The Greatest Anthologies of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
104 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1790 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2056 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
2424 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
2585 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
3066 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
3251 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
3267 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
3267 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
3267 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
3267 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
3267 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
3267 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
3267 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
3267 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
3267 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
3447 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
3842 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
3842 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
3842 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
4387 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4405 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
4439 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
5460 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
5460 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
5460 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
5460 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
5765 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
5816 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
6069 All The Women Are White, All The Blacks Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, Barbara Smith 1982 American English
6069 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
6190 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
6203 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6203 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
6203 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
6203 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
6203 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
6203 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
6496 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
6496 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
6496 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
6496 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
6496 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
6496 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
6496 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
6496 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
6496 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
6496 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
6496 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
6496 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
6496 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
6496 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
6496 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
6496 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
6496 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
6496 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6496 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
6496 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
6496 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
6496 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
6496 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
6496 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
6496 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
6496 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
6496 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
6496 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
6496 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
6496 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
6496 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
6496 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
6496 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
6496 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
6496 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
6496 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
6496 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
6496 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
6496 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
6496 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
6496 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6496 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
6496 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
6496 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
6496 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
6496 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
6496 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
6496 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
6496 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
6496 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
6496 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
6496 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
6496 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
6496 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
6496 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
6496 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
6496 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
6496 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
6496 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
6496 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
6496 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
6496 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
6496 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
6496 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
6496 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
6496 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
6496 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
6496 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
6496 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
6496 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
6496 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
6496 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
6496 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
6496 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
6496 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
6496 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
6496 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
6496 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
6496 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
6496 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
6496 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
6496 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English