ful & Other Long Poems (1988)
• Septuagenarian Stew: Stories & Poems (1990)
• People Poems (1991)
• The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
• Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories (1996)
• Bone Palace Ballet (book)|Bone Palace Ballet (1998)
• What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. (1999)
• Open All Night (book)|Open All Night (2000)
• The Night Torn Mad with Footsteps (2001)
• Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way (2003)
• As Buddha smiles (2003)
• The Flash of the Lightning Behind the Mountain (2004)
• Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005)
• Come on In! (2006)
• The People Look Like Flowers at Last (2007)
• The Pleasures of the Damned (2007)
• The Continual Condition (2009)

Short story chapbooks and collections

• Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts (1965)
• All the Assholes in the World and Mine (1966)
• Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
• Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) ISBN 978-0-87286-061-2
• South of No North (1973)
• Hot Water Music (1983)
• Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)
• The Most Beautiful Woman in Town (1983)
• Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays (2008) ISBN 978-0-87286-492-4.
• Absence of the Hero (2010)
• More Notes of a Dirty Old Man (2011)

Nonfiction books

• Shakespeare Never Did This (1979); expanded (1995)
• The Bukowski/Purdy Letters (1983)
• Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters (1993)
• Living on Luck: Selected Letters, vol. 2 (1995)
• The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship (1998)
• Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, vol. 3 (1999)
• Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondense of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli (2001)

Screenplays

• Barfly (1984)

Films

• Bukowski at Bellevue 1970 – Poetry Reading
• Supervan 1977 – Feature Film (Not based on Bukowski's work but Bukowski had cameo appearance as Wet T-Shirt Contest Water Boy)
• There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here – Filmed: 1979; DVD Release: 2008 – Poetry Reading
• The Last Straw – Filmed: 1980; DVD Release: 2008 – Poetry Reading
• Tales of Ordinary Madness – Feature Film
• Poetry In Motion 1982 – General Poetry Documentary
• Barfly 1987 – Feature Film
• Crazy Love 1987 – Feature Film (Belgium)
• Bukowski: Born Into This 2002 – Biographical Documentary
• Factotum 2005 – Feature Film
• The Suicide 2006 – Short film
• One Tough Mother 2010 Released on DVD – Poetry Reading