This list of Charles Bukowski influences is by no means exhaustive, but here are some of the main writers and books that made an impression on Bukowski and his fiction (I will cover poets and poetry in a separate post).
The list is in no particular order. It won't surprise those who are familiar with Bukowski that most of the writers who influenced him could be considered "Outsider" writers, that's to say authors who concerned themselves with people operating on the fringes of society, or who were outcasts themselves.
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