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
9684 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
9720 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9734 Victorian Ghost Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
9743 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9754 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9776 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
9776 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
9835 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9909 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
9930 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
10072 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10139 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10139 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10139 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
10173 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
10263 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
10263 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
10263 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
10411 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10536 Mediaeval Latin Lyrics Helen Waddell 1929 Unknown English
10558 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10751 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
10751 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10852 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
10865 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10948 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10996 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11033 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11064 A Vida Como Ela é... Nelson Rodrigues 2006 Brazilian Portuguese
11092 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
11222 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11255 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English
11256 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11313 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11345 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11392 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11480 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11507 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11607 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11652 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11661 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
12020 The Fourth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1967 British English
12119 Hauntings Henry Mazzeo 1968 American English
12288 Where Are You Really From Elaine Hsieh Chou 2025 American English
12385 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12385 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12426 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
12587 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English
12648 Save Me, Stranger Erika Krouse 2025 American English
12657 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12657 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12657 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12800 The Eighth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1972 British English
12899 Are You Happy? Lori Ostlund 2025 American English
12900 Make Your Way Home Carrie R. Moore 2025 Unknown English
12935 Now Jazz Now Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson American Unknown
12953 Lost In The Dark And Other Excursions John Langan 2025 American English
13232 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
13245 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
13259 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13298 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Ii Richard Davis 1974 British English
13362 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
13362 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
13513 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13694 The Year's Best Horror Stories: V Gerald W. Page 1977 American English
13694 First World Fantasy Awards Gahan Wilson 1977 American English
13731 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
13753 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
13752 The Furry Trap Josh Simmons 2012 American English
13768 Heroes And Horrors Fritz Leiber 1978 American English
13768 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vi Gerald W. Page 1978 American English
13886 Essential Pleasures Robert Pinsky 2009 American English
13905 Shadows 2 Charles L. Grant 1979 American English
13905 Weird Tales Peter Haining 1979 British English
13905 A Tide Of Terror Hugh Lamb 1979 British English
13905 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vii Gerald W. Page 1979 American English
13923 Dangerous Visions Harlan Ellison 1967 American English
13993 New Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
13993 New Terrors Two Ramsey Campbell 1980 British English
13993 Shadows 3 Charles L. Grant 1980 American English
13993 The World Fantasy Awards: Vol. 2 Fritz Leiber, Stuart David Schiff 1980 American Unknown
13993 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
14011 Emperor Of The Air Ethan Canin 1988 American English
14328 Shapes Of Native Nonfiction Elissa Washuta, Theresa Warburton 2019 Unknown English
14348 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
14376 We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Paula D. Ashe 2022 Unknown English
14435 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
14435 The World Of Mathematics James R. Newman 1956 American English
14520 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
14630 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
14680 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14781 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English
14788 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
14985 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
14985 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
14985 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
14985 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
14985 Great Japanese Stories Jay Rubin Multiple English
15567 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
15567 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
15667 Look How Happy I'm Making You Polly Rosenwaike 2019 Unknown English
15686 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15686 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15686 The Oxford Book Of English Verse John Malcolm Brinnin Unknown English
15686 Fireside Book Of Folk Songs Norman Lloyd Unknown English
15745 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
15915 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
15915 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
15915 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
16507 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
15887 Ocean Of The Streams Of Story Somadeva 1063 Indian Sanskrit
16609 The Oxford Complete Shakespeare, 2nd Edition Oxford University Press 1623 British English
16648 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
16701 The Rambler Samuel Johnson 1784 English English
17161 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17161 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
17161 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17161 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17161 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
17161 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English