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 465 '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
44 One Thousand and One Nights Unknown 800 Multiple Arabic
50 Fictions Jorge Luis Borges 1944 Argentinian Spanish
131 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Italian Italian
137 Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 1890 American English
146 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 British Middle english
244 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats 1933 Irish English
289 Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges 1962 Argentinian Spanish
299 The Stories of John Cheever John Cheever 1978 American English
332 The Poems of Robert Frost Robert Frost 1913 American English
350 Kolyma Stories Varlam Shalamov 1954 Russian Russian
405 Collected Poems Wallace Stevens 1954 American English
468 Stories of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway 1987 American English
440 Complete Poems Elizabeth Bishop 1969 American English
452 Dubliners James Joyce 1914 Irish English
473 The Aleph And Other Stories Jorge Luis Borges 1949 Argentinian Spanish
480 Poems of W. H. Auden W. H. Auden 1930 British English
596 Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1963 British English
681 Selected Stories of Alice Munro Alice Munro 1996 Canadian English
765 The Lottery and Other Stories Shirley Jackson 1948 American English
845 The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne John Donne 1952 British English
884 Selected Essays of T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot 1932 British English
918 Paroles Jacques Prévert 1946 French French
957 The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake William Blake 1827 British English
981 Collected Essays of George Orwell George Orwell 1968 British English
1120 Collected Poems Of Edward Thomas Edward Thomas 1920 British English
1412 Selected Stories William Trevor 1992 Irish English
1154 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner William Faulkner 1950 American English
1169 Essays of E. B. White E. B. White 1977 American English
1294 The October Country Ray Bradbury 1955 American English
1315 The Horror Horn And Other Stories E. F. Benson 1931 British English
1319 Books of Blood Clive Barker 1984 British English
1330 The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel Isaac Babel 1934 Russian Russian
1388 Poems, New And Collected, 1957 1997 Wislawa Szymborska 1998 Polish Polish
1425 Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake 1789 British English
1429 Out Of Space And Time Clark Ashton Smith 1942 American English
1442 And The Darkness Falls Boris Karloff 1943 British English
1521 Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 1952 British English
1526 The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1902 British English
1535 Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 1944 American English
1568 Fancies And Goodnights John Collier 1951 British English
1801 The Poetry of Alexander Pushkin Alexander Pushkin 1836 Russian Russian
1807 Collected Poems Nils Ferlin 1947 Swedish Swedish
1829 The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories Angela Carter 1979 British English
1880 Exemplary Stories Miguel de Cervantes 1613 Spanish Spanish
1911 Someone Like You Roald Dahl 1953 British English
1946 The Haunted Omnibus Alexander Laing 1937 American English
1951 Stories Heinrich von Kleist 1810 German German
1996 Essays, First And Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 American English
2040 The Belkin Tales Alexander Pushkin 1831 Russian Russian
2105 Essays And Criticism William Hazlitt 1823 British English
2110 Selected Poems Pierre Ronsard 1501 French French
2185 Flowering Judas and Other Stories Katherine Anne Porter 1930 American English
2122 Modern Greek Stories Georgios Vizyinos 1883 Greek Greek
2122 The Complete Works Of Alexandros Papadiamantis Alexandros Papadiamantis 1952 Greek Greek
2270 African Stories Doris May Lessing 1964 British English
2290 Dark Forces Kirby McCauley 1980 American English
2357 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities And Other Stories Delmore Schwartz 1938 American English
2364 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
2386 The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore Marianne Moore 1967 American English
2404 The Heptameron Marguerite de Navarre 1558 French French
2446 One Hundred Poems Kenneth Slessor 1944 Australian English
2467 Oriental Tales Marguerite Yourcenar 1938 French French
2484 Close Range Annie Proulx 1999 American English
2489 The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving 1819 American English
2514 The Golden Apples Eudora Welty 1949 American English
2526 The Wild Swans at Coole William Butler Yeats 1917 Irish English
2628 The Third Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1955 British English
2653 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
2702 Renascence and Other Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 American English
2702 The Portable Faulkner William Faulkner 1946 American English
2717 The Lurking Fear And Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1923 American English
2731 North Of Boston Robert Frost 1914 American English
2750 The Doctor Stories William Carlos Williams 1984 American English
2767 Consider The Lobster David Foster Wallace 2005 American English
2880 The Dark Descent David Hartwell 1987 American English
2888 Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 British English
2904 The Treasure Chest Johann Peter Hebel 1811 German German
2904 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
2933 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
3004 Up in the Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell 1992 American English
3008 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
3075 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
3087 Collected Poems Allen Ginsberg 1984 American English
3101 Worse Things Waiting Manly Wade Wellman 1973 American English
3147 The Portable Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker 1944 American English
3171 The Compleat Werewolf And Other Stories Of Fantasy And Science Fiction Anthony Boucher 1969 American English
3218 The Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1926 British English
3218 The Supernatural Omnibus Montague Summers 1931 British English
3285 The Dark Country Dennis Etchison 1981 American English
3346 The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828 British English
3417 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
3429 The Amber Gods And Other Stories Harriet Prescott Spofford 1863 American English
3485 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
3502 Fearful Pleasures A. E. Coppard 1946 British English
3511 Obabakoak Bernardo Atxaga 1988 Spanish Basque
3549 Tales Of The Black Widowers Isaac Asimov 1974 American English
3554 Collected Stories Of O. Henry O. Henry 1908 American English
3559 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
3617 The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg 1962 Italian Italian
3635 Bad Behavior Mary Gaitskill 1988 American English
3688 Collected Stories Of V. S. Pritchett V. S. Pritchett 1982 British English
3695 Stories Of Three Decades Thomas Mann 1936 German German
3705 The Playboy Book Of Horror And The Supernatural Ray Russell 1967 American English
5071 We Others Steven Millhauser 2011 American English
3938 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
4034 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury 1980 American English
4041 Essays Charles Lamb 1823 British English
4205 Fire And Sleet And Candlelight August Derleth 1961 American English
4291 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
4292 Retold African American Folktales David Haynes 1996 American Unknown
4343 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
4347 Revenge Yōko Ogawa 1998 Japanese Japanese
4354 Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956 American English
4376 Collected Stories Of William Saroyan William Saroyan 1943 American English
4431 Other Inquisitions Jorge Luis Borges 1952 Argentinian Spanish
4439 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4466 Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
4473 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
4483 Different Seasons Stephen King 1982 American English
4532 Thirteen O'clock Stephen Vincent Benét 1937 American English