Wendell Berry's Work
Books and Chapbooks
Listed By Genre
Wendell Berry Links
For more information on individual
books, 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.
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
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