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
102 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1391 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
2130 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
2200 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
2451 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2833 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
2833 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
2908 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
3187 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
3505 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
3663 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
3670 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
3922 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
4146 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
4362 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
4464 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
4479 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4706 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
4828 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
4888 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
4962 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
4962 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
4962 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5060 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
5142 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
5734 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
5931 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
5971 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
6187 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
6314 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
6314 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
6314 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
6314 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
6314 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
6314 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
6314 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
6314 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
6314 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
6314 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
6314 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
6314 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
6314 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
6314 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
6314 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
6314 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
6314 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
6314 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
6314 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
6314 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
6314 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
6314 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
6314 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
6314 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
6314 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
6314 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
6314 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
6314 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
6314 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
6314 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
6314 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
6314 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
6314 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
6314 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
6314 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
6314 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
6314 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
6314 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
6314 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
6314 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
6314 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
6314 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
6778 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
6812 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
6819 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
6873 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
6922 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
6922 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
6970 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
7005 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
7005 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
7017 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
7045 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
7061 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
7163 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
7163 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7163 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
7163 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
7226 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
7342 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
7442 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
7442 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
7540 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
7594 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
7687 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
7687 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
7687 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
7687 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
8029 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
8135 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
8165 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
8296 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
8388 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
8401 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
8401 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
8417 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
8425 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
8618 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
8685 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
8701 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
8741 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
8741 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
8817 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
8828 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
8828 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
8828 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
8828 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
8828 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
8924 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
8933 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
8933 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian