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
129 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1961 Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 1944 American English
2170 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2548 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
3046 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
3046 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
3324 The Haunters And The Haunted Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1859 British English
3429 The Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1926 British English
3429 The Supernatural Omnibus Montague Summers 1931 British English
3446 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
3675 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
3822 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
4097 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
4671 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4812 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
4854 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4888 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
4956 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
5028 Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
5159 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
5293 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
5327 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
5411 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5538 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
5559 The Year's Best Horror Stories Richard Davis 1972 British English
5614 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
5845 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
5845 Essays In Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1925 Japanese English
6032 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
6055 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
6279 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki 1957 Multiple English
6439 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
6483 The Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry George Walter 1979 British English
6554 New Worlds Of Fantasy Terry Carr 1967 American English
6908 Night Visions Alan Ryan 1984 American English
7199 Victorian Ghost Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
7391 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
7442 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
7514 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
7568 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
7654 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
7779 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7858 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
7936 No Cheering In The Press Box Jerome Holtzman 1974 American English
7998 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
8454 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
8625 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
8717 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
8834 Fantasists On Fantasy Robert H. Boyer 1984 American English
9647 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
10336 Inferno Ellen Datlow 2007 American English
10473 The Fourth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1967 British English
10481 Shapes Of Native Nonfiction Elissa Washuta, Theresa Warburton 2019 Unknown English
10547 Hauntings Henry Mazzeo 1968 American English
10666 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
10731 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
10748 Darkness Ellen Datlow 2010 American English
10748 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Paula Guran 2010 American English
10825 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English
10919 The Eighth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1972 British English
10924 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
10927 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
10969 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English
11044 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
11066 On The Couch Andrew Blauner 2024 Unknown English
11075 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
11233 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Ii Richard Davis 1974 British English
11356 My Dear Kabul Afghan women’s writing group 2024 Unknown Unknown
11407 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
11399 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
11885 The Black Girl Survives In This One Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J. Fennell 2024 Unknown English
11901 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
12106 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
12159 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
12246 The Year's Best Horror Stories: V Gerald W. Page 1977 American English
12246 First World Fantasy Awards Gahan Wilson 1977 American English
12308 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
12476 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
12325 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
12325 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
12703 Heroes And Horrors Fritz Leiber 1978 American English
12703 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vi Gerald W. Page 1978 American English
12848 Shadows 2 Charles L. Grant 1979 American English
12848 Weird Tales Peter Haining 1979 British English
12848 A Tide Of Terror Hugh Lamb 1979 British English
12848 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vii Gerald W. Page 1979 American English
12953 New Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
12953 New Terrors Two Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
12953 Shadows 3 Charles L. Grant 1980 American English
12953 The World Fantasy Awards: Vol. 2 Fritz Leiber, Stuart David Schiff 1980 American Unknown
12953 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
12976 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
13030 Mediaeval Latin Lyrics Helen Waddell 1929 Unknown English
13141 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
13236 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
13404 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
13428 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
13610 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
13610 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
13610 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
13983 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
13983 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
13983 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
13983 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
13983 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
14331 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
14331 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
14331 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
14331 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
14331 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
14331 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
14331 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
14331 Great Japanese Stories Jay Rubin Multiple English
14640 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
14640 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
14640 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
14640 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
14640 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
14640 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
14640 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English