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 May 1, 2022. 

1. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Press, $24, 9780593300237

2. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066

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

4. Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
Amanda Gorman, Loren Long (Illus.), Viking Books for Young Readers, $18.99, 9780593203224

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

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

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

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

9. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
Warsan Shire, Random House, $17, 9780593134351

10. The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy
James Crews (Ed.), Storey Publishing, $14.95, 9781635865332

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

12. Clarity & Connection
Yung Pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781524860486

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

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

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

16. I Hope This Finds You Well: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $12, 9780063137998

17. Customs: Poems
Solmaz Sharif, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450796

18. What Kind of Woman: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780063008427

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

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

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

22. Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood, Ecco, $16.99, 9780063032507

23. unlock your storybook heart
Amanda Lovelace, ladybookmad, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781524851958

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

25. Deaf Republic: Poems
Ilya Kaminsky, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555978310