The Greatest Anthologies Since 1900

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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
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
2847 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
2939 The Ghost Book Cynthia Asquith 1926 British English
2939 The Supernatural Omnibus Montague Summers 1931 British English
3104 Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters 1915 American English
3231 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
3514 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
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
4515 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4641 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
4661 Poets Of The English Language W. H. Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson 1950 American English
4688 Essays In Zen Buddhism D. T. Suzuki 1925 Japanese English
4719 I'll Take My Stand Twelve Southerners 1930 American English
4724 My Book House Olive Beaupré Miller 1920 American English
4724 The Negro Caravan Sterling Allen Brown, Arthur Paul Davis, Ulysses Lee 1941 American English
4817 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
5106 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki 1957 Multiple English
5190 The Lock And Key Library Julian Hawthorne 1909 American English
5488 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5729 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
5863 Poems And Prose Gerald Manley Hopkins 1918 British English
5863 Winter's Tales Isak Dinesen 1942 Danish Danish
6005 The Oxford Book Of English Verse Arthur Quiller-Couch 1900 British English
6286 New Worlds Of Fantasy Terry Carr 1967 American English
6669 Complete Short Stories Mark Twain 1957 American English
6764 The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke Theodore Roethke 1966 American English
6767 A Treasury Of American Folklore Benjamin A. Botkin 1944 American English
6960 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
7111 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7179 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
7216 The Works Of Thomas Campion Thomas Campion 1909 British English
7216 Selected Writings Jules Laforgue 1901 French French
7216 Poetical Works Of Robert Bridges Robert Bridges 1912 British English
7216 Essays Of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1909 Irish English
7216 Complete Verse Rudyard Kipling 1940 British English
7216 Collected Poems Walter de la Mare 1920 British English
7216 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7216 Selected Prose Hugo von Hofmannsthal 1900 Austrian German
7216 Selected Tales Leonid Andreyev 1900 Russian Russian
7216 Selected Stories Ivan Bunin 1933 Russian Russian
7216 Twenty One Stories Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1941 Israeli Hebrew
7216 Death In The Woods And Other Stories Sherwood Anderson 1933 American English
7216 Poems Of John Crowe Ransom John Crowe Ransom 1923 American English
7216 Selected Poems Robert Penn Warren 1944 American English
7216 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
8280 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
8389 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8473 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8473 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8473 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
8473 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
8607 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8774 Four Ways To Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin 1994 American English
8992 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
9009 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
9116 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9116 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9185 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
9358 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9550 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
9550 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9550 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9550 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
9550 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
9635 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
9647 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
9647 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9647 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
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
10853 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
10866 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10949 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10997 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11065 A Vida Como Ela é... Nelson Rodrigues 2006 Brazilian Portuguese
11093 Disciplina Clericalis Petrus Alphonsi 1919 Multiple Latin
11223 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11256 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English