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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: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "The Long-Legged House" (1966) and follow publication order through all 53 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Long-Legged House
1966
The Hidden Wound
1970
The Unforeseen Wilderness
1971
A Continuous Harmony
1972
The Agricultural Crisis
1977
The Unsettling of America
1977
The Gift of Good Land
1981
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
1981
Standing by Words
1982
Preserving wildness
1986
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
1987
Home Economics
1987
From the Heartlands
1988
Harlan Hubbard
1990
What Are People For?
1990
Standing on Earth
1991
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
1993
Another Turn of the Crank
1995
Life is a Miracle
2000
The Art of the Commonplace
2002
Citizenship Papers
2003
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
2005
Blessed are the Peacemakers
2005
Bringing it to the Table
2009
Imagination in Place
2010
What Matters?
2010
It All Turns on Affection
2012
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder
2014
Our Only World
2015
Roots to the Earth
2016
A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
2017
The Art of Loading Brush
2019
The World-Ending Fire
2019
The City and the Farm Crisis
2019
What I Stand On
2019
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990
2019
Essays, 1993-2017
2019
Think Little
2019
The Need to Be Whole
2022
Late Harvest
1991
Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith
1994
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
1999
Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
The Portable Sixties Reader
2003
O Taste and See: Food Poems
2003
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
2007
Hope Beneath Our Feet
2010
Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth
2015
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
2016
Letters to a Young Farmer
2017
The Great Healing: Five Compassions That Can Save Our World
2019
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
2019
Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together
2021
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