The Best Poetry Books of 2020

By Book Scrolling

The Best Poetry Books of 2020

By Book Scrolling

Based on the Book Scrolling list of The Best Poetry Books of 2020!

Titles are ranked top-down by the number of "Best 2020" book lists they appear on.

Additional 2020 Bookshop Lists:

All 2020 lists can be found now at Book Scrolling. Same with 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015 lists.

Homie: Poems

Danez Smith

$16.00 $14.89

6 Lists

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems

Natalie Diaz

$17.00 $15.81

5 Lists

Dearly: New Poems

Margaret Atwood

$27.99 $26.03

4 Lists

Obit

Victoria Chang

$17.00 $15.81

4 Lists

Finna: Poems

Nate Marshall

$17.00 $15.81

3 Lists

Home Body

Rupi Kaur

$16.99 $15.80

2 Lists

How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons): Poetry

Barbara Kingsolver

$24.99 $23.24

2 Lists

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

$30.00 $27.90

2 Lists

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

Nikki Giovanni

$19.99 $18.59

2 Lists

My Darling from the Lions

Alice Denham

$9.95

2 Lists

Rendang

Will Harris

$15.95 $14.83

2 Lists

Seeing the Body: Poems

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

$26.95 $25.06

2 Lists

The Age of Phillis

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

$26.95 $25.06

2 Lists

The Air Year

Caroline Bird

$16.99 $15.80

2 Lists

The Malevolent Volume

Justin Phillip Reed

$16.95 $15.76

2 Lists

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Lana del Rey

$28.00 $26.04

2 Lists

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

$19.95 $18.55

2 Lists

13th Balloon

Mark Bibbins

$17.00 $15.81

1 List

A Nail the Evening Hangs on

Monica Sok

$16.00 $14.88

1 List

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology

$45.00 $41.85

1 List

After Callimachus: Poems

Stephanie Burt

$29.94

1 List

All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

Morgan Harper Nichols

$18.99 $17.66

1 List

All Heathens

Marianne Chan

$15.95 $14.83

1 List

An Incomplete List of Names: Poems

Michael Torres

$15.00 $13.95

1 List

And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

Amber Sparks

$23.95 $22.27

1 List