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, 2026.
1. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), Norton, $18.95, 9780393356250
2. The Iliad
Homer, Emily Wilson (Transl.), W. W. Norton & Company, $19.99, 9781324076148
3. Devotions
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20.00, 9780399563263
4. The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Homer, Robert Fagles (Transl.), Penguin, $22.00, 9780140268867
5. Dog Songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $18.00, 9780143125839
6. You Better Be Lightning
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $18.00, 9781943735990
7. The Odyssey
Homer, University of Chicago Press, $18.95, 9780226849225
8. Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
Mary Oliver, Grand Central Publishing, $23.99, 9780306835810
9. Dog Show: Poems
Billy Collins, Pamela Sztybel (Illus.), Random House, $20.00, 9780593979419
10. The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation (Deluxe Edition)
Homer, Picador, $20.00, 9781250375445
11. The Aeneid
Virgil, Liveright, $22.99, 9781324098553
12. The Iliad
Homer, Robert Fagles (Trans.), Penguin, $21.00, 9780140275360
13. Dream Work: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin Books, $17.00, 9780593832677
14. The Odyssey (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Homer, Penguin Classics, $38.00, 9780143139379
15. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506
16. Love Poems
Pablo Neruda, New Directions, $11.95, 9780811217293
17. The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Homer, Penguin Classics, $27.00, 9780141192444
18. Homer's Odyssey: An Illustrated Retelling
Barry B. Powell, Clarkson Potter, $28.99, 9798217035564
19. House of Light: Poems
Mary Oliver, Penguin Books, $17.00, 9798217061433
20. Beowulf
Seamus Heaney (Trans.), Norton, $15.95, 9780393320978
21. A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems
Maggie Smith, Washington Square Press, $25.00, 9781668090053
22. Lord of the Butterflies
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $18.00, 9781943735426
23. Take Me With You
Andrea Gibson, Plume, $18.00, 9780735219519
24. Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $28.00, 9781639550517
25. The Odyssey
Homer, Penguin Classics, $19.00, 9780143039952