Reddit reviews post office: A Novel

The following are some of my favorite books that I could think of off the top of my head. Hopefully you dig the list.

• Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray
  
• David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
  
• Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  
• Charles Bukowski - post office
  
• Ned Vizzini - It's Kind of a Funny Story
  
• Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
  
• Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
  
• Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor
  
• Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
  
• Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
  
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground
  
• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  
• Voltaire - Candide
  
• Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
  
• Christopher Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
  
• Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
  
• Kitty Fitzgerald - Pigtopia
  
• Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
  
• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
  
• C. D. Payne - Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
  
• Peter Conn - The Good Earth
  
• John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
  
• Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  
• Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain
  
• Philip Roth - American Pastoral
  
• James Clavell - Shogun (The Asian Saga Chronology)
  
• Christopher Moore - A Dirty Job
  
• Yann Martel - Life of Pi
  
• Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
  
• Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
  
• Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  
• Ian McEwan - Atonement
  
• Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
  
• Jonathan Acuff - Stuff Christians Like
  
• Craig Thompson - Blankets
  
• Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
  
• Zadie Smith - White Teeth
  
• Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
  
• Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker
  
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
  
• Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  
• John Irving - The World According to Garp
  
• John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
  
• Stephen King - The Shining
  
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
  
• Franz Kafka - The Trial
  
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
  
• Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Ok. You don't really like books. You're a kind man with a nice marriage. You live in a hip part of Philly. You travel a lot.

Here's an opposite book about all those things.
https://www.amazon.com/Post-Office-Novel-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0061177571

Disclaimers:

• I've never read either of the books you mention.
  
• I have only read books by one of the two authors you mention.
  
• Of the one author you mention whose books I have read, I haven't read any for, uh, over two decades now.
  
• I am pretty much ignoring your examples, and just going off of "my next fiction read".
  
  With all that said:
  
  Post Office
  
  by Charles Bukowski

Read this and it will prepare you

https://www.amazon.com/Post-Office-Novel-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0061177571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525989192&sr=8-1&keywords=post+office+bukowski

Read contemporary fiction imo. Knowing only the classics will get you only so far:

https://www.amazon.com/Post-Office-Novel-Charles-Bukowski/dp/0061177571/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535917754&sr=8-1&keywords=the+post+office+bukowski

https://www.amazon.com/We-Run-Bad-John-Curry-ebook/dp/B07DDL22LZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535913480&sr=8-1&keywords=we+run+bad

https://www.amazon.com/Chump-Change-Novel-Dan-Fante/dp/0061779245/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1535916000&sr=1-1&keywords=chump+change+fante

https://www.amazon.com/Fans-Notes-Frederick-Exley/dp/0679720766

https://www.amazon.com/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0802130208/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535934892&sr=8-1&keywords=confederacy+of+dunces

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Post Office by Bukowski is a great choice. Short, raunchy, deep, weird and engaging. You'll wanna read it multiple times.

I'd suggest the short novel "Post Office" by Charles Bukowski and if you love the dark humor and grittiness of that you'll love Bukowski's book "Ham on Rye."

I think you should get a bottle of wine and read post office by Charles Bukowski if you haven't.

He's a wonderful drunken dirty old man who hates everything and yet works at the post office for over fifteen years during two stints.

Post Office was his first novel and anything big outside of a few poems and his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", he was able to get a bit of national fame and ran with it.

He's a great binge read, but a shit man to emulate.

Aha - got it!

Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski

One of the most truthful funny novels I've ever read. 208 pages.