The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Poetry Bestseller List based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 28, 2024. 

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

2. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limón (Ed.), Milkweed Editions, $25, 9781571315687

3. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

4. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Watson (Transl.), Norton, $39.95, 9781324001805

5. The Way Forward
yung pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781524874834

6. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143125839

7. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking Books, $17.99, 9780593465080

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

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

10. Wrong Norma
Anne Carson, New Directions, $17.95, 9780811230346

11. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $17, 9780593300251

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

13. This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
Kwame Alexander (Ed.), Little, Brown and Company, $35, 9780316417525

14. A Year of Last Things: Poems
Michael Ondaatje, Knopf, $28, 9780593801567

15. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal
James Crews, Storey Publishing, LLC, $14.99, 9781635866445

16. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
Mosab Abu Toha, City Lights Books, $15.95, 9780872868601

17. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

18. Modern Poetry: Poems
Diane Seuss, Graywolf Press, $26, 9781644452752

19. The Orange and Other Poems
Wendy Cope, Faber & Faber, $14, 9780571389513

20. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
Joy Sullivan, Dial Press, $17, 9780593597613

21. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Norton, $17.99, 9781324074809

22. The Carrying: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571315137

23. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Storey Publishing, LLC, $14.95, 9781635863864

24. Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571314710

25. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506