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Works: Alphabetical

This list is not absolutely 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.


 

Andy Catlett: Early Travels.Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.
Another Turn of the Crank. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Ed. Norman Wirzba. Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 2002.
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2017. 
 

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion & Forgiveness. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food.
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009.
The Broken Ground
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1964. 

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

The Discovery of Kentucky. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1991.
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004.
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Ed. Chad Wriglesworth. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014.

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

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

The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural. San Francisco: North Point, 1981 (Counterpoint, 2009).
Given: New Poems. Washington D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2005.
The Great Interruption: The Story of a Famous Story of Old Port William and How It Ceased to be Told (1935-1978). Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2019.
 

Hannah Coulter. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard. 2004.
Harlan Hubbard: Life and Work. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 1990.
The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970 (North Point, 1989).
Home Economics: Fourteen Essays. San Francisco: North Point, 1987 (Counterpoint, 2009).
Horses. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1974.
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership. Counterpoint, 2022.

Imagination in Place. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010.
In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Barrington, MA: Orion, 2001.
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012. 

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

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

Leavings. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010.
Life Is a Miracle
. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.
The Long-Legged House. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1969 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).

The Mad Farmer Poems. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008.
The Memory of Old Jack. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 1974. (revised Counterpoint 2001). 

Nathan Coulter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960 (revised North Point, 1985).
The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Shoemaker & Company, 2022.
New Collected Poems. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012.
November twenty six nineteen hundred sixty three. New York: Braziller, 1964.

Openings. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968.
Our Only World: Ten Essays. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015.

A Part. San Francisco: North Point, 1980. 
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2012.
A Place on Earth. Boston: Harcourt, Brace, 1967 (revised North Point,1983 and Counterpoint, 2001).
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2011. 

Recollected Essays, 1965-1980. San Francisco: North Point, 1981.
Remembering. San Francisco: North Point, 1988.
The Rise. Lexington, Kentucky: Grave, 1968.
Roots To The Earth. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016

Sabbaths: Poems. San Francisco: North Point, 1987.
Sabbaths 1987. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 1991.
Sabbaths 2002. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2004.
Sabbaths 2006. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2008.
Sabbaths 2013. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2015.
Sabbaths 2016. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2018.
Sayings and Doings. Lexington, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1975.
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999.
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community. New York: Pantheon, 1992.
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with "The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation". Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016.
Sonata at Payne Hollow. Monterey, Kentucky: Larkspur, 2001.
Standing by Words. San Francisco: North Point, 1983 (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005).
Standing on Earth: Selected Essays. Ipswich, UK: Golgonooza Press, 1991.

Terrapin and Other Poems. Illustrated by Tom Pohrt. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2014.
There Is Singing Around Me. Austin: Cold Mountain Press, 1976.
This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New 1979-2013. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2013.
Three Memorial Poems. Berkeley, California: Sand Dollar, 1977.
Three Short Novels [Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A World Lost]. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002.
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1998.
Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy. Photographs by James Baker Hall. Lexington, Kentucky: U P of Kentucky, 2004.
To What Listens. Crete, Nebraska: Best Cellar, 1975.
Traveling at Home. Press Alley, 1988; North Point 1989.
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon, 1997. 

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. 

Watch With Me and Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, Née Quinch. New York: Pantheon, 1994.
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990. Ed. Jack Shoemaker. New York: Library of America, 2019.
Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017. Ed. Jack Shoemaker. New York: Library of America, 2019.
Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II. Ed. Jack Shoemaker. New York: Library of America, 2018.
What Are People For? New York: North Point, 1990.
What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010.
The Wheel. San Francisco, North Point, 1982.
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009.
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership. San Francisco: North Point, 1986.
Window Poems. Washington, D. C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007.
A World Lost. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry. Selected by Paul Kingsnorth. UK: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2017.

compiled by Tom Murphy, O. Carm., Chicago, IL

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