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
92 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1641 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
2109 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
2118 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2155 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
2573 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
2573 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
2864 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
3141 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
3320 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
3446 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
3446 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
3712 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
3950 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
4104 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4246 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
4246 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
4246 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
4294 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
4396 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4630 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
4731 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
4779 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
4856 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
4962 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
5037 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
5708 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
5749 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
5939 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
6049 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
6049 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
6049 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
6049 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
6049 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
6049 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
6049 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
6049 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
6049 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
6049 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
6049 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
6049 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6049 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
6049 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
6049 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
6049 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
6049 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
6049 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
6049 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
6049 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
6049 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
6049 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
6049 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
6049 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
6049 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
6049 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
6049 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
6049 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
6049 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
6049 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
6049 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
6049 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
6049 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
6049 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
6049 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
6049 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
6049 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
6049 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
6049 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
6049 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
6049 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
6049 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
6495 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
6512 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
6540 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
6545 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
6601 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
6643 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
6643 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
6689 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
6720 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
6720 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
6731 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
6758 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
6774 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
6876 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
6876 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
6876 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
6876 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
6969 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
7078 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
7158 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
7166 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
7166 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
7272 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
7306 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
7389 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
7389 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
7389 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
7389 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
7437 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
7459 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
7727 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
7872 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
7965 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
7977 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
7996 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
8120 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
8207 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
8216 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
8216 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
8306 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
8387 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
8430 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
8448 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
8463 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
8497 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
8497 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
8574 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
8583 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
8583 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish