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
6568 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
7221 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
7256 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
7275 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
7275 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
7370 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
7370 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
7370 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
7408 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
7408 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
7408 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
7455 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
7510 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
7526 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
7622 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
7622 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
7694 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
7819 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
7930 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
7958 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
7958 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
8130 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
8133 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
8161 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
8174 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
8251 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
8304 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
8315 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
8315 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
8359 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
8382 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
8562 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
8648 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
8679 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
8721 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
8775 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
8840 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
9088 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
9088 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
9145 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
9277 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
9382 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
9586 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
9594 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
9613 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
9668 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
9673 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
9798 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
9894 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
10264 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
10281 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
10347 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
10355 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
10376 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
10816 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown