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Marce Catlett (Port William, #11) was the most recently released book by Wendell Berry, on October 7th, 2025.

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Wendell Berry Stats: The highest rated book by Wendell Berry on Book Notification is Hannah Coulter, the 8th novel in the Port William series.

The most read book by Wendell Berry on Book Notification is Hannah Coulter, the 8th novel in the Port William series. The second most read book is Jayber Crow (Port William #6).

Below is a complete list of Wendell Berry books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Wendell Berry is the Port William Series.

List of Port William Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Port William books are Hannah Coulter, Jayber Crow, and Nathan Coulter.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
Nathan Coulter
1960
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2
4
The Wild Birds
1986
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3
Remembering
1988
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4
4
A World Lost
1996
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5
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership
1997
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6
9
Jayber Crow
2000
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7
That Distant Land
2002
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8
8
Hannah Coulter
2004
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9
Andy Catlett
2006
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10
Whitefoot
2008
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11
A Place in Time
2013
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12
Marce Catlett
2025
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List of Port William Membership Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7.3
A Place on Earth
1966
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2
8.7
The Memory of Old Jack
1974
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3
How It Went
2022
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List of New Patriotism Books in Publication Order (with Richard Nelson, with Terry Tempest Williams)

Explores patriotism, cultural recovery, and citizen responsibility in response to contemporary crises.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
In the Presence of Fear
2001
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2
Patriotism and the American Land ( By: Richard Nelson)
2002
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3
The Open Space of Democracy (By: Terry Tempest Williams)
2004
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4
Citizens Dissent
2006
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List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
To know the dark
1989
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2
Stand By Me
2008
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Discovery Of Kentucky
1991
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2
How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet
1992
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3
Whitefoot
2008
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List of Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top collections are Fidelity, Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023, and The Selected Poems.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Broken Ground
1964
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2
November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three
1964
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3
Openings
1968
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4
The rise
1968
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5
Findings
1969
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6
Farming, a Hand Book
1970
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7
The Country of Marriage
1973
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8
Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look
1975
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9
Horses
1975
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10
Kentucky River
1975
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11
Clearing
1977
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12
The Salad
1980
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13
The Wheel
1982
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14
A Part
1983
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15
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
1985
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16
The wild rose
1986
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17
I go from the woods into the cleared field
1987
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18
Sabbaths
1987
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19
The Landscape Of Harmony
1987
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20
Traveling at Home
1989
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21
10
Fidelity
1992
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22
Watch With Me
1994
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23
Entries
1994
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24
Three on Community
1996
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25
A Timbered Choir
1998
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26
The Selected Poems
1998
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27
The Gift of Gravity
2003
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28
Given
2005
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29
Window Poems
2007
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30
The Mad Farmer
2008
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31
Leavings
2009
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32
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
2011
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33
New Collected Poems
2012
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34
This Day
2013
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35
Terrapin
2014
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36
A Small Porch
2016
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37
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
2017
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38
The Peace of Wild Things
2018
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39
The Farm
2018
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40
Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows
2019
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41
Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023
2024
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Bringing it to the Table, Our Only World, and The Hidden Wound.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Long-Legged House
1966
Go
2
8
The Hidden Wound
1970
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3
The Unforeseen Wilderness
1971
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4
A Continuous Harmony
1972
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5
The Agricultural Crisis
1977
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6
The Unsettling of America
1977
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7
The Gift of Good Land
1981
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8
Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
1981
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9
Standing by Words
1982
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10
Preserving wildness
1986
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11
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
1987
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12
Home Economics
1987
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13
From the Heartlands
1988
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14
Harlan Hubbard
1990
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15
What Are People For?
1990
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16
Standing on Earth
1991
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17
Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community
1993
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18
Another Turn of the Crank
1995
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19
Life is a Miracle
2000
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20
The Art of the Commonplace
2002
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21
Citizenship Papers
2003
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22
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
2005
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23
Blessed are the Peacemakers
2005
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24
Bringing it to the Table
2009
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25
Imagination in Place
2010
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26
What Matters?
2010
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27
It All Turns on Affection
2012
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28
Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder
2014
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29
Our Only World
2015
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30
Roots to the Earth
2016
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31
A Conversation Between Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson
2017
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32
The Art of Loading Brush
2019
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33
The World-Ending Fire
2019
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34
The City and the Farm Crisis
2019
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35
What I Stand On
2019
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36
Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990
2019
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37
Essays, 1993-2017
2019
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38
Think Little
2019
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39
The Need to Be Whole
2022
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List of Literary Conversations Books in Publication Order

Conversations with famous literary figures, providing insight into their lives and work.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges
1969
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2
Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz
1981
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3
Conversations with Graham Greene
1983
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4
Conversations with Eudora Welty
1985
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5
Conversations with Walker Percy
1985
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6
Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer
1985
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7
Conversations with William Styron
1985
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8
Conversations with Malcolm Cowley
1986
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9
Conversations with Lillian Hellman
1986
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10
Conversations with Tennessee Williams
1986
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11
Conversations with Ernest Hemingway
1986
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12
Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter
1987
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13
Truman Capote: Conversations
1987
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14
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
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15
Conversations with Peter Taylor
1987
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16
Conversations with Arthur Miller
1987
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17
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
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18
Conversations with Edward Albee
1988
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19
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell
1988
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20
Conversations with Norman Mailer
1988
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21
Conversations with Robert Graves
1989
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22
Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates
1989
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23
Conversations with Shelby Foote
1989
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24
Conversations with Robertson Davies
1989
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25
Conversations with James Baldwin
1989
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26
Conversations with John Gardner
1990
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27
Conversations with Richard Wilbur
1990
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28
Conversations with Tom Wolfe
1990
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29
Conversations with Raymond Carver
1990
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30
Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
1990
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31
Conversations with Reynolds Price
1991
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32
Conversations with Bernard Malamud
1991
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33
Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer
1991
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34
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
1992
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35
Conversations With Thornton Wilder
1992
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36
Conversations with Robert Coles
1992
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37
Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher
1992
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38
More Conversations with Walker Percy
1993
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39
Conversations with Richard Wright
1993
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40
Conversations with Paul Bowles
1993
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41
Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1994
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42
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
1994
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43
10
Conversations with Toni Morrison
1994
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44
Conversations with Saul Bellow
1994
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45
Conversations with Henry Miller
1994
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46
Conversations With S.J. Perelman
1995
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47
Conversations with Ernest Gaines
1995
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48
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
1995
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49
Conversations with Chester Himes
1995
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50
Conversations with Susan Sontag
1995
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51
Conversations with Ishmael Reed
1995
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52
Conversations with Derek Walcott
1996
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53
More Conversations with Eudora Welty
1996
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54
Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop
1996
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55
Conversations with Pauline Kael
1996
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56
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
1997
Go
57
Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
1997
Go
58
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
1997
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59
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
1998
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60
Conversations with Denise Levertov
1998
Go
61
Conversations With William Faulkner
1999
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62
Conversations with E. L. Doctorow
1999
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63
Conversations With John Fowles
1999
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64
Conversations with Salman Rushdie
2000
Go
65
Conversations with William S. Burroughs
2000
Go
66
Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko
2000
Go
67
Conversations with Chaim Potok
2001
Go
68
Conversations with Richard Ford
2001
Go
69
Conversations with Christopher Isherwood
2001
Go
70
Conversations with Mary Gordon
2002
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71
Conversations with Jim Harrison
2002
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72
Conversations with Clarence Major
2002
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73
Conversations with Margaret Walker
2002
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74
Conversations with Erica Jong
2002
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75
Elie Wiesel: Conversations
2002
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76
Joseph Brodsky: Conversations
2003
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77
Conversations with Rita Dove
2003
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78
7.3
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald
2003
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79
Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks
2003
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80
Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann
2003
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81
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
2004
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82
Conversations with Audre Lorde
2004
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83
Conversations with Ray Bradbury
2004
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84
Conversations With John le Carré
2004
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85
Conversations with Isaac Asimov
2005
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86
Conversations with Don DeLillo
2005
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87
Conversations with Gore Vidal
2005
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88
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
2005
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89
Conversations with Jack Kerouac
2005
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90
Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez
2005
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91
Conversations with Thomas McGuane
2006
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92
Conversations with Larry Brown
2007
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93
Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
2007
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94
Conversations with Wendell Berry
2007
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95
Conversations with Leon Forrest
2007
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96
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
2008
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97
Conversations with Jimmy Carter
2023
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List of Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith Books in Publication Order

Explores modern stories and their connection to faith, showing how both shape our lives today.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1 (By: Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Garrison Keillor, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodríguez, Patricia Hampl, Peter Hawkins, Frederick Buechner, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
1994
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2
Listening for God, Vol. 2 (By: Anne Tyler, John Updike, Tobias Wolff, Gail Godwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Kathleen Norris, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Carol Bly, Andrew Dubus)
1996
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3
Listening for God, Vol. 3 (With: Tillie Olsen, John Cheever, Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Tess Gallagher, Reynolds Price, Oscar Hijuelos, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins)
2000
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4
Listening For God, Vol. 4 (By: Robert Olen Butler, Allegra Goodman, James Baldwin, Kent Haruf, Sue Miller, Doris Betts, Paula J. Carlson, Peter S. Hawkins, Michael Malone, Alice Elliot Dark)
2002
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List of Culture of the Land Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top Culture of the Land books are The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse, The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, and Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Strachan Donnelley, Ceara Donnelley, Bruce Jennings)
1970
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2
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics (By: Norman Wirzba, Vandana Shiva, Pramod Parajuli, Pankaj Jain, A. Whitney Sanford, Todd Levasseur, Mark H. Dixon, Ragan Sutterfield, Maximilian Abouleish-Boes, Yigal Deutscher, Leonor Hurtado, Tristan Reader, Eston Pembamoyo, Michael Lemons, Terrol Johnson, Jagannath Adhikari, Anna Peterson, Raymond F. Person)
1970
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3
Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (By: Whitney Sanford)
1970
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4
Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (By: Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack R. Baker)
1970
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5
Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms (By: Jeffrey Bilbro)
1970
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6
The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture (By: Albert Howard Sir)
1972
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7
The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics (By: Vandana Shiva)
1991
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8
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (By: Vandana Shiva)
2000
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9
From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (By: Gary Holthaus)
2006
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10
Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (By: Tom Shippey, Jonathan Evans, John Elder, Matthew Dickerson)
2006
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11
Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope (By: Eric T. Freyfogle)
2007
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12
Wendell Berry: Life and Work (By: Jason Peters)
2007
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13
The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse (By: Gene Logsdon)
2007
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14
The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (By: Wes Jackson, Bill Vitek)
2008
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15
Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality (By: Gary Holthaus)
2008
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16
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering by Craig Holdrege (By: Craig Holdrege)
2008
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17
Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis (By: David L. O'Hara, Matthew Dickerson)
2008
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18
Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life (By: Norman Wirzba, L. Roger Owens, Joel Shuman)
2009
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19
Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Constance L. Falk)
2010
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20
The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (By: Paul B. Thompson)
2010
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21
The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (By: Monica Weis)
2011
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22
The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love (By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger)
2011
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23
Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America (By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann, Laura Sayre, Sean Clark)
2011
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24
Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (By: Vandana Shiva, A. Whitney Sanford)
2011
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25
The Vandana Shiva Reader (With: Vandana Shiva)
2014
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26
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change (By: Anthony Flaccavento)
2016
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List of Wendell Berry Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Late Harvest
1991
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2
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
1994
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3
Odd Angles of Heaven: Contemporary Poetry by People of Faith
1994
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4
Listening for God, Vol. 2
1996
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5
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life
1999
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6
Listening for God, Vol. 3
2000
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7
Listening For God, Vol. 4
2002
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8
The Portable Sixties Reader
2003
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9
O Taste and See: Food Poems
2003
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10
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
2007
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11
Hope Beneath Our Feet
2010
Go
12
Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth
2015
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13
Letters to a Young Farmer
2017
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14
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia
2019
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15
Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together
2021
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Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry) was born on August 5th, 1934 and is currently 91 years old. Wendell Berry was born in Kentucky, USA.

Wendell Berry is the author of 41 Collections. The first collection published was Broken Ground, in 1964. The most recently published collection was Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023 which was released in 2024. There are no upcoming collections.

Wendell Berry has also written 39 Non-Fiction Books, including The Long-Legged House and The Hidden Wound.

Wendell Berry: Awards & Accolades

Wendell Berry has won multiple awards including: The Helmerich Award, Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, in 2012 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, in 2013.

Wendell Berry: Lists & Other Mentions

  • The Unsettling of America was an Oxford American: The Best Southern Nonfiction of All Time Selection in 2009.

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  1. Neil Gaiman, author of the American Gods Series.
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  4. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter Series.
  5. Louise Penny, author of the Inspector Gamache Series.

Wendell Berry: F.A.Q

When was Wendell Berry Born? How old is Wendell Berry?

Wendell Berry was born on August 5th, 1934. Wendell Berry is currently 91 years old.

Where was Wendell Berry Born?

Wendell Berry was born in Kentucky, USA and is American.

What awards has Wendell Berry won?

Wendell Berry has won the following awards: Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award at the Helmerich Award (2012) and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2013).

What was the first book Wendell Berry wrote?

The first book written by Wendell Berry was Nathan Coulter, published in 1960.

What was the most recent book Wendell Berry wrote?

His most recently released work was Marce Catlett on October 7th, 2025.

What is the most popular book by Wendell Berry?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Wendell Berry book is Hannah Coulter. Here are his most popular books:
  1. Hannah Coulter (8)
  2. Jayber Crow (9)
  3. The Memory of Old Jack (8.67)
  4. A Place on Earth (7.33)
  5. Fidelity (10)

Are there upcoming new books by Wendell Berry?

Wendell Berry does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

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How many books has Wendell Berry written?

Wendell Berry has written 103 books across 10 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 12 books in the Port William Series
  • 3 books in the Port William Membership Series
  • 2 books in the New Patriotism Series
  • 2 Standalone Novels
  • 3 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 41 Collections
  • 39 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Literary Conversations Series
  • 1 book in the Culture of the Land Series

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