These are what i would recommend, I dont think you would like his poetry stuff, its pretty fuckin bizzar..
I like his novels better.


The first book you MUST read by Buk is

Post Office once ya read Post Office you are prolly hooked on Buk

And then

Ham on Rye

Then

Pulp

Finish it off with

Hollywood

And he wrote the movie Barfly, ya could just rent that, i posted it a while back, the movie follows the book almost exactly, and Bukowski actually had a cameo in the movie.

These are really just shit that happined to him in his life, he was a hell of a guy that had a hell of a life.

And ya should read them in that order if ya can, just my op