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 5, 2021.

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

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

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

4. Goldenrod: Poems
Maggie Smith, Atria/One Signal Publishers, $20, 9781982185060

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Ed.), Norton, $16.95, 9781324004615

16. Pilgrim Bell: Poems
Kaveh Akbar, Graywolf Press, $16, 9781644450598

17. Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night
Morgan Parker, Tin House Books, $16.95, 9781951142568

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

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

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

21. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Joy Harjo (Ed.), Norton, $19.95, 9780393356809

22. The Iliad
Homer, Robert Fagles (Trans.), Penguin, $19, 9780140275360

23. Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Joy Harjo (Ed.), Norton, $15, 9780393867916

24. Dearly: New Poems
Margaret Atwood, Ecco, $27.99, 9780063032491

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