Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
The Long-Legged House
Buy on Amazon1966
The Hidden Wound
Buy on Amazon1970
The Unforeseen Wilderness
Buy on Amazon1971
A Continuous Harmony
Buy on Amazon1972
The Agricultural Crisis
Buy on Amazon1977
The Unsettling of America
Buy on Amazon1977
The Gift of Good Land
Buy on Amazon1981
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
Buy on Amazon1981
Standing by Words
Buy on Amazon1982
Preserving wildness
Buy on Amazon1986
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
Buy on Amazon1987
Home Economics
Buy on Amazon1987
From the Heartlands
Buy on Amazon1988
Harlan Hubbard
Buy on Amazon1990
What Are People For?
Buy on Amazon1990
Standing on Earth
Buy on Amazon1991
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
Buy on Amazon1993
Another Turn of the Crank
Buy on Amazon1995
Life is a Miracle
Buy on Amazon2000
The Art of the Commonplace
Buy on Amazon2002
Citizenship Papers
Buy on Amazon2003
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
Buy on Amazon2005
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Buy on Amazon2005
Bringing it to the Table
Buy on Amazon2009
Imagination in Place
Buy on Amazon2010
What Matters?
Buy on Amazon2010
It All Turns on Affection
Buy on Amazon2012
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder
Buy on Amazon2014
Our Only World
Buy on Amazon2015
Roots to the Earth
Buy on Amazon2016
A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
Buy on Amazon2017
The Art of Loading Brush
Buy on Amazon2019
The World-Ending Fire
Buy on Amazon2019
The City and the Farm Crisis
Buy on Amazon2019
What I Stand On
Buy on Amazon2019
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990
Buy on Amazon2019
Essays, 1993-2017
Buy on Amazon2019
Think Little
Buy on Amazon2019
The Need to Be Whole
Buy on Amazon2022
Late Harvest
Buy on Amazon1991
Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith
Buy on Amazon1994
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
Buy on Amazon1999
Listening for God, Vol. 3
Buy on Amazon2000
The Portable Sixties Reader
Buy on Amazon2003
O Taste and See: Food Poems
Buy on Amazon2003
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Buy on Amazon2007
Hope Beneath Our Feet
Buy on Amazon2010
Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth
Buy on Amazon2015
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
Buy on Amazon2016
Letters to a Young Farmer
Buy on Amazon2017
The Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World
Buy on Amazon2019
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
Buy on Amazon2019
Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together
Buy on Amazon2021
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Non-Fiction series is publication order: 1. The Long-Legged House (1966), 2. The Hidden Wound (1970), 3. The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971), 4. A Continuous Harmony (1972), 5. The Agricultural Crisis (1977), and 48 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Non-Fiction series by Wendell Berry contains 53 books. The series began in 1966 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Non-Fiction series is written by Wendell Berry. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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