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
9681 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
9717 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9731 Victorian Ghost Stories Montague Summers 1936 British English
9740 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9751 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9773 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
9773 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
9832 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9906 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
9926 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
10067 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10135 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10135 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10135 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
10169 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
10258 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
10258 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
10258 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
10406 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10530 Mediaeval Latin Lyrics Helen Waddell 1929 Unknown English
10552 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10745 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
10745 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10846 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
10859 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10942 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10990 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11058 A Vida Como Ela é... Nelson Rodrigues 2006 Brazilian Portuguese
11086 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
11216 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11249 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English
11250 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11307 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11339 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11387 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11477 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11505 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11605 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11650 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11659 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
12019 The Fourth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1967 British English
12118 Hauntings Henry Mazzeo 1968 American English
12287 Where Are You Really From Elaine Hsieh Chou 2025 American English
12383 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12383 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12424 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
12585 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English
12646 Save Me, Stranger Erika Krouse 2025 American English
12655 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12655 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12655 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12798 The Eighth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1972 British English
12897 Are You Happy? Lori Ostlund 2025 American English
12898 Make Your Way Home Carrie R. Moore 2025 Unknown English
12932 Now Jazz Now Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson American Unknown
12950 Lost In The Dark And Other Excursions John Langan 2025 American English
13229 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
13242 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
13256 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13295 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Ii Richard Davis 1974 British English
13359 The Works of Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor 1846 British English
13359 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
13511 The Norton Anthology Of Latino Literature Ilan Stavans 2005 Multiple English
13693 The Year's Best Horror Stories: V Gerald W. Page 1977 American English
13693 First World Fantasy Awards Gahan Wilson 1977 American English
13730 Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick Philip K. Dick 2002 American English
13752 The Poetical Works Of Johnson, Parnell, Gray And Smollett George Gilfillan 1855 Scottish English
13751 The Furry Trap Josh Simmons 2012 American English
13767 Heroes And Horrors Fritz Leiber 1978 American English
13767 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vi Gerald W. Page 1978 American English
13885 Essential Pleasures Robert Pinsky 2009 American English
13904 Shadows 2 Charles L. Grant 1979 American English
13904 Weird Tales Peter Haining 1979 British English
13904 A Tide Of Terror Hugh Lamb 1979 British English
13904 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vii Gerald W. Page 1979 American English
13922 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
14327 Shapes Of Native Nonfiction Elissa Washuta, Theresa Warburton 2019 Unknown English
14347 Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson 2015 American English
14375 We Are Here To Hurt Each Other Paula D. Ashe 2022 Unknown English
14434 Collected Short Fiction Of Robert Sheckley Robert Sheckley 1991 American English
14434 The World Of Mathematics James R. Newman 1956 American English
14519 Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara Frank O'Hara 1971 American English
14629 The New Fiction Joe David Bellamy 1974 American English
14679 Pushcart Prize Anthology Pushcart Prize 1976 American English
14779 Poems, Essays And Letters Of Joyce Kilmer Joyce Kilmer, Robert Cortes Holliday 1918 American English
14787 The Three Hundred Tang Poems China 1763 Chinese Chinese
14983 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
14983 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
14983 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
14983 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
14983 Great Japanese Stories Jay Rubin Multiple English
15559 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
15559 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
15659 Look How Happy I'm Making You Polly Rosenwaike 2019 Unknown English
15678 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15678 Literature And Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre French French
15678 The Oxford Book Of English Verse John Malcolm Brinnin Unknown English
15678 Fireside Book Of Folk Songs Norman Lloyd Unknown English
15737 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
15897 Foliage Leigh Hunt 1818 British English
15897 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
15897 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
16489 William Shakespeare Complete Works William Shakespeare 1623 English English
16612 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
17117 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17117 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
17117 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17117 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17117 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
17117 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
17117 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17117 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
17117 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English