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
11257 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11314 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11346 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11393 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11481 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11508 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11608 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11653 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11662 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
12021 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
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 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
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
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
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
14986 Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Ted Hughes 2003 British English
14986 Crazy Salad Nora Ephron 1975 American English
14986 Reliable Essays Clive James 2001 British English
14986 Book Of The Dead John Skipp , Craig Spector 1989 Multiple English
15570 Stories T. C. Boyle 1998 American English
15570 In The Valley Ron Rash 2020 American English
15670 Look How Happy I'm Making You Polly Rosenwaike 2019 Unknown English
15689 The Paris Review Interviews Paris Review 2006 American English
15748 The Faber Book Of Aphorisms W. H. Auden 1962 British English
15919 A Johnson Reader Samuel Johnson 1964 American English
15919 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
16652 Fame And Obscurity Gay Talese 1970 American English
17171 Staying Alive Neil Astley 2002 British English
17171 Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy Michael Donaghy 2004 British English
17171 Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 1995 Haitian English
17171 Native American Folktales Thomas A. Green 2008 American English
17171 Collected Poems 1912-1944 Hilda Doolittle 1983 American English
17171 Tales from Rugosa Coven Sarah Avery 2013 American English
17171 Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss 2019 American English
17171 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
17171 Black Eyed Susans And Midnight Birds Mary Helen Washington 1975 American English
17171 Art Matters Neil Gaiman 2018 British English
17171 Craigslist Confessional Helena Dea Bala 2020 American English
17171 She Fits Inside These Words r.h. Sin, Robert M. Drake, Samantha King Holmes 2021 American English
17171 The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley 1988 American English
17171 Greek Lyrics Richmond Lattimore 1960 Greek English
17171 The Faber Book Of Reportage John Carey 1987 British English
17171 The Geography Of The Imagination Guy Davenport 1981 American English
17171 The Essential Haiku Robert Hass 1994 American English
17171 The Art Of The Personal Essay Phillip Lopate 1994 American English
17171 A Reader's Delight Noel Perrin 1988 American English
17171 Simone Weil Simone Weil 1986 French French
17171 Roald Dahl’s Book Of Ghost Stories Roald Dahl 1983 British English
17171 Darkness Ellen Datlow 2010 American English
17171 Inferno Ellen Datlow 2007 American English
17171 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Paula Guran 2010 American English
17171 Night Visions Alan Ryan 1984 American English
17171 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17171 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17171 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17171 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17171 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17171 The Black Girl Survives In This One Desiree S. Evans, Saraciea J. Fennell 2024 Unknown English
17171 My Dear Kabul Afghan women’s writing group 2024 Unknown Unknown
17171 On The Couch Andrew Blauner 2024 Unknown English
17171 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17171 The Drowned Life Jeffrey Ford 2008 American English
17171 The Unfinished World Amber Sparks 2016 American English
17171 The New Century Of South African Poetry Michael Chapman 2002 South African English
17171 Disability Intimacy Alice Wong 2024 Unknown English
17171 The Coiled Serpent Camilla Grudova 2023 Unknown English
17171 El Ghourabaa Samia Marshy, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch 2024 Unknown English
17171 Skin Thief Suzan Palumbo 2023 Unknown English
17171 Limehouse Nights Thomas Burke 1917 British English
17171 No Cheering In The Press Box Jerome Holtzman 1974 American English
17171 The Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry George Walter 1979 British English
17171 Great Spanish Stories Margaret Jull Costa 2014 Unknown Spanish
16941 Family Happiness And Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1973 Russian Russian
17171 The Oxford Book Of American Short Stories Joyce Carol Oates 1992 American English
17171 This Is Salvaged Vauhini Vara 2023 Unknown English
17171 The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet Vandana Singh 2009 Indian English
17171 No One Will Come Back For Us Premee Mohamed 2023 Canadian English
17171 The People Trap Robert Sheckley 1968 American English