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Wendell Berry Books
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Nathan Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,522 ratings — published 1960
Jayber Crow (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 22,188 ratings — published 2000
Hannah Coulter (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 21,626 ratings — published 2004
A Place on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,599 ratings — published 1966
Remembering (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,378 ratings — published 1988
The Memory of Old Jack: A Novel (Port William)
by (shelved 33 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,953 ratings — published 1974
Fidelity: Five Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,995 ratings — published 1992
A World Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,072 ratings — published 1996
A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,177 ratings — published 2002
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,451 ratings — published 2006
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,703 ratings — published 1977
The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 905 ratings — published 1986
What Are People For? (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,872 ratings — published 1990
That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)
by (shelved 20 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,732 ratings — published 2002
The Hidden Wound (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,108 ratings — published 2005
Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,021 ratings — published 2009
Watch With Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 710 ratings — published 1994
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,218 ratings — published 1993
The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,636 ratings — published 1998
Home Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.21 — 797 ratings — published 1987
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,971 ratings — published 2002
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,175 ratings — published 2017
Our Only World: Ten Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.20 — 979 ratings — published 2015
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.51 — 790 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Loading Brush: New Agrarian Writings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 448 ratings — published
Standing by Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.16 — 327 ratings — published 1982
Given (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.23 — 893 ratings — published 2005
Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,260 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 — 569 ratings — published 1981
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 801 ratings — published 2005
The Country of Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.31 — 512 ratings — published 1973
The Long-Legged House (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.50 — 282 ratings — published 1966
The Mad Farmer Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.54 — 665 ratings — published 2008
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.38 — 639 ratings — published
A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.97 — 443 ratings — published 2016
New Collected Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.46 — 717 ratings — published 2012
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.45 — 80 ratings — published 1997
Leavings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,059 ratings — published 2009
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 333 ratings — published 2012
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,476 ratings — published
Think Little: Essays (Counterpoints Series)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.43 — 542 ratings — published
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,788 ratings — published 1985
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World (Port William)
by (shelved 9 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.99 — 219 ratings — published 2008
The Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.55 — 260 ratings — published 1995
Farming: A Hand Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 346 ratings — published 1970
Three Short Novels (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.17 — 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 4.13 — 370 ratings — published 2005
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 336 ratings — published 2010
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 4.28 — 248 ratings — published 1972
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as wendell-berry)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,124 ratings — published 1987
“At this point, I want to say point-blank what I hope is already clear: though agrarianism proposes that everybody has agrarian responsibilities, it does not propose that everybody should be a farmer or that we do not need cities. Nor does it propose that every product be a necessity. Furthermore, any thinkable human economy would have to grant to manufacturing an appropriate and honorable place. Agrarians would insist only that any manufacturing enterprise should be formed and scaled to fit the local landscape, the local ecosystem, and the local community, and that it should be locally owned and employ local people. They would insist, in other words, that the shop or factory owner should not be an outsider, but rather a sharer in the fate of the place and the community. The deciders should live with the results of their decisions.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“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
