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
6496 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
6496 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
6496 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
6496 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
6496 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
6496 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
6496 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
6496 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
6496 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
6496 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
6496 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
6496 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
6496 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
6496 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
6496 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
6496 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
6496 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
6496 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
6496 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
6496 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
6496 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
6496 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
6496 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
6496 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
6496 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
6496 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
6496 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
6496 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
6496 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
7433 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
7440 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
7558 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
7558 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
7835 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
7869 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
8103 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
8882 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
8928 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
9216 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
9223 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
9301 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
9301 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
9301 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
9301 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
9301 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English