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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 January 2, 2022.
1. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066
2. Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203224
3. The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271
4. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
5. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $12, 9780063137998
6. Home Body
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486808
7. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
8. Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
Louise Glück, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 9780374604103
9. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781449486792
10. Clarity & Connection
Yung Pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781524860486
11. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Storey Publishing, $14.95, 9781635863864
12. The Best American Poetry 2021
Tracy K. Smith, David Lehman (Eds.), Scribner, $20, 9781982106638
13. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839
14. Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood, Ecco, $16.99, 9780063032507
15. Books and Libraries: Poems
Andrew Scrimgeour, Everyman's Library, $15.95, 9780593320198
16. What Kind of Woman: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780063008427
17. Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!: An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year
Fiona Waters (Ed.), Britta Teckentrup (Illus.), Nosy Crow, $40, 9781536217186
18. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark, Vintage, $20, 9780307951267
19. The Lost Spells
Robert MacFarlane, Jackie Morris (Illus.), Anansi International, $26, 9781487007799
20. Goldenrod: Poems
Maggie Smith, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $20, 9781982185060
21. Whale Day: And Other Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $17, 9780399589775
22. An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy Harjo, Norton, $15.95, 9780393358483
23. Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems
Natalie Diaz, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450147
24. The Rodent Not Taken
Jennifer McCartney, Countryman Press, $12.95, 9781682686638
25. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $16, 9781556594953