Creative Nonfiction: Wendell Berry

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"Port William" Series – Novels and Short Stories:
Nathan Coulter (1985), A Place on Earth (2001), The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership (1986), Remembering (1988), Fidelity: Five Stories (1992), Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (1997), Jayber Crow: The Life Story of Jayber Crow, Barber, of the Port William Membership as Written by Himself (2000), That Distant Land: The Collected Stories of Wendell Berry (2002), Three Short Novels (2002), Hannah Coulter (2004), Andy Catlett: Early Travels (2006), A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership (2012)

Novels:
A Place on Earth (1969), The Memory of Old Jack (1974)

Short Stories:
Watch with Me: And Six Other Stories of the Yet-Remembered Ptolemy Proudfoot and His Wife, Miss Minnie, née Quinch (1994),
Stand by Me (2019)

Poetry:
November Twenty-six Nineteen Hundred Sixty-three (1964), The Broken Ground (1964), Openings: Poems (1968), Findings (1969), Farming: A Handbook (1970), The Country of Marriage (1973), An Eastward Look (1974), Reverdure: A Poem (1974), Horses (1975), To What Listens (1975), Sayings and Doings (1975), The Kentucky River: Two Poems (1976), There Is Singing around Me (1976), Clearing (1977), Three Memorial Poems (1977), The Gift of Gravity (1979), A Part (1980), The Salad (1980), Wendell Berry Reading His Poems (1980), The Wheel (1982), Collected Poems, 1957–1982 (1985), Sabbaths (1987), Sayings and Doings [and] An Eastward Look (1990), Entries: Poems (1994), The Farm (1995), The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1998), A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979–1997 (1998), Given: New Poems (2005), Leavings (2010), New Collected Poems (2012), This Day: Sabbath Poems Collected and New, 1979–2013 (2013), Roots to the Earth (2016)

Nonfiction:
The Rise (1968), The Long-Legged House (1969), The Hidden Wound (1970), Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1970), The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971, rev. 1991 & 2006), A Continuous Harmony (1972), Civilizing the Cumberland (1972), The Unsettling of America (1977), Recollected Essays, 1965–1980 (1981), The Gift of Good Land (1981), Standing by Words (1983), Meeting the Expectations of the Land (1984), Home Economics (1987), The Landscape of Harmony (1987), Traveling at Home (1988), Harland Hubbard: Life and Work (1990), What Are People For? (1990), Newcastle Today (1993), Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community (1993), Another Turn of the Crank (1995), A World Lost (1996), Waste Land (1997), A Place Not Forgotten (1999), Life Is a Miracle (2000), The Art of the Commonplace (2002), Citizenship Papers (2003), Citizen's Dissent (2003), Tobacco Harvest: An Elegy (2004), The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (2005), Blessed Are the Peacemakers (2005), A Sacred Trust (2006), Conversations with Wendell Berry (2007), Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (2009), Imagination in Place (2010), What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (2010), The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford (2011), It All Turns on Affection (2012), Our Only World (2015), A Small Porch (2016), The Art of Loading Brush (2017), The World-Ending Fire (2018), Think Little (2019)

This research guide was created by Emma Cowan, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, March 2025. 

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