Living the Good Life is a book by Helen and Scott Nearing about their self-sufficient homesteading project in Vermont.

It was originally published privately in 1954 and was republished in 1970 with Schocken Books and an introduction by Paul Goodman.

Schocken Books republished Living the Good Life from the original plates and with a foreword from Paul Goodman.

The book sold 50,000 copies its first year,[1] and became seminal in the late-20th-century American back-to-the-land movement,[4] putting the Nearings in the national spotlight.

[4] In 1995, The New York Times wrote that Living the Good Life remained "a modern day Walden" for those who tired of the city.