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 September 1, 2024.

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

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

3. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $19.99, 9781324076148

4. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, Donald D. Walsh (Transl.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293

12. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Norton, $17.99, 9781324074809

13. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin, $17, 9780593300251

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

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

16. Bluff: Poems
Danez Smith, Graywolf Press, $18, 9781644452981

17. The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $19.99, 9780061558894

18. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
Joy Sullivan, Dial Press, $17, 9780593597613

19. Bluets
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $16, 9781933517407

20. Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571314710

21. The Pocket Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Shambhala, $16.95, 9781645473084

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

23. The Carrying: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571315137

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

25. The Hurting Kind
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $24, 9781639550494