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
116 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
1764 Tales Of The Hasidim Martin Buber 1949 German German
1978 Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 1944 American English
2246 Poems Of Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn 1948 German German
2846 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
2861 The Haunters And The Haunted Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1859 British English
2938 The Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1926 British English
2938 The Supernatural Omnibus Montague Summers 1931 British English
3103 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3230 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
3513 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
3637 The Works Of John Dryden John Dryden 1808 British English
3905 Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
4298 The Year's Best Horror Stories Richard Davis 1972 British English
4431 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
4516 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4642 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
4662 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
4689 Essays In Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1925 Japanese English
4720 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4725 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
4725 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
4818 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
5107 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki 1957 Multiple English
5191 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5394 Selected Prose Thomas Carlyle 1800 British English
5489 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5730 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
5864 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
5864 The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1882 Scottish English
5864 The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1856 American English
5864 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
5901 Complete Works Arthur Rimbaud 1895 French French
6007 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
6287 New Worlds Of Fantasy Terry Carr 1967 American English
6670 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6765 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
6768 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
6961 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
7112 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7180 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
7217 The Complete English Poems John Skelton 1500 British English
7217 The Complete Works In Verse And Prose Of Samuel Daniel Samuel Daniel 1601 British English
7217 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
7217 The Poetical Works Of Robert Herrick Robert Herrick 1648 British English
7217 The Complete Works Of Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw 1652 British English
7217 The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift 1701 Irish English
7217 The Works Of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson 1787 British English
7217 The She Wolf And Other Stories Giovanni Verga 1880 Italian Italian
7217 Enamels And Cameos Théophile Gautier 1852 French French
7217 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7217 The Poems Of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
7217 The Collected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey Thomas de Quincey 1889 British English
7217 Poems Of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood 1826 British English
7217 Christmas Stories Charles Dickens 1852 British English
7217 Poems And Translations Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1870 British English
7217 Essays Matthew Arnold 1865 British English
7217 Appreciations Walter Pater 1889 British English
7217 Poems And Ballads Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866 British English
7217 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7217 Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 1869 British English
7217 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
7217 Ballads And Songs John Davidson 1894 British English
7217 Essays Of Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1892 Scottish English
7217 Early Romances William Morris 1890 British English
7217 Selected Poems Of Eduard Mörike Eduard Mörike 1838 German German
7217 Narrative Poems Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov 1830 Russian Russian
7217 Tales And Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1837 American English
7217 Essays And Poems Jones Very 1839 American English
7217 Short Novels And Tales Henry James 1891 American English
7217 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
7217 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
7217 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7217 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7217 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
7217 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
7217 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
7217 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7217 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7217 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7217 Selected Poems Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
7612 Selected Poetry And Prose Stéphane Mallarmé 1945 French French
7656 Poems Of Judith Wright Judith Wright 1946 Australian English
7717 Selected Writings Antonin Artaud 1947 French French
7772 Collected Poems Robert Graves 1948 British English
7820 Collected Stories Colette 1949 French French
7820 Selected Writings Henri Michaux 1949 French French
7861 Selected Writings Paul Valéry 1950 French French
7887 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
7954 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7967 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
7967 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7967 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
7967 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
8009 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
8046 Fantasists On Fantasy Robert H. Boyer 1984 American English
8178 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
8281 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
8390 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8474 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8474 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8474 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
8474 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
8609 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8776 Four Ways To Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin 1994 American English
8994 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
9011 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
9118 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9118 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9187 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
9360 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9552 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
9552 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9552 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9552 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
9552 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
9637 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
9650 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
9650 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9650 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish