John Berger: A Reading List
A selection of key works on or by one of the most influential authors of our time, John Berger

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Here we present a reading list of titles by or about Berger, including Joshua Sperling's new biography of Berger, in which he draws on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, as well as Berger's own writings on art, politics, poetry and more.
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger.
What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.
A lifetimeâs encounter with artists: from prehistoric cave painting to the present.
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by Berger.
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance.
In this illustrated color book Berger uses the imaginative space he creates to explore the process of drawing, politics, storytelling and Spinozaâs life and times.
Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant workerâthe material circumstances and the inner experienceâand, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it.
A beautiful edition of John Berger's first novel, a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives Aâida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, Aâidaâs letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers.
A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.
Published in conjunction with Stop the War coalition and United for Peace and Justice, War With No End provides an urgent, necessary reflection on the causes and consequences of the ideological War on Terror, including pieces by Phyllis Bennis, John Berger, Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Tram Nguyen, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco, Ahdaf Soueif, and Haifa Zangana.