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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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