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The Indie Poetry Bestseller List
Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 30, 2017.
1. Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449474256
2. The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
Kwame Alexander, HMH Books for Young Readers, $14.99, 9780544570979
3. Envelope Poems
Emily Dickinson, New Directions, $12.95, 9780811225823
4. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Kwame Alexander, Candlewick Press, $16.99, 9780763680947
5. Blue Horses: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143127819
6. Moo
Sharon Creech, Harper, $16.99, 9780062415240
7. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $16, 9780143125839
8. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
9. The Rain in Portugal
Billy Collins, Random House, $26, 9780679644064
10. The Princess Saves Herself in This One
Amanda Lovelace, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9781449486419
11. Felicity
Mary Oliver, Penguin Press, $24.95, 9781594206764
12. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $18, 9780807068779
13. French Love Poems
New Directions, $11.95, 9780811225595
14. Aimless Love
Billy Collins, Random House, $17, 9780812982671
15. The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran, Knopf, $15, 9780394404288
16. Bluets
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $16, 9781933517407
17. Whereas: Poems
Layli Long Soldier, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781555977672
18. There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Morgan Parker, Tin House Books, $14.95, 9781941040539
19. The Essential Rumi
Jalal al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks (Trans.), Harper, $16.99, 9780062509598
20. Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $16, 9781556594953
21. Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen, Ecco, $13.99, 9780061125614
22. A Thousand Mornings: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143124054
23. She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems
Caroline Kennedy, Grand Central, $15.99, 9781455564071
24. On Love
Charles Bukowski, Ecco, $15.99, 9780062420732
25. Poems That Make Grown Women Cry
Anthony Holden, Ben Holden, S&S, $18, 9781501121869