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
17161 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17161 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
17161 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
17161 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
17161 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
17161 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
17161 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
17161 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
17161 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
17161 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
17161 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
17161 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
17161 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
17161 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
17161 Roald Dahl’s Book Of Ghost Stories Roald Dahl 1983 British English
17161 Darkness Ellen Datlow 2010 American English
17161 Inferno Ellen Datlow 2007 American English
17161 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Paula Guran 2010 American English
17161 Night Visions Alan Ryan 1984 American English
17161 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17161 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17161 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17161 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17161 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17161 The Black Girl Survives In This One Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J. Fennell 2024 Unknown English
17161 My Dear Kabul Afghan women’s writing group 2024 Unknown Unknown
17161 On The Couch Andrew Blauner 2024 Unknown English
17161 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17161 The Drowned Life Jeffrey Ford 2008 American English
17161 The Unfinished World Amber Sparks 2016 American English
17161 The New Century Of South African Poetry Michael Chapman 2002 South African English
17161 Disability Intimacy Alice Wong 2024 Unknown English
17161 The Coiled Serpent Camilla Grudova 2023 Unknown English
17161 El Ghourabaa Samia Marshy, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 2024 Unknown English
17161 Skin Thief Suzan Palumbo 2023 Unknown English
17161 Limehouse Nights Thomas Burke 1917 British English
17161 No Cheering In The Press Box Jerome Holtzman 1974 American English
17161 The Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry George Walter 1979 British English
17161 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
16921 Family Happiness And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1973 Russian Russian
17161 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17161 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17161 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17161 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17161 The People Trap Robert Sheckley 1968 American English
17161 More Letters Of Note Nikki Usher 2019 Unknown English
17161 Fish Soup Margarita García Robayo 2018 Colombian Spanish
17161 From The Country Of Eight Islands Hiroaki Sato, Burton Watson 1981 Multiple English
17161 Selected Translations 1948–1968 W. S. Merwin 1969 American English
17161 Traditional Buddhist Mind Training: Essential Mind Training Thupten Jinpa Tibetan English
17161 Remaking A World Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman 2001 American English
17161 Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism And Human Cognition Mark Siderits, Tom Tillemans, Arindam Chakrabarti American English
17161 Allow Me To Introduce Lon Milo DuQuette American English
17161 Humans Brandon Stanton 2020 American English
17161 Humans Of New York Brandon Stanton 2015 American English
17161 Januaries Olivie Blake 2024 Unknown English
17161 Not That Bad Roxane Gay 2018 American English
17161 Starting Point 1979 1996 Hayao Miyazaki Japanese Japanese
17161 The Silence Of The Lambs And Red Dragon Thomas Harris 1991 American Unknown
17161 Remembrance Of Earth's Past Liu Cixin 2012 Chinese Chinese
17161 Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library Frank Miller 2005 American English
17161 I Must Be Living Twice Eileen Myles 2015 American English
17161 Syrian Brides Anna Halabi 2018 Unknown English
17161 Giant Bones Peter S. Beagle 1997 American English