Wendell Berry's Work
Books and Chapbooks
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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.

Non-Fiction

Another Turn of the Crank. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
[Farming and the Global Economy, Conserving Communities, Conserving Forest Communities, Private Property and the Common Wealth, The Conservation of Nature and the Preservation of Humanity, Health Is Membership]

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 2002.
[A Native Hill; The Unsettling of America; Racism and the Economy; Feminism, the Body, and the Machine; Think Little; The Body and the Earth; Men and Women in Search of Common Ground; Health Is Membership; Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community; People, Land, and Community; Conservation and Local Economy; Economy and Pleasure; Two Economies; The Whole Horse; The Idea of a Local Economy; A Big Bad Idea; Solving for Pattern; The Use of Energy; The Gift of Good Land; Christianity and the Survival of Creation; The Pleasures of Eating]

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
[Introduction; The Burden of the Gospels]

Citizenship Papers. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003.
[A Citizen's Response; Thoughts in the Presence of Fear; The Failure of War; Going to Work; In Distrust of Movements; Twelve Paragraphs on Biotechnology; Let the Farm Judge; The Total Economy, A Long Job, Too Late to Quit; Two Minds; The Prejudice Against Country People; The Whole Horse; Stupidity in Concentration; Watershed and Commonwealth; The Agrarian Standard; Still Standing; Conservationist and Agrarian; Tuscany; Is Life a Miracle?]

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural & Agricultural. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1972 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).
[A Secular Pilgrimage, Notes from an Absence and a Return, A Homage to Dr. Williams, The Regional Motive, Think Little, Discipline and Hope, In Defense of Literacy, Mayhem in the Industrial Paradise]

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco: North Point, 1981.
[An Agricultural Journey in Peru, Three Ways of Farming in the Southwest, The Native Grasses and What They Mean, The International Hill Land Symposium, Sanitation and the Small Farm, Horse-Drawn Tools and the Doctrine of Labor Saving, Agricultrual Solutions for Agricultural Problems, Energy in Agriculture, Solving for Pattern, The Economics of Subsistence, Family Work, The Reactor and the Garden, A Good Scythe, Looking Ahead, Home of the Free, Going Back - or Ahead - to Horses, A Few Words for Motherhood, A Rescued Farm, An Excellent Homestead, Elmer Lapp's Place, A Talent for Necessity, New Roots for Agricultural Research, Seven Amish Farms, The Gift of Good Land]

Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 1990.

The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1987.
[Letter to Wes Jackson; Getting Along with Nature; Irish Journal; Higher Education and Home Defense; Two Economies; The Loss of the University; Property, Patriotism, and National Defense; Men and Women in Search of Common Ground; Six Agricultural Fallacies; A Nation Rich in Natural Resources; Preserving Wildness; A Good Farmer of the Old School; A Defense of the Family Farm; Does Community Have a Value?]

In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Barrington, MA: Orion, 2001.
[Thoughts in the Presence of Fear, The Idea of a Local Economy, In Distrust of Movements]

Life Is a Miracle.Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.

The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).
[The Tyranny of Charity, The Landscaping of Hell, Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky (postscript, July 1968: A Land Set Aside), The Nature Consumers, The Loss of the Future, A Statement against the War in Vietnam, Some Thoughts on Citizenship and Conscience in Honor of Dan Pratt, The Rise, The Long-Legged House]

Recollected Essays, 1965-1980. San Francisco: North Point, 1981.
[The Rise, The Long-Legged House, A Native Hill, Nick and Aunt Georgie, Discipline and Hope, A Country of Edges, An Entrance to the Woods, The Unforeseen Wilderness, The Journey's End, The Body and the Earth, The Making of a Marginal Farm]

The Rise. Lexington, Kentucky: Grave, 1968.

Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
[The Joy of Sales Resistance; Conservation and Local Economy; Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse; Conservation is Good Work; A Bad Big Idea; The Problem of Tobacco; Peaceableness Toward Enemies; Christianity and the Survival of Creation; Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community]

Standing by Words. San Francisco: North Point, 1983 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005).
[The Specialization of Poetry; Standing by Words; People, Land, and Community; Notes: Unspecializing Poetry; Poetry and Place; Poetry and Marriage]

Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Photographs by James Baker Hall. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 2004.

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.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977; Avon Books, 1978; Sierra Club, 1986.
[The Unsettling of America; The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character; The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Culture; The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture; Living in the Future: The "Modern" Industrial Ideal; The Use of Energy; The Body and the Earth; Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust; Margins]

The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. essays
[Secrecy vs. Rights; Contempt for Small Places; Rugged Individualism; We Have Begun; Some Notes for the Kerry Campaign, If Wanted; Compromise, Hell!; Charlie Fisher; Imagination in Place; The Way of Ignorance; The Purpose of a Coherent Community; Quantity vs. Form; Renewing Husbandry; Agriculture from the Roots Up; Local Knowledge in the Age of Information; The Burden of the Gospels; Letter to Daniel Kemmis; Daniel Kemmis Replies; The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement, by Courtney White]

What Are People For? New York: North Point, 1990.
[Damage; Healing; A Remarkable Man; Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands; A Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey; Wallace Stegner and the Great Community; A Poem of Difficult Hope; Style and Grace; Writer and Region; The Responsibility of the Poet; God and Country; A Practical Harmony; An Argument for Diversity; What Are People For?; Waste; Economy and Pleasure; The Pleasures of Eating; The Work of Local Culture; Why I Am Not Going To Buy a Computer; Feminism, the Body, and the Machine; Word and Flesh; Nature As Measure]

Fiction

A Consent. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1993.

Andy Catlett: Early Travels.Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.

The Discovery of Kentucky. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1991.

That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.
[The Hurt Man, Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work, A Consent, Pray Without Ceasing, Watch With Me, A Half-Pint of Old Darling, The Lost Bet, Thicker than Liquor, Nearly to the Fair, The Solemn Boy, A Jonquil for Mary Penn, Turn Back the Bed, Making It Home, Where Did They Go?, The Discovery of Kentucky, It Wasn't Me, The Boundary, That Distant Land, A Friend of Mine, The Wild Birds, Are You Alright?, Fidelity, The Inheritors]

Fidelity. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
[Pray without Ceasing, A Jonquil for Mary Penn, Making It Home, Fidelity, Are You All Right?]

Hannah Coulter. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004.

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

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

Nathan Coulter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960 (revised North Point, 1985).

A Place on Earth. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, 1967 (revised North Point,1983; Counterpoint, 2001).

Remembering. San Francisco: North Point, 1988.

Sonata at Payne Hollow. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2001.

Three Short Novels [Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002.

Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1997.
[A Friend of Mine, The Inheritors]

Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. New York: Pantheon, 1994.
[A Consent, A Half-Pint of Old Darling, The Lost Bet, Nearly to the Fair, The Solemn Boy, Turn Back the Bed, Watch with Me]

The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco: North Point , 1986.
[Thicker Than Liquor, Where Did They Go?, It Wasn't Me, The Boundary, That Distant Land, The Wild Birds]

A World Lost. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.

Poetry

The Broken Ground. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1964.

Clearing. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1977.

The Collected Poems, 1957-1982. San Francisco: North Point, 1985.

The Country of Marriage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1973.

An Eastward Look. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1974.

Entries. New York: Pantheon, 1994 (reprint Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997).

The Farm. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1995.

Farming: A Hand Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.

Findings. Iowa City, Iowa: Prairie, 1968.

Given: New Poems. Washington D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005. poems

Horses. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1974.

The Kentucky River. Monterey, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1975.

November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three. New York: Braziller, 1964.

Openings. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968.

A Part. San Francisco: North Point, 1980.

Sabbaths: Poems. San Francisco: North Point, 1987.

Sabbaths 2002. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2004.

Sayings and Doings. Lexington, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1975.

The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999.

There Is Singing Around Me. Austin: Cold Mountain Press, 1976.

A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998.

Three Memorial Poems. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1977.

To What Listens. Crete, Nebraska: Best Cellar, 1975.

Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point 1989.

The Wheel. San Francisco, North Point, 1982.

Window Poems. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007.

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