Culture of the Land Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Culture of the Land books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford)
Buy on Amazon1970
Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker)
Buy on Amazon1970
Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro)
Buy on Amazon1970
The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir)
Buy on Amazon1972
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva)
Buy on Amazon1991
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva)
Buy on Amazon2000
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus)
Buy on Amazon2006
Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle)
Buy on Amazon2007
Wendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters)
Buy on Amazon2007
The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon)
Buy on Amazon2007
The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek)
Buy on Amazon2008
Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus)
Buy on Amazon2008
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege)
Buy on Amazon2008
Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman)
Buy on Amazon2009
The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson)
Buy on Amazon2010
The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis)
Buy on Amazon2011
The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger)
Buy on Amazon2011
Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark)
Buy on Amazon2011
Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford)
Buy on Amazon2011
The Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva)
Buy on Amazon2014
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento)
Buy on Amazon2016
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Culture of the Land series is publication order: 1. Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford) (1970), 2. Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker) (1970), 3. Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro) (1970), 4. The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir) (1972), 5. The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva) (1991), and 16 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Culture of the Land series by Wendell Berry contains 21 books. The series began in 1970 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Culture of the Land series is written by Wendell Berry. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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