Wendell Berry Books In Order
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Nathan Coulter | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Wild Birds | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Remembering | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A World Lost | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Jayber Crow | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
That Distant Land | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hannah Coulter | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Andy Catlett | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Place in Time | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Port William Membership Books
A Place on Earth | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Memory of Old Jack | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
How It Went | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of New Patriotism Books
In the Presence of Fear | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Patriotism and the American Land | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Open Space of Democracy | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Citizens Dissent | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
To know the dark | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stand By Me | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Discovery Of Kentucky | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Whitefoot | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Long-Legged House | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Hidden Wound | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Unforeseen Wilderness | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Continuous Harmony | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Agricultural Crisis | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Unsettling of America | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Gift of Good Land | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Standing by Words | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Preserving wildness | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Home Economics | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
From the Heartlands | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Harlan Hubbard | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What Are People For? | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Standing on Earth | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Another Turn of the Crank | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Life is a Miracle | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Art of the Commonplace | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Citizenship Papers | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Blessed are the Peacemakers | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Conversations with Wendell Berry | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bringing it to the Table | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Imagination in Place | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What Matters? | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
It All Turns on Affection | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Our Only World | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Roots to the Earth | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Art of Loading Brush | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The World-Ending Fire | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The City and the Farm Crisis | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
What I Stand On | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Essays, 1993-2017 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Think Little | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Need to Be Whole | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Listening for God, Vol. 2 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Listening for God, Vol. 3 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Listening For God, Vol. 4 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Culture of the Land Books
Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wendell Berry: Life and Work | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The Vandana Shiva Reader | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Born on August 5, 1934, Wendell Berry is a well known and highly respected 82-year old novelist, environmental activist and poet. He also has made his impression in the field of farming and also as a cultural critic. He is certainly a prolific writer and has written a number of short stories, poems, novels and also essays on a variety of subjects. He has over the last few decades been able to leave behind a rich treasure of writings which according to critics will continue to inspire and interest generations of readers for many decades to come. It would also be pertinent to mention here that Berry has rightly and deservingly become a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He also is the recipient of the famous National Humanities Medal. Additionally he also was the Jefferson Lecturer in the year 2012. Additionally he also was the 2013 Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hence it would not be out of place to mention here that his talent has been recognized far and wide. He is the first writer who was inducted in to the famous Kentucky Writers Hall Of Fame and this award was presented to him in the year 2015. The Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award was also presented to him in the year 2013.
His Early Life
Berry was the eldest of four children of J. M. Berry who was a tobacco farmer and lawyer in Henry County, Kentucky. His mother’s name was Virginia Erdman Berry. After his primary and high schooling, Wendell Berry got his B.A and M.A degrees in English from the University Of Kentucky. In 1956 he met Gurney Norman who also would become a writer over a period of time. He got married to Tanya Amyx in the year 1958. His first novel was published in the year 1960 and it was named Nathan Couiter. This was the starting of the journey of Berry, as a writer. Help came from many quarters for this budding writer and author. With the help John Simon Guggenhelm Memorial Foundation Fellowship Berry was able to move to Italy and France along with his family.
In these two countries he was referred by his pen name Wallace Fowlie. He took an active part as a translator and critic of French literature. He spent the year 1962 to 1964 as an English professor in New York University at their University College in Bronx. During these years started honing his writing skills apart from developing their faming skills in a farm which he purchased. He has had a very wide and highly successful writing career and during the 1970s and early 1980s. He wrote for the Rodale Press which included writings and editing for its publications named Organic Gardening And Farming and also The New Form. This was because of his attachment and liking for farming in general and preservation of the environment in particular.
Books Written By Berry
Berry has written more than forty books covering fiction, poetry and essays. The list is quite big and it certainly would not be possible to list down the name of each and every book. However, he had a distinct and unique style of writing and touch based on subject matters which are of concern to us as far as our day to day existence and survival is concerned. Many of his books espouse a strong cause for environmental protection and preserving the diversity of flora and fauna across the globe. It also would be pertinent to mention that he has taken part in many movements against activities which perhaps are detrimental to the cause of preserving of our environment. These thoughts find strong reference in his fictions, poems and essays. We will have a look at two such books from the big list of books which he has written.
Andy Catlett: Early Travels
This book is a part of his Port William Series and is centered round a character called Any Catlett. He is seen visiting a place where he has been many times before. Andy is a nine year old lad and therefore the trip for him is an adventure and he is very serious about it. He strongly believes that this trip will be a learning experience and perhaps will take him to the first stage of transformation from childhood to adulthood. The entire book is written against the backdrop of the Christmas season of 1943, and his experiences and learning during this trip have been well brought out in this book. The book wonderfully brings out the way in which the old is giving way to the new. The books moves on and Andy become an adult and looks back poignantly over the years which he spent visiting this new place. Superbly written, there is hardly any doubt that this is one of the best books of Wendell Berry.
Whitefoot
This is another wonderful book of Berry and it revolves around a mouse which is famous for its elegant whiskers and the reddish tan skin. She is happy living in the edge of a wood and for her this is well and truly the center of the world round which she survives and moves from one day to another. However, she is unaware of the fact that not very far from her house is a big river. It is so big that she as a rat is not able to fathom its size and magnitude. A flash of flood one day uproots her from her house and she is thrust into a world of adventure. She has to use all her skills at her disposal to survive and stay alive. It is a superb depiction of survival against all odds and the fact that it comes with original drawings by famous artist Davis Te Selle makes it even more interesting and unputdownable to say the least.
The above are just two of the many books of Berry. Each of his books is unique and different from the others and deals at different aspects of life. His poetries and essays are also amazingly well written and make very interesting reading to say the least.
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