Wendell Berry Books in Order

Wendell Berry is a renowned conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet, who currently resides on a farm in Henry County, Kentucky, his birthplace in 1934. As a celebrated author, his work has garnered widespread recognition and acclaim. The New York Times has aptly referred to Berry as the "prophet of rural America," a testament to his profound insights into the human relationship with the land and the importance of sustainable living. Through his writings, Berry has been a powerful voice in contemporary American literature, inspiring readers to reevaluate their connection with nature and the communities that surround them. His notable works have left a lasting impact on the literary world, cementing his status as a leading figure in modern American letters.

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Wendell Berry

  • #1
    Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford)(1970)
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    Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker)(1970)
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    Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro)(1970)
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    The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir)(1972)
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    The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva)(1991)
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    Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva)(2000)
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    From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus)(2006)
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    Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle)(2007)
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  • #9
    Wendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters)(2007)
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    The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon)(2007)
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    The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek)(2008)
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    Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus)(2008)
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    Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege)(2008)
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    Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman)(2009)
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    The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson)(2010)
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    The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis)(2011)
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    The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger)(2011)
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    Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark)(2011)
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    Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford)(2011)
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    The Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva)(2014)
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    Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento)(2016)
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  • #1
    Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)
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    Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981)
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  • #3
    Conversations with Graham Greene(1983)
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  • #4
    Conversations with Eudora Welty(1985)
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    Conversations with Walker Percy(1985)
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  • #6
    Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985)
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    Conversations with William Styron(1985)
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    Conversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986)
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    Conversations with Lillian Hellman(1986)
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  • #10
    Conversations with Tennessee Williams(1986)
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    Conversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986)
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    Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987)
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  • #13
    Truman Capote: Conversations(1987)
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    Conversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987)
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    Conversations with Peter Taylor(1987)
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    Conversations with Arthur Miller(1987)
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    Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988)
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    Conversations with Edward Albee(1988)
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    Conversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988)
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  • #20
    Conversations with Norman Mailer(1988)
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    Conversations with Robert Graves(1989)
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  • #22
    Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989)
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    Conversations with Shelby Foote(1989)
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    Conversations with Robertson Davies(1989)
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    Conversations with James Baldwin(1989)
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    Conversations with John Gardner(1990)
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    Conversations with Richard Wilbur(1990)
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    Conversations with Tom Wolfe(1990)
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    Conversations with Raymond Carver(1990)
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    Conversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990)
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    Conversations with Reynolds Price(1991)
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    Conversations with Bernard Malamud(1991)
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    Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991)
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    Conversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992)
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    Conversations With Thornton Wilder(1992)
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    Conversations with Robert Coles(1992)
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    Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992)
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  • #38
    More Conversations with Walker Percy(1993)
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    Conversations with Richard Wright(1993)
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    Conversations with Paul Bowles(1993)
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    Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994)
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    Conversations with Amiri Baraka(1994)
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    Conversations with Toni Morrison(1994)
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    Conversations with Saul Bellow(1994)
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    Conversations with Henry Miller(1994)
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    Conversations with Ernest Gaines(1995)
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    Conversations with Ralph Ellison(1995)
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    Conversations with Chester Himes(1995)
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    Conversations with Susan Sontag(1995)
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    Conversations with Ishmael Reed(1995)
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    Conversations with Derek Walcott(1996)
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  • #52
    More Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996)
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    Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996)
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    Conversations with Pauline Kael(1996)
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    Conversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
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    Conversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997)
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  • #57
    Conversations with Chinua Achebe(1997)
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    Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998)
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    Conversations with Denise Levertov(1998)
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  • #60
    Conversations With William Faulkner(1999)
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  • #61
    Conversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999)
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    Conversations With John Fowles(1999)
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    Conversations with Salman Rushdie(2000)
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    Conversations with William S. Burroughs(2000)
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  • #65
    Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000)
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    Conversations with Chaim Potok(2001)
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    Conversations with Richard Ford(2001)
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    Conversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001)
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    Conversations with Mary Gordon(2002)
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    Conversations with Jim Harrison(2002)
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    Conversations with Clarence Major(2002)
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    Conversations with Margaret Walker(2002)
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    Conversations with Erica Jong(2002)
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    Elie Wiesel: Conversations(2002)
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    Joseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003)
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    Conversations with Rita Dove(2003)
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    Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003)
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  • #78
    Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003)
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    Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003)
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    Conversations with Gloria Naylor(2004)
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    Conversations with Audre Lorde(2004)
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    Conversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)
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    Conversations With John le Carré(2004)
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    Conversations with Isaac Asimov(2005)
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    Conversations with Don DeLillo(2005)
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    Conversations with Gore Vidal(2005)
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    Conversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005)
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  • #88
    Conversations with Jack Kerouac(2005)
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    Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005)
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    Conversations with Thomas McGuane(2006)
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    Conversations with Larry Brown(2007)
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    Conversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007)
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  • #93
    Conversations with Wendell Berry(2007)
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    Conversations with Leon Forrest(2007)
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    Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
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  • #1
    In the Presence of Fear(2001)
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    Patriotism and the American Land (By: Richard Nelson)(2002)
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  • #3
    The Open Space of Democracy (By: Terry Tempest Williams)(2004)
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  • #4
    Citizens Dissent(2006)
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    The Long-Legged House(1966)
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    The Hidden Wound(1970)
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    The Unforeseen Wilderness(1971)
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  • #4
    A Continuous Harmony(1972)
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  • #5
    The Agricultural Crisis(1977)
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  • #6
    The Unsettling of America(1977)
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  • #7
    The Gift of Good Land(1981)
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  • #8
    Recollected Essays, 1965-1980(1981)
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  • #9
    Standing by Words(1982)
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  • #10
    Preserving wildness(1986)
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  • #11
    Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer(1987)
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  • #12
    Home Economics(1987)
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    From the Heartlands(1988)
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  • #14
    Harlan Hubbard(1990)
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  • #15
    What Are People For?(1990)
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  • #16
    Standing on Earth(1991)
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    Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community(1993)
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  • #18
    Another Turn of the Crank(1995)
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  • #19
    Life is a Miracle(2000)
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  • #20
    The Art of the Commonplace(2002)
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  • #21
    Citizenship Papers(2003)
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  • #22
    The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays(2005)
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  • #23
    Blessed are the Peacemakers(2005)
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  • #24
    Bringing it to the Table(2009)
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  • #25
    Imagination in Place(2010)
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  • #26
    What Matters?(2010)
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  • #27
    It All Turns on Affection(2012)
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  • #28
    Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder(2014)
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  • #29
    Our Only World(2015)
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  • #30
    Roots to the Earth(2016)
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  • #31
    A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson(2017)
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  • #32
    The Art of Loading Brush(2019)
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    The World-Ending Fire(2019)
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    The City and the Farm Crisis(2019)
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  • #35
    What I Stand On(2019)
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  • #36
    Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990(2019)
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  • #37
    Essays, 1993-2017(2019)
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  • #38
    Think Little(2019)
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  • #39
    The Need to Be Whole(2022)
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  • #40
    Late Harvest(1991)
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  • #41
    Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith(1994)
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  • #42
    Simpler Living, Compassionate Life(1999)
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  • #43
    Listening for God, Vol. 3(2000)
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  • #44
    The Portable Sixties Reader(2003)
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  • #45
    O Taste and See: Food Poems(2003)
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  • #46
    Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction(2007)
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  • #47
    Hope Beneath Our Feet(2010)
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  • #48
    Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth(2015)
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  • #49
    The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016(2016)
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  • #50
    Letters to a Young Farmer(2017)
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  • #51
    The Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World(2019)
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  • #52
    A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia(2019)
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  • #53
    Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together(2021)
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  • #1
    Nathan Coulter(1960)
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  • #2
    The Wild Birds(1986)
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  • #3
    Remembering(1988)
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  • #4
    A World Lost(1996)
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  • #5
    Two More Stories of the Port William Membership(1997)
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  • #6
    Jayber Crow(2000)
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  • #7
    That Distant Land(2002)
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  • #8
    Hannah Coulter(2004)
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  • #9
    Andy Catlett(2006)
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  • #10
    Whitefoot(2008)
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  • #11
    A Place in Time(2013)
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  • #12
    Marce Catlett(2025)
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  • #1
    A Place on Earth(1966)
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  • #2
    The Memory of Old Jack(1974)
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  • #3
    How It Went(2022)
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    To know the dark(1989)
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  • #2
    Stand By Me(2008)
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  • #3
    The Discovery Of Kentucky(1991)
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  • #4
    How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet(1992)
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  • #5
    Whitefoot(2008)
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  • #6
    Broken Ground(1964)
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  • #7
    November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three(1964)
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  • #8
    Openings(1968)
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  • #9
    The rise(1968)
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  • #10
    Findings(1969)
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  • #11
    Farming, a Hand Book(1970)
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  • #12
    The Country of Marriage(1973)
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  • #13
    Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look(1975)
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  • #14
    Horses(1975)
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  • #15
    Kentucky River(1975)
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  • #16
    Clearing(1977)
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  • #17
    The Salad(1980)
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  • #18
    The Wheel(1982)
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  • #19
    A Part(1983)
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  • #20
    The Collected Poems, 1957-1982(1985)
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  • #21
    The wild rose(1986)
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  • #22
    I go from the woods into the cleared field(1987)
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  • #23
    Sabbaths(1987)
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  • #24
    The Landscape Of Harmony(1987)
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  • #25
    Traveling at Home(1989)
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  • #26
    Fidelity(1992)
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  • #27
    Watch With Me(1994)
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  • #28
    Entries(1994)
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  • #29
    Three on Community(1996)
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  • #30
    A Timbered Choir(1998)
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  • #31
    The Selected Poems(1998)
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    The Gift of Gravity(2003)
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  • #33
    Given(2005)
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  • #34
    Window Poems(2007)
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    The Mad Farmer(2008)
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  • #36
    Leavings(2009)
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  • #37
    The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford(2011)
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  • #38
    New Collected Poems(2012)
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  • #39
    This Day(2013)
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  • #40
    Terrapin(2014)
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  • #41
    A Small Porch(2016)
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  • #42
    The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry(2017)
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    The Peace of Wild Things(2018)
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    The Farm(2018)
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    Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows(2019)
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  • #46
    Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023(2024)
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About Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is a renowned conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet, who currently resides on a farm in Henry County, Kentucky, his birthplace in 1934. As a celebrated author, his work has garnered widespread recognition and acclaim. The New York Times has aptly referred to Berry as the "prophet of rural America," a testament to his profound insights into the human relationship with the land and the importance of sustainable living. Through his writings, Berry has been a powerful voice in contemporary American literature, inspiring readers to reevaluate their connection with nature and the communities that surround them. His notable works have left a lasting impact on the literary world, cementing his status as a leading figure in modern American letters.

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