The American Booksellers Association’s specialized bestseller lists provide a current overview of what is selling in independent bookstores nationwide.
Here is the list of the best-selling independent poetry, 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 its flowers
Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel, $ 16.99, 9781449486792
7. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
James Crews, Floor Edition, $ 14.95, 9781635863864
8. Postcolonial love poem
Natalie Diaz, Graywolf Press, $ 16, 9781644450147
9. Clarity and connection
Yung Pueblo, Andrews McMeel, $ 16.99, 9781524860486
10. Dog songs
Mary Oliver, Penguin, $ 16, 9780143125839
11. The Odyssey
Homer, Emily Wilson, Norton, $ 18.95, 9780393356250
12. Lost spells
Robert MacFarlane, Jackie Morris (illus.), Anansi International, $ 26, 9781487007799
13. Night sky with exit injuries
Ocean Vuong, Copper Canyon Press, $ 16, 9781556594953
14. What kind of woman: poems
Kate Baer, Perennial Harper, $ 17, 9780063008427
15. 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. The comfort of others keeps me awake 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. Blues
Maggie Nelson, Wave Books, $ 16, 9781933517407
21. When the light of the world was dimmed, our songs were heard: A Norton Anthology of the Poetry of the Indigenous Nations
Joy Harjo (ed.), Norton, $ 19.95, 9780393356809
22. The Iliad
Homer, Robert Fagles, Penguin, $ 19, 9780140275360
23. Living Nations, Living Words: Anthology of the Poetry of the First Peoples
Joy Harjo (ed.), Norton, $ 15, 9780393867916
24. Dearly: New poems
Margaret Atwood, Ecco, $ 27.99, 9780063032491
25. Transport: poems
Ada Limón, Asclépiades editions, $ 16, 9781571315137
