Wendell Berry

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1968
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Port William

The Memory of Old Jack (Sep-1975)
A Place on Earth (Apr-1983)
Remembering (Aug-1990)
Two More Stories of the Port William Membership (Jan-1997)
A World Lost (Sep-1997)
Jayber Crow (Sep-2001)
That Distant Land (May-2005)
Andy Catlett (Dec-2006)
Nathan Coulter (May-2008)
Whitefoot (Jan-2009)
A Place in Time (Oct-2012)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Openings

  • The Memory of Old Jack

    Port William

    Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.The story tells of the most searing moments of Old Jack’s life, particularly his...

  • Clearing

  • A Place on Earth

    Port William

    Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Mar...

  • The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership

    “Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don't get any better than these.” -- PeopleAs part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry comes this reissue ...

  • Remembering

    Port William

    A poetic novel of despair, hope, and the redemptive power of work deepens an award"winning author’s grand Port Williams literary project. After losing his hand in an accident, Andy Catlett confronts an agronomist whose surreal vision can see on...

  • What Are People For?

    Ranging from America’s insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America’s attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the...

  • Fidelity, Five Stories

    "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world...

  • Watch with Me

    This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and h...



  • Two More Stories of the Port William Membership

    Port William

    Fiction. Two stories of rural life from the author of WATCH WITH ME and FIDELITY, newly available in paperback from Gnomon. As a celebrator of the land and the turning of the seasons that govern us still, Wendell Berry is, indeed, our writer for all ...

  • A World Lost

    Port William

    In this, Wendell Berry’s fifth novel and ninth work of fiction, Andy Catlett revisits his own ninth year in the summer of 1944 when his beloved uncle is shot and killed by the surly and mysterious Carp Harmon. This is his Uncle Andrew, after whom t...

  • Jayber Crow

    Port William

    “This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town'...

  • Three Short Novels

  • The Art of the Commonplace

    "Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." -- The Washington Post Book WorldThe Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our d...

  • A Continuous Harmony

    "This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended―or used to. The language ranges...

  • Hannah Coulter

    Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now"elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two h...

  • That Distant Land

    Port William

    Originally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty"three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landsca...

  • Andy Catlett

    Port William

    A young boy takes a trip on his own to visit his grandparents in Kentucky in this luminous entry in the acclaimed Port William series.In this “eloquent distillation of Berry’s favorite themes: the importance of family, community and respect for t...

  • Nathan Coulter

    Port William

    Nathan Coulter, Wendell Berry’s first book, was published in 1960 when he was twenty"seven. In his first novel, the author presents his readers with their first introduction to what would become Berry’s life’s work, chronicling through fictio...



  • Whitefoot

    Port William

    Whitefoot is a field mouse, a small creature with "elegant whiskers” and a "reddish brindly tan” coat. She lives within a cozy enclave of family at the edge of the woods, where she knows, without a doubt, that she exists at the center of her wo...

  • A Place in Time

    Port William

    The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. This collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate Berry’s huge achievement. It feels as if the entire membership -- all...

  • The Mad Farmer Poems

    Wendell Baerry has become ''mad'' at contemporary society. Gleaned from various collections of this amazing American voice, the poems take the shape of manifestos, insults, and Whitmanic ravings that are often funny in spite of themselves. The whole ...

  • Terrapin

  • Wendell Berry

    Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writersFor more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portra...

  • Fidelity

    Reissued as part of Counterpoint's celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return readers to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight"knit co...

  • Stand By Me

    'A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life ... Short stories that link together like trees in a forest' Jackie MorrisOn a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred ...

  • How It Went

    Thirteen new stories of the Port William membership spanning the decades from World War II to the present momentFor those readers of his poetry and inspired by his increasingly vital work as advocate for rational land use and the right-size life, the...

  • Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years

    Library of America continues its definitive edition of Wendell Berry's complete fiction, including the novels The Memory of Old Jack and Remembering and 23 brilliant and beautiful storiesIn this second volume, Port William faces the disappearance of ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wendell Berry has published 28 books.

Wendell Berry does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Postwar Years, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Wendell Berry, Openings, was published in October 1968.

Yes. Wendell Berry has 1 series.
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