Wendell Berry's Work
Books and Chapbooks
Listed Alphabetically

Wendell Berry Links

See the Listing by Genre for individual titles within collections of essays or short stories.

Clicking on many of the individual titles below will take you to a closer look at that book.

This list is not comprehensive. It nods to Mr. Berry's support of small presses by listing some (mostly) hard-to-find, out-of-print works, but the aim is to present the bulk of Mr. Berry's writing that may be more widely available through libraries and bookstores. Please contact me with comments, additions, or corrections.

Andy Catlett: Early Travels.Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006. novel
Another Turn of the Crank. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1996. essays
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 2002. essays

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. a gathering , an introduction, and an essay
The Broken Ground
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1964. poems

Citizenship Papers. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003. essays
Clearing
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1977. poems
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982. San Francisco: North Point, 1985. poems
A Consent. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1993. story
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural & Agricultural. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1972 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004). essays
The Country of Marriage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973. poems

The Discovery of Kentucky. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1991. story
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004. stories

An Eastward Look. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1974. poem
Entries. New York: Pantheon, 1994 (Counterpoint, 1997). poems

The Farm. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1995. poem
Farming: A Hand Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970. poems
Fidelity. New York: Pantheon, 1992. short stories
Findings. Iowa City, Iowa: Prairie, 1968. poems

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco: North Point, 1981. essays
Given: New Poems. Washington D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005. poems

Hannah Coulter. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004. novel
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 1990. essay
The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970 (North Point, 1989). essays
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1987. essays
Horses. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1974. poem

In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Barrington, MA: Orion, 2001. essays

Jayber Crow. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. novel

The Kentucky River. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1976. poem

Life Is a Miracle. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. essays
The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004). essays

The Memory of Old Jack. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974. (revised Counterpoint 2001). novel

Nathan Coulter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960 (revised North Point, 1985). novel
November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three. New York: Braziller, 1964. poem

Openings. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968. poems

A Part. San Francisco: North Point, 1980. poems
A Place on Earth. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, 1967 (revised North Point,1983 and Counterpoint, 2001). novel

Recollected Essays, 1965-1980. San Francisco: North Point, 1981. essays
Remembering. San Francisco: North Point, 1988. novel
The Rise. Lexington, Kentucky: Grave, 1968. essays

Sabbaths: Poems. San Francisco: North Point, 1987. poems
Sabbaths 2002. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2004. poems
Sayings and Doings. Lexington, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1975. poems
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. poems
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. New York: Pantheon, 1992. essays
Sonata at Payne Hollow. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2001. play
Standing by Words. San Francisco: North Point, 1983 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005). essays

There Is Singing Around Me. Austin: Cold Mountain Press, 1976. poems
Three Memorial Poems
. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1977. poems
Three Short Novels [Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002. novels
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. poems
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Photographs by James Baker Hall. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 2004. essay
To What Listens. Crete, Nebraska: Best Cellar, 1975. poem
Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point 1989. poems
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1997. short stories

The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge. Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. U P Kentucky, 1971. Revised North Point, 1991. Reissued and revised Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006. essay
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977; Avon Books, 1978; Sierra Club, 1986. essays

Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. New York: Pantheon, 1994. stories
What Are People For? New York: North Point, 1990. essays
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. essays
The Wheel. San Francisco, North Point, 1982. poems
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco: North Point, 1986. short stories
Window Poems. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. poems
A World Lost. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. novel

compiled by Tom Murphy, O. Carm., Carmel Catholic High School, Mundelein, IL