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
178 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1580 Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 1944 American English
1807 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
2454 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
2641 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
2729 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2734 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
3041 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
3041 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
3091 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
3300 The Haunters And The Haunted Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1859 British English
3330 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
3367 The Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1926 British English
3367 The Supernatural Omnibus Montague Summers 1931 British English
3496 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
3644 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
3656 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
3727 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3782 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4572 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4595 Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
4950 Night Visions Alan Ryan 1984 American English
4965 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
5005 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5158 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
5247 The Year's Best Horror Stories Richard Davis 1972 British English
5446 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
5553 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
5838 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
5884 New Worlds Of Fantasy Terry Carr 1967 American English
6177 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
6414 Victorian Ghost Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
6571 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
6633 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
6667 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
6744 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
6756 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7120 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
7379 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
7399 Inferno Ellen Datlow 2007 American English
7438 Fantasists On Fantasy Robert H. Boyer 1984 American English
7829 Darkness Ellen Datlow 2010 American English
7829 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Paula Guran 2010 American English
7973 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
8189 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
8915 The Fourth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1967 British English
8963 Hauntings Henry Mazzeo 1968 American English
9114 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
9187 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English
9225 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9241 The Eighth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1972 British English
9290 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
9344 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Ii Richard Davis 1974 British English
9450 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
9555 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
9534 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
9534 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
9601 The Year's Best Horror Stories: V Gerald W. Page 1977 American English
9601 First World Fantasy Awards Gahan Wilson 1977 American English
9623 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
9752 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
9855 Heroes And Horrors Fritz Leiber 1978 American English
9855 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vi Gerald W. Page 1978 American English
9947 Shadows 2 Charles L. Grant 1979 American English
9947 Weird Tales Peter Haining 1979 British English
9947 A Tide Of Terror Hugh Lamb 1979 British English
9947 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vii Gerald W. Page 1979 American English
10048 New Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
10048 New Terrors Two Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
10048 Shadows 3 Charles L. Grant 1980 American English
10048 The World Fantasy Awards: Vol. 2 Fritz Leiber, Stuart David Schiff 1980 American Unknown
10048 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
10076 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
10196 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
10267 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
10526 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
10582 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
10672 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
10696 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
10696 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
10826 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
10973 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
10906 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
10947 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
10906 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
10906 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
11191 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
11191 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
11191 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
11191 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
11191 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
11191 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
12004 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
12120 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
11329 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
11329 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
11329 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
11329 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
11329 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
11329 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
11329 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
11329 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
11329 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
11329 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
11329 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
11329 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
11329 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
11329 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
11329 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
11329 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
11329 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
11329 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
11329 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
11329 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
11329 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
11329 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
11329 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
11329 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
11329 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
11329 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English