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 Poetry Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending September 3, 2023.

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

2. Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong, Penguin Books, $17, 9780593300251

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271

10. Call Us What We Carry: Poems
Amanda Gorman, Viking, $24.99, 9780593465066

11. Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition
Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton (Trans.), Norton, $20, 9781324050728

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

13. The Hurting Kind: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $24, 9781639550494

14. Above Ground: Poems
Clint Smith, Little, Brown, $27, 9780316543033

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

16. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama, Norton, $27.95, 9781324035473

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

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

19. Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limón, Milkweed Editions, $16, 9781571314710

20. Cat Poems
Tynan Kogane (Ed.), New Directions, $11.95, 9780811227506

21. You Better Be Lightning
Andrea Gibson, Button Poetry, $18, 9781943735990

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

23. And Yet: Poems
Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17, 9780063115552

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

25. So to Speak
Terrance Hayes, Penguin, $20, 9780143137726