The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

Here is the Indie Poetry Bestseller List, based on sales for the eight-week period ending January 3, 2021. 

 

1. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808

2. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263

3. Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood, Ecco, $27.99, 9780063032491

4. What Kind of Woman
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780063008427

5. The Lost Spells
Robert MacFarlane, Jackie Morris (Illus.), Anansi International, $26, 9781487007799

6. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Joy Harjo (Ed.), Norton, $19.95, 9780393356809

7. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792

8. Whale Day: And Other Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780399589751

9. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry
Barbara Kingsolver, Harper, $24.99, 9780062993083

10. Poems 1962-2012
Louise Glück, FSG, $22, 9780374534097

11. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256

12. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Ed.), Norton, $16.95, 9781324004615

13. Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley, MCD x FSG Originals, $15, 9780374110031

14. I Would Leave Me If I Could.: A Collection of Poetry
Halsey, S&S, $24.99, 9781982135607

15. The Wild Iris
Louise Glück, Ecco, $16.99, 9780880013345

16. An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy Harjo, Norton, $15.95, 9780393358483

17. African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young (Ed.), Library of America, $45, 9781598536669

18. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839

19. Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Glück, FSG, $16, 9780374535773

20. The Tradition
Jericho Brown, Copper Canyon Press, $17, 9781556594861

21. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Nikki Giovanni, Morrow, $19.99, 9780062995285

22. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Trans.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

23. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey, S&S, $24.99, 9781982167288

24. Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic
Alice Quinn (Ed.), Knopf, $27, 9780593318720

25. The Best American Poetry 2020
David Lehman, Paisley Rekdal (Eds.), Scribner, $20, 9781982106607