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