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
- #1AmazonLiving Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford)(1970)
- #2AmazonWendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker)(1970)
- #3AmazonVirtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro)(1970)
- #4AmazonThe Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir)(1972)
- #5AmazonThe Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva)(1991)
- #6AmazonStolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva)(2000)
- #7AmazonFrom the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus)(2006)
- #8AmazonAgrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle)(2007)
- #9AmazonWendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters)(2007)
- #10AmazonThe Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon)(2007)
- #11AmazonThe Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek)(2008)
- #12AmazonLearning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus)(2008)
- #13AmazonBeyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege)(2008)
- #14AmazonWendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman)(2009)
- #15AmazonThe Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson)(2010)
- #16AmazonThe Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis)(2011)
- #17AmazonThe Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger)(2011)
- #18AmazonFields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark)(2011)
- #19AmazonGrowing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford)(2011)
- #20AmazonThe Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva)(2014)
- #21AmazonBuilding a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento)(2016)
- #1AmazonConversations with Jorge Luis Borges(1969)
- #2AmazonConversations with Czeslaw Milosz(1981)
- #3AmazonConversations with Graham Greene(1983)
- #4AmazonConversations with Eudora Welty(1985)
- #5AmazonConversations with Walker Percy(1985)
- #6AmazonConversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer(1985)
- #7AmazonConversations with William Styron(1985)
- #8AmazonConversations with Malcolm Cowley(1986)
- #9AmazonConversations with Lillian Hellman(1986)
- #10AmazonConversations with Tennessee Williams(1986)
- #11AmazonConversations with Ernest Hemingway(1986)
- #12AmazonConversations with Katherine Anne Porter(1987)
- #13AmazonTruman Capote: Conversations(1987)
- #14AmazonConversations with Flannery O'Connor(1987)
- #15AmazonConversations with Peter Taylor(1987)
- #16AmazonConversations with Arthur Miller(1987)
- #17AmazonConversations with Kurt Vonnegut(1988)
- #18AmazonConversations with Edward Albee(1988)
- #19AmazonConversations with Erskine Caldwell(1988)
- #20AmazonConversations with Norman Mailer(1988)
- #21AmazonConversations with Robert Graves(1989)
- #22AmazonConversations with Joyce Carol Oates(1989)
- #23AmazonConversations with Shelby Foote(1989)
- #24AmazonConversations with Robertson Davies(1989)
- #25AmazonConversations with James Baldwin(1989)
- #26AmazonConversations with John Gardner(1990)
- #27AmazonConversations with Richard Wilbur(1990)
- #28AmazonConversations with Tom Wolfe(1990)
- #29AmazonConversations with Raymond Carver(1990)
- #30AmazonConversations with Eugene O'Neill(1990)
- #31AmazonConversations with Reynolds Price(1991)
- #32AmazonConversations with Bernard Malamud(1991)
- #33AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Spencer(1991)
- #34AmazonConversations with Nikki Giovanni(1992)
- #35AmazonConversations With Thornton Wilder(1992)
- #36AmazonConversations with Robert Coles(1992)
- #37AmazonConversations with M. F. K. Fisher(1992)
- #38AmazonMore Conversations with Walker Percy(1993)
- #39AmazonConversations with Richard Wright(1993)
- #40AmazonConversations with Paul Bowles(1993)
- #41AmazonConversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris(1994)
- #42AmazonConversations with Amiri Baraka(1994)
- #43AmazonConversations with Toni Morrison(1994)
- #44AmazonConversations with Saul Bellow(1994)
- #45AmazonConversations with Henry Miller(1994)
- #46AmazonConversations with Ernest Gaines(1995)
- #47AmazonConversations with Ralph Ellison(1995)
- #48AmazonConversations with Chester Himes(1995)
- #49AmazonConversations with Susan Sontag(1995)
- #50AmazonConversations with Ishmael Reed(1995)
- #51AmazonConversations with Derek Walcott(1996)
- #52AmazonMore Conversations with Eudora Welty(1996)
- #53AmazonConversations with Elizabeth Bishop(1996)
- #54AmazonConversations with Pauline Kael(1996)
- #55AmazonConversations with V. S. Naipaul(1997)
- #56AmazonConversations with N. Scott Momaday(1997)
- #57AmazonConversations with Chinua Achebe(1997)
- #58AmazonConversations with Maxine Hong Kingston(1998)
- #59AmazonConversations with Denise Levertov(1998)
- #60AmazonConversations With William Faulkner(1999)
- #61AmazonConversations with E. L. Doctorow(1999)
- #62AmazonConversations With John Fowles(1999)
- #63AmazonConversations with Salman Rushdie(2000)
- #64AmazonConversations with William S. Burroughs(2000)
- #65AmazonConversations with Leslie Marmon Silko(2000)
- #66AmazonConversations with Chaim Potok(2001)
- #67AmazonConversations with Richard Ford(2001)
- #68AmazonConversations with Christopher Isherwood(2001)
- #69AmazonConversations with Mary Gordon(2002)
- #70AmazonConversations with Jim Harrison(2002)
- #71AmazonConversations with Clarence Major(2002)
- #72AmazonConversations with Margaret Walker(2002)
- #73AmazonConversations with Erica Jong(2002)
- #74AmazonElie Wiesel: Conversations(2002)
- #75AmazonJoseph Brodsky: Conversations(2003)
- #76AmazonConversations with Rita Dove(2003)
- #77AmazonConversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald(2003)
- #78AmazonConversations with Gwendolyn Brooks(2003)
- #79AmazonConversations with Stanley Kaufmann(2003)
- #80AmazonConversations with Gloria Naylor(2004)
- #81AmazonConversations with Audre Lorde(2004)
- #82AmazonConversations with Ray Bradbury(2004)
- #83AmazonConversations With John le Carré(2004)
- #84AmazonConversations with Isaac Asimov(2005)
- #85AmazonConversations with Don DeLillo(2005)
- #86AmazonConversations with Gore Vidal(2005)
- #87AmazonConversations with Robert Penn Warren(2005)
- #88AmazonConversations with Jack Kerouac(2005)
- #89AmazonConversations with Gabriel García Márquez(2005)
- #90AmazonConversations with Thomas McGuane(2006)
- #91AmazonConversations with Larry Brown(2007)
- #92AmazonConversations with Sonia Sanchez(2007)
- #93AmazonConversations with Wendell Berry(2007)
- #94AmazonConversations with Leon Forrest(2007)
- #95AmazonConversations with Kazuo Ishiguro(2008)
- #1AmazonThe Long-Legged House(1966)
- #2AmazonThe Hidden Wound(1970)
- #3AmazonThe Unforeseen Wilderness(1971)
- #4AmazonA Continuous Harmony(1972)
- #5AmazonThe Agricultural Crisis(1977)
- #6AmazonThe Unsettling of America(1977)
- #7AmazonThe Gift of Good Land(1981)
- #8AmazonRecollected Essays, 1965-1980(1981)
- #9AmazonStanding by Words(1982)
- #10AmazonPreserving wildness(1986)
- #11AmazonWhy I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer(1987)
- #12AmazonHome Economics(1987)
- #13AmazonFrom the Heartlands(1988)
- #14AmazonHarlan Hubbard(1990)
- #15AmazonWhat Are People For?(1990)
- #16AmazonStanding on Earth(1991)
- #17AmazonSex, Economy, Freedom & Community(1993)
- #18AmazonAnother Turn of the Crank(1995)
- #19AmazonLife is a Miracle(2000)
- #20AmazonThe Art of the Commonplace(2002)
- #21AmazonCitizenship Papers(2003)
- #22AmazonThe Way of Ignorance and Other Essays(2005)
- #23AmazonBlessed are the Peacemakers(2005)
- #24AmazonBringing it to the Table(2009)
- #25AmazonImagination in Place(2010)
- #26AmazonWhat Matters?(2010)
- #27AmazonIt All Turns on Affection(2012)
- #28AmazonDistant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder(2014)
- #29AmazonOur Only World(2015)
- #30AmazonRoots to the Earth(2016)
- #31AmazonA Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson(2017)
- #32AmazonThe Art of Loading Brush(2019)
- #33AmazonThe World-Ending Fire(2019)
- #34AmazonThe City and the Farm Crisis(2019)
- #35AmazonWhat I Stand On(2019)
- #36AmazonWendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990(2019)
- #37AmazonEssays, 1993-2017(2019)
- #38AmazonThink Little(2019)
- #39AmazonThe Need to Be Whole(2022)
- #40AmazonLate Harvest(1991)
- #41AmazonOdd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith(1994)
- #42AmazonSimpler Living, Compassionate Life(1999)
- #43AmazonListening for God, Vol. 3(2000)
- #44AmazonThe Portable Sixties Reader(2003)
- #45AmazonO Taste and See: Food Poems(2003)
- #46AmazonTouchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction(2007)
- #47AmazonHope Beneath Our Feet(2010)
- #48AmazonPlough Quarterly No. 4: Earth(2015)
- #49AmazonThe O. Henry Prize Stories 2016(2016)
- #50AmazonLetters to a Young Farmer(2017)
- #51AmazonThe Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World(2019)
- #52AmazonA Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia(2019)
- #53AmazonFollowing the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together(2021)
- #1AmazonNathan Coulter(1960)
- #2AmazonThe Wild Birds(1986)
- #3AmazonRemembering(1988)
- #4AmazonA World Lost(1996)
- #5AmazonTwo More Stories of the Port William Membership(1997)
- #6AmazonJayber Crow(2000)
- #7AmazonThat Distant Land(2002)
- #8AmazonHannah Coulter(2004)
- #9AmazonAndy Catlett(2006)
- #10AmazonWhitefoot(2008)
- #11AmazonA Place in Time(2013)
- #12AmazonMarce Catlett(2025)
- #1AmazonTo know the dark(1989)
- #2AmazonStand By Me(2008)
- #3AmazonThe Discovery Of Kentucky(1991)
- #4AmazonHow Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet(1992)
- #5AmazonWhitefoot(2008)
- #6AmazonBroken Ground(1964)
- #7AmazonNovember Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three(1964)
- #8AmazonOpenings(1968)
- #9AmazonThe rise(1968)
- #10AmazonFindings(1969)
- #11AmazonFarming, a Hand Book(1970)
- #12AmazonThe Country of Marriage(1973)
- #13AmazonSayings & Doings and an Eastward Look(1975)
- #14AmazonHorses(1975)
- #15AmazonKentucky River(1975)
- #16AmazonClearing(1977)
- #17AmazonThe Salad(1980)
- #18AmazonThe Wheel(1982)
- #19AmazonA Part(1983)
- #20AmazonThe Collected Poems, 1957-1982(1985)
- #21AmazonThe wild rose(1986)
- #22AmazonI go from the woods into the cleared field(1987)
- #23AmazonSabbaths(1987)
- #24AmazonThe Landscape Of Harmony(1987)
- #25AmazonTraveling at Home(1989)
- #26AmazonFidelity(1992)
- #27AmazonWatch With Me(1994)
- #28AmazonEntries(1994)
- #29AmazonThree on Community(1996)
- #30AmazonA Timbered Choir(1998)
- #31AmazonThe Selected Poems(1998)
- #32AmazonThe Gift of Gravity(2003)
- #33AmazonGiven(2005)
- #34AmazonWindow Poems(2007)
- #35AmazonThe Mad Farmer(2008)
- #36AmazonLeavings(2009)
- #37AmazonThe Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford(2011)
- #38AmazonNew Collected Poems(2012)
- #39AmazonThis Day(2013)
- #40AmazonTerrapin(2014)
- #41AmazonA Small Porch(2016)
- #42AmazonThe World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry(2017)
- #43AmazonThe Peace of Wild Things(2018)
- #44AmazonThe Farm(2018)
- #45AmazonDown in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows(2019)
- #46AmazonAnother Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023(2024)
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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