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
8933 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
8954 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
8980 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
8985 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
9034 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9105 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9154 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
9162 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
9179 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
9179 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
9314 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
9494 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
9518 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
9518 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
9518 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
9570 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
9608 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
9608 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
9608 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
9671 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
9782 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
9853 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
9946 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
9946 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10072 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
10066 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
10116 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
10111 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10146 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
10300 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
10340 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
10356 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
10381 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
10382 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
10406 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
10450 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
10473 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
10490 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
10691 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
10705 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
10731 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
10731 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
10786 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
10837 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
11010 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
11010 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
11028 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11067 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
11067 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
11067 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
11202 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
11202 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
11202 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
11591 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
11624 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
11661 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English