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 5, 2025.

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

2. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024

3. Forest of Noise: Poems
Mosab Abu Toha, Knopf, $22, 9780593803974

4. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324076148

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

6. Milk and Honey: 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $24.99, 9781524892876

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

8. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $18.95, 9780393356250

9. Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023
Margaret Atwood, Knopf, $40, 9780593802649

10. A Bit Much: Poems
Lyndsay Rush, St. Martin's Griffin, $18, 9781250323460

11. Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift
Kristie Frederick Daugherty (Ed.), Ballantine Books, $26, 9780593982419

12. Dream Work
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780593832677

13. The Best American Poetry 2024
Mary Jo Salter, David Lehman (Eds.), Scribner, $20, 9781982186791

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

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

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

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

18. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Storey Publishing, LLC, $14.99, 9781635863864

19. she followed the moon back to herself
Amanda Lovelace, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $18.99, 9781524890032

20. For There Is Always Light: A Journal
Amanda Gorman, Clarkson Potter, $19.99, 9780593796894

21. Poems for Christmas
Gaby Morgan (Ed.), Macmillan Collector's Library, $14.99, 9781035049110

22. When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems
Joan Baez, David R. Godine Publisher, $25.95, 9781567928013

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

24. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, W. W. Norton & Company, $17.99, 9781324074809

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