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
101 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1630 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2008 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
2064 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
2162 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
2399 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
2871 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
2871 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
2871 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
3011 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
3031 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
3387 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
3387 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
3387 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
3387 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
3627 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
3679 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
3965 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
3973 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
4408 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
4593 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
4593 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
4593 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
4649 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4927 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
4981 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
5054 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
5057 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
5215 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
5349 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
5349 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
5460 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
5485 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
5626 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
5802 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
5924 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
5924 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
6017 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
6265 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6265 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
6385 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
6458 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
6568 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
6568 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
6568 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
6568 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
6568 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
6568 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
6568 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
6568 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
6568 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
6568 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
6568 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
6568 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
6568 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
6568 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6568 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
6568 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
6568 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
6568 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
6568 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
6568 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
6568 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
6568 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
6568 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
6568 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
6568 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
6568 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
6568 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
6568 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
6568 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
6568 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
6568 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
6568 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
6568 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
6568 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
6568 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6568 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
6568 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
6568 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
6568 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
6568 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
6568 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
6568 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
6568 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
6568 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
6568 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
6568 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
6568 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
6568 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
6568 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
6568 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
6568 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
6568 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
6568 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
6568 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
6568 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
6568 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
6568 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
6568 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
6568 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
6568 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
6568 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
6568 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
6568 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
6568 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
6568 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
6568 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
6568 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
6568 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
6568 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
6568 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
6568 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
6568 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
6568 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
6568 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
6568 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
6568 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
6568 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
6568 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English