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 4, 2025.
1. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20, 9780399563263
2. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $18.95, 9780393356250
3. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324076148
4. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $17, 9780143125839
5. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limón (Ed.), Milkweed Editions, $20, 9781571315694
6. 44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, W. W. Norton & Company, $27.99, 9781324086161
7. Water, Water: Poems
Billy Collins, Random House, $27, 9780593731024
8. Poems of Parenting
Loryn Brantz, William Morrow, $19.99, 9780063426436
9. Milk and Honey: 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $24.99, 9781524892876
10. Dream Work: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin Books, $17, 9780593832677
11. A Bit Much: Poems
Lyndsay Rush, St. Martin's Griffin, $18, 9781250323460
12. If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Refaat Alareer, OR Books, $24.99, 9781682196212
13. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
14. Forest of Noise: Poems
Mosab Abu Toha, Knopf, $22, 9780593803974
15. Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall
Stephanie Burt, Belknap Press, $29.95, 9780674273115
16. Kitchen Hymns
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Copper Canyon Press, $17, 9781556597107
17. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel Publishing, $16.99, 9781449486792
18. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506
19. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Books, $17, 9780593300251
20. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Storey Publishing, LLC, $14.99, 9781635863864
21. Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony for Grief
Joy Harjo, Ten Speed Press, $17.99, 9781984861368
22. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal
James Crews, Storey Publishing, LLC, $14.99, 9781635866445
23. New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, $19, 9780807068779
24. The Way Forward
yung pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $16.99, 9781524874834
25. The Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $19.99, 9780061558894