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
11329 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
11329 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
11329 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
11329 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
11329 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
11329 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
11329 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
11329 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
11329 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
11329 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
11329 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
11329 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
11329 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
11329 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
11329 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
11329 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
11742 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
12165 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
12300 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
12300 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
12300 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
12300 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
12300 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
12300 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
12300 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
12300 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
12300 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
12300 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
12300 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
12300 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
12300 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
12300 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
12300 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
12300 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
12300 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
12300 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
12300 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
12300 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
12300 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
12300 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
12300 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
12300 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12300 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
12300 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
12300 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
12300 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
12300 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
12300 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
12300 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
12300 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
12300 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
12300 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
12300 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
12300 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12300 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
12300 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
12300 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
12300 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
12300 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
12300 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
12300 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
12300 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
12300 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
12300 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
12300 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
12300 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
12300 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
12300 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
12300 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
12300 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
12300 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
12300 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
12300 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
12300 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
12300 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
12300 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
12300 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
12300 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
12300 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
12300 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
12300 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12300 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12300 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12300 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
12300 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
12300 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
12300 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
12300 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
12300 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
12300 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
12300 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
12300 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
12300 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
12300 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
12300 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
12300 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
12300 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
12300 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English
12300 Roald Dahl’s Book Of Ghost Stories Roald Dahl 1983 British English
12300 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
12300 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
12300 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
12300 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
12300 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English