The Indie Poetry Bestseller List

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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 May 2, 2021.

 

1. The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $16, 9781556594953

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

13. 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

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

15. Black Girl, Call Home: Poems
Jasmine Mans, Berkley, $15, 9780593197141

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

17. Dog Poems
Christopher Wait, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811230599

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

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

20. Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450147

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

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

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

24. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay, University of Pittsburgh Press, $17, 9780822963318

25. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143124054

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