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
8977 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
8998 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
9024 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9029 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
9078 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9149 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9198 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
9206 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
9223 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
9223 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
9358 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
9537 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
9561 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
9561 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
9561 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
9613 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
9651 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
9651 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
9651 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
9713 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
9824 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
9895 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
9988 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
9988 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10114 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
10108 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
10158 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
10153 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10188 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
10342 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
10382 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
10398 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
10423 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
10424 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
10448 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
10492 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
10515 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
10532 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
10733 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
10747 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
10773 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
10773 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
10828 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
10879 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
11052 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
11052 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
11070 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11109 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
11109 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
11109 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
11244 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
11244 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
11244 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
11633 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
11666 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
11703 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English