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 4, 2026.
1. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20, 9780593979419
2. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
3. How About Now: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $18, 9780063306080
4. You Better Be Lightning
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $18, 9781943735990
5. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
6. Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $28, 9781639550517
7. Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
Mary Oliver, Grand Central Publishing, $23.99, 9780306835810
8. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143125839
9. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324076148
10. Take Me With You
Andrea Gibson, Plume, $18, 9780735219519
11. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House Trade Paperbacks, $17, 9780593731048
12. The Best American Poetry 2025 (The Best American Poetry Series)
David Lehman, Terence Winch (Eds.), Scribner, $20, 9781668080597
13. Lord of the Butterflies
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $18, 9781943735426
14. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
Tracy K. Smith, W. W. Norton & Company, $24, 9781324050988
15. House of Light: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9798217061433
16. Same: Poems
Hannah Rosenberg, St. Martin's Griffin, $18, 9781250393791
17. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506
18. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571315694
19. Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons
Anonymous, Washington Square Press, $24, 9781668062555
20. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
21. A Child's Christmas in Wales
Dylan Thomas, New Directions, $9.95, 9780811231879
22. The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Homer, Robert Fagles (Transl.), Penguin, $20, 9780140268867
23. Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Maya Angelou, Steve Johnson (Illus.), Lou Fancher (Illus.), Anne Schwartz Books, $19.99, 9780593518618
24. New and Selected Poems
Marie Howe, W. W. Norton & Company, $17.99, 9781324117674
25. The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $60, 9780374235239