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Wendell Berry Books
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Nathan Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,853 ratings — published 1960
Jayber Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 23,335 ratings — published 2000
Hannah Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 22,922 ratings — published 2004
A Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,739 ratings — published 1966
The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)
by (shelved 32 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,146 ratings — published 1974
Remembering (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,482 ratings — published 1988
Fidelity: Five Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,096 ratings — published 1992
A World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,169 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 — 1,221 ratings — published 2002
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,554 ratings — published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,861 ratings — published 1977
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 976 ratings — published 1986
What Are People For? (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,923 ratings — published 1990
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)
by (shelved 20 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,772 ratings — published 2002
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,032 ratings — published 2009
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,998 ratings — published 2002
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,244 ratings — published 1993
The Hidden Wound (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,130 ratings — published 2005
Watch With Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 764 ratings — published 1994
Home Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 808 ratings — published 1987
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,323 ratings — published 2017
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.52 — 816 ratings — published 2013
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,697 ratings — published 1998
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 459 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 — 987 ratings — published 2015
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,287 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 — 579 ratings — published 1981
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 809 ratings — published 2005
The Country of Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.32 — 528 ratings — published 1973
The Long-Legged House (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.51 — 286 ratings — published 1966
The Mad Farmer Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.54 — 688 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 — 683 ratings — published 2022
Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 582 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 4.46 — 81 ratings — published 1997
Leavings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,082 ratings — published 2009
Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 914 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 — 341 ratings — published 2012
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,501 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 3.97 — 458 ratings — published 2016
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,794 ratings — published 1985
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.00 — 224 ratings — published 2008
Marce Catlett (A Port William Novel)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.03 — 739 ratings — published 2025
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,369 ratings — published 1987
The Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.56 — 271 ratings — published 1995
Farming: A Hand Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 352 ratings — published 1970
Three Short Novels: Nathan Coulter/Remembering/a World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.16 — 288 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 4.13 — 376 ratings — published 2005
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.27 — 339 ratings — published 2010
“Il ne nous suffit pas de comprendre nos obligations à l'égard des autres et de la terre; nous devons aussi les ressentir.”
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“From other stories that have been handed down to me I know that my people, like many others in the slave states, went to church with their slaves, were baptized with them, and presumably expected to associate with them in heaven. Again, I have been years realizing what this means, and what it has cost.
First, consider the moral predicament of the master who sat in church with his slaves, thus attesting his belief in the immortality of the souls of people whose bodies he owned and used. He thus placed his body, if not his mind, at the very crux of the deepest contradiction of his life. How could he presume to own the body of a man whose soul he considered as worthy of salvation as his own? To keep this question from articulating itself in his thoughts and demanding an answer, he had to perfect an empty space in his mind, a silence, between heavenly concerns and earthly concerns, between body and spirit. If there had ever opened a conscious connection between the two claims, if the two sides of his mind had ever touched, it would have been like building a fire in a house full of gunpowder: somewhere down deep in his mind he always knew of the danger, and his nerves were always alert to it.”
― The Hidden Wound
First, consider the moral predicament of the master who sat in church with his slaves, thus attesting his belief in the immortality of the souls of people whose bodies he owned and used. He thus placed his body, if not his mind, at the very crux of the deepest contradiction of his life. How could he presume to own the body of a man whose soul he considered as worthy of salvation as his own? To keep this question from articulating itself in his thoughts and demanding an answer, he had to perfect an empty space in his mind, a silence, between heavenly concerns and earthly concerns, between body and spirit. If there had ever opened a conscious connection between the two claims, if the two sides of his mind had ever touched, it would have been like building a fire in a house full of gunpowder: somewhere down deep in his mind he always knew of the danger, and his nerves were always alert to it.”
― The Hidden Wound
