Wendell Berry's Work
Books and Chapbooks
Listed Chronologically

Wendell Berry Links

For more information on an individual book, click on the linked title.

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.

1960-1969
Nathan Coulter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960 (revised North Point, 1985). novel
November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three New York: Braziller, 1964. poem
The Broken Ground. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1964. poems
A Place on Earth. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, 1967 (revised North Point,1983; Counterpoint, 2001). novel
Findings. Iowa City, Iowa: Prairie, 1968. poems
Openings. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968. poems
The Rise. Lexington, Kentucky: Grave, 1968. essays
The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004). essays

1970-1979
Farming: A Hand Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970. poems
The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. essay
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
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
An Eastward Look. Berkely, California: Sand Dollar, 1974. poem
Horses. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1974. poem
The Memory of Old Jack. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974. (revised Counterpoint 2001). novel
Sayings and Doings. Lexington, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1975. poems
To What Listens. Crete, Nebraska: Best Cellar, 1975. poem
The Kentucky River. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1976. poem
There Is Singing Around Me. Austin: Cold Mountain Press, 1976. poems
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977; Avon Books, 1978; Sierra Club, 1986. essays
Clearing. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1977. poems
Three Memorial Poems. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1977. poems

1980-1989
A Part. San Francisco: North Point, 1980. poems
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980. San Francisco: North Point, 1981. essays
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco: North Point, 1981. essays
The Wheel. San Francisco, North Point, 1982. poems
Standing by Words. San Francisco: North Point, 1983 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005). essays
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982. San Francisco: North Point, 1985. poems
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco: North Point , 1986. short stories
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1987. essays
Sabbaths: Poems. San Francisco: North Point, 1987. poems
Remembering. San Francisco: North Point, 1988. novel
Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point 1989. poems

1990-1999
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work. U P of Kentucky, 1990. essay
What Are People For? New York: North Point, 1990. essays
The Discovery of Kentucky. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1991. short story
Fidelity. New York: Pantheon, 1992. short stories
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. New York: Pantheon, 1992. essays
A Consent. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1993. story
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
Entries. New York: Pantheon, 1994 (reprint Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997). poems
The Farm. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1995. poem
Another Turn of the Crank. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1996. essays
A World Lost. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996. novel
Entries. Counterpoint (reprint ), 1997. poems
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1997. short stories
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998. poems
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. poems

2000-
Jayber Crow. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. novel
Life Is a Miracle. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000. essay
In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Barrington, MA: Orion, 2001. essays
Sonata at Payne Hollow. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2001. play
Three Short Novels [Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002. novels
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 2002. essays
Citizenship Papers. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003. essays
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker, 2004.
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Photographs by James Baker Hall. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 2004. essay
Hannah Coulter. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004. novel
Sabbaths 2002. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2004. poems
Given: New Poems. Washington D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005. poems
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 Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. essays
Andy Catlett: Early Travels.Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006. novel
Window Poems. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. poems
The Mad Farmer Poems. Counterpoint, 2008. poems

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