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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "To know the dark" (1989) and follow publication order through all 46 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
To know the dark
1989
Stand By Me
2008
The Discovery Of Kentucky
1991
How Ptolemy Proudfoot Lost a Bet
1992
Whitefoot
2008
Broken Ground
1964
November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three
1964
Openings
1968
The rise
1968
Findings
1969
Farming, a Hand Book
1970
The Country of Marriage
1973
Sayings & Doings and an Eastward Look
1975
Horses
1975
Kentucky River
1975
Clearing
1977
The Salad
1980
The Wheel
1982
A Part
1983
The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
1985
The wild rose
1986
I go from the woods into the cleared field
1987
Sabbaths
1987
The Landscape Of Harmony
1987
Traveling at Home
1989
Fidelity
1992
Watch With Me
1994
Entries
1994
Three on Community
1996
A Timbered Choir
1998
The Selected Poems
1998
The Gift of Gravity
2003
Given
2005
Window Poems
2007
The Mad Farmer
2008
Leavings
2009
The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford
2011
New Collected Poems
2012
This Day
2013
Terrapin
2014
A Small Porch
2016
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
2017
The Peace of Wild Things
2018
The Farm
2018
Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows
2019
Another Day: Sabbath Poems, 2013-2023
2024
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