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Wendell Berry Books
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Jayber Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,877 ratings — published 2000
Hannah Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 23,474 ratings — published 2004
Nathan Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,000 ratings — published 1960
A Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,796 ratings — published 1966
The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)
by (shelved 32 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,227 ratings — published 1974
Remembering (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,515 ratings — published 1988
Fidelity: Five Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,145 ratings — published 1992
A World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,216 ratings — published 1996
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,245 ratings — published 2002
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,597 ratings — published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,913 ratings — published 1977
What Are People For? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,944 ratings — published 1990
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,000 ratings — published 1986
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)
by (shelved 20 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,794 ratings — published 2002
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,036 ratings — published 2009
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,004 ratings — published 2002
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,247 ratings — published 1993
The Hidden Wound (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,138 ratings — published 2005
Watch With Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 770 ratings — published 1994
Home Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 809 ratings — published 1987
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,368 ratings — published 2017
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.51 — 822 ratings — published 2013
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,707 ratings — published 1998
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 463 ratings — published
Standing by Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 333 ratings — published 1982
Our Only World: Ten Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.20 — 992 ratings — published 2015
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,296 ratings — published 2000
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 580 ratings — published 1981
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 811 ratings — published 2005
The Country of Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.32 — 531 ratings — published 1973
The Long-Legged House (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.52 — 289 ratings — published 1966
The Mad Farmer Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.55 — 697 ratings — published 2008
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.37 — 695 ratings — published 2022
Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 598 ratings — published
New Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.46 — 732 ratings — published 2012
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.47 — 81 ratings — published 1997
Leavings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,086 ratings — published 2009
Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 923 ratings — published 2005
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 343 ratings — published 2012
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,513 ratings — published 1998
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.98 — 461 ratings — published 2016
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,795 ratings — published 1985
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.99 — 226 ratings — published 2008
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.01 — 827 ratings — published 2025
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,437 ratings — published 1987
The Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.56 — 273 ratings — published 1995
Farming: A Hand Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 361 ratings — published 1970
Three Short Novels: Nathan Coulter/Remembering/a World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.16 — 289 ratings — published 2002
Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.14 — 378 ratings — published 2005
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.27 — 340 ratings — published 2010
“At start of spring I open a trench
In the ground. I put into it
The winter’s accumulation of paper,
Pages I do not want to read
Again, useless words, fragments,
errors. And I put into it
the contents of the outhouse:
light of the suns, growth of the ground,
Finished with one of their journeys.
To the sky, to the wind, then,
and to the faithful trees, I confess
my sins: that I have not been happy
enough, considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise,
have been inattentive to wonders,
have lusted after praise.
And then upon the gathered refuse,
of mind and body, I close the trench
folding shut again the dark,
the deathless earth. Beneath that seal
the old escapes into the new.”
― New Collected Poems
In the ground. I put into it
The winter’s accumulation of paper,
Pages I do not want to read
Again, useless words, fragments,
errors. And I put into it
the contents of the outhouse:
light of the suns, growth of the ground,
Finished with one of their journeys.
To the sky, to the wind, then,
and to the faithful trees, I confess
my sins: that I have not been happy
enough, considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise,
have been inattentive to wonders,
have lusted after praise.
And then upon the gathered refuse,
of mind and body, I close the trench
folding shut again the dark,
the deathless earth. Beneath that seal
the old escapes into the new.”
― New Collected Poems
“As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluenced by the real content of our history which we know only in a deep and guarded privacy, we are still in the throes of the paradox of the “gentleman and soldier.”
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
However conscious it may have been, there is no doubt in my mind that all this moral and verbal obfuscation is intentional. Nor do I doubt that its purpose is to shelter us from the moral anguish implicit in our racism—an anguish that began, deep and mute, in the minds of Christian democratic freedom-loving owners of slaves.”
― The Hidden Wound
