The Greatest Anthologies Since 1952

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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
2845 Sisterhood Is Powerful Robin Morgan 1970 American English
3231 This Bridge Called My Back Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa 1981 American English
3513 Poems, 1913 1956 Bertolt Brecht 1976 German German
3905 Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1964 British English
4296 The Year's Best Horror Stories Richard Davis 1972 British English
4429 The Family of Man Edward Steichen 1955 American English
4513 The Rattle Bag Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney 1982 British English
4639 Prime Evil Douglas Winter 1988 American English
4815 The New Oxford Book Of English Verse Helen Gardner 1972 British English
5104 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki 1957 Multiple English
5487 Dark symphony James A. Emanuel (Comp), Theodore L. Gross 1968 American English
5728 My Kind of Place Susan Orlean 2004 American English
6285 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
6960 The Year's Best Fantasy Stories Lin Carter 1975 American English
7111 The Fantastic Imagination Robert H. Boyer 1977 Unknown English
7178 A Book of Luminous Things Czesław Miłosz 1996 Polish English
7886 Six Centuries Of Verse Seamus Heaney 1984 Multiple Unknown
7953 Selected Poetry Yehuda Amichai 1971 Israeli Hebrew
7966 Selected Writings Guillaume Apollinaire 1952 French French
7966 Complete Poems And Selected Letters And Prose Hart Crane 1952 American English
7966 The Shores Of Light Edmund Wilson 1952 American English
7966 Poems Of W. S. Merwin W. S. Merwin 1952 American English
8008 Collected Poems Conrad Aiken 1953 American English
8045 Fantasists On Fantasy Robert H. Boyer 1984 American English
8177 Poems Of A. D. Hope A. D. Hope 1955 Australian English
8279 Opus Posthumous Wallace Stevens 1957 American English
8388 Selected Stories I. L. Peretz 1959 Polish Yiddish
8472 Selected Writings Salvatore Quasimodo 1960 Italian Italian
8472 Collected Poems Edwin Muir 1960 Scottish English
8472 Poems Of Anne Hébert Anne Hébert 1960 Canadian French
8472 Collected Poems Weldon Kees 1960 American English
8606 Lyrical And Critical Essays Albert Camus 1968 French French
8772 Four Ways To Forgiveness Ursula K. Le Guin 1994 American English
8991 Collected Stories Frank O'Connor 1981 Irish English
9008 A Personal Anthology Jorge Luis Borges 1967 Argentinian Spanish
9115 Poems For People Who Don't Read Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 1968 German German
9115 Collected Short Stories Edith Wharton 1968 American English
9184 The Writer on Her Work Janet Sternburg 1980 American English
9356 Selected Poems Marina Tsvetayeva 1971 Russian Russian
9548 Selected Poems Pere Gimferrer 1972 Spanish Spanish
9548 Selected Poems Lars Gustafsson 1972 Swedish Swedish
9548 Selected Poems Jacob Glatstein 1972 Polish Yiddish
9548 Straw For The Fire Theodore Roethke 1972 American English
9548 Collected Poems A. R. Ammons 1972 American English
9633 The Collected Works of Paul Valéry Paul Valéry 1957 French French
9645 Poems Of Donald Davie David Donald 1973 British Unknown
9645 Selected Poems Osip Mandelstam 1973 Russian Russian
9645 Selected Poems Czesław Miłosz 1973 Polish Polish
9682 The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse John Gross 1994 British English
9718 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9741 Tatlin! Guy Davenport 1974 American English
9752 Darkness Spoken Ingeborg Bachmann 2006 Austrian German
9774 The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams 1986 American English
9774 Collected Poems Derek Walcott 1986 Saint Lucian English
9833 Poems Of Stevie Smith Stevie Smith 1975 British English
9907 The Oxford Book Of Letters Frank Kermode, Anita Kermode 1995 British English
9927 Collected Poems Richard Eberhart 1976 American English
10068 New And Collected Poems Richard Wilbur 1988 American English
10136 Poems Of Jorge De Sena Jorge de Sena 1978 Portuguese Portuguese
10136 Poems Of Gavin Ewart Gavin Ewart 1978 British English
10136 New & Selected Things Taking Place May Swenson 1978 American English
10170 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford Jean Stafford 1969 American English
10260 Poems Of F. T. Prince F. T. Prince 1979 British English
10260 Selected Poems Donald Justice 1979 American English
10260 New And Selected Poems Irving Feldman 1979 American English
10408 Selected Longer Poems A. R. Ammons 1980 American English
10556 Poems Twice Told Jay Macpherson 1981 Canadian English
10748 Selected Stories Robert Walser 1982 Swiss German
10748 From The First Nine James Merrill 1982 American Unknown
10849 Out Of The Storm Sam Moskowitz 1952 American English
10862 A Century Of Ghost Stories Richard Sugg 2017 British English
10945 Selected Poems Philip Levine 1984 American English
10993 Portable Curiosities Julie Koh 2016 Australian English
11030 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11061 A Vida Como Ela é... Nelson Rodrigues 2006 Brazilian Portuguese
11219 The Color Of Violence INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence 2006 Unknown English
11252 Nobody Passes Matthew Bernstein Sycamore 2006 Unknown English
11253 Black Women Writers At Work Claudia Tate 1983 American English
11310 Atavists Lydia Millet 2025 American English
11342 Best Loved Folktales Of The World Joanna Cole 1982 Unknown English
11390 Collected Poems James Schuyler 1988 American English
11479 Victory Over Japan Ellen Gilchrist 1984 American English
11506 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11606 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11651 Collected Earlier Poems Anthony Hecht 1990 American English
11660 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
12384 Tesserae John Hollander 1993 American English
12384 Selected Poems Rita Dove 1993 American English
12425 The Black Magic Omnibus Peter Haining 1970 British English
12586 The Second Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1971 British English
12647 Save Me, Stranger Erika Krouse 2025 American English
12656 Collected Poems Geoffrey Hill 2013 British English
12656 Selected Poems Adunis 2000 Syrian Arabic
12656 Poems Of John Hollander John Hollander 2013 American English
12799 The Eighth Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories Robert Aickman 1972 British English
12898 Are You Happy? Lori Ostlund 2025 American English
12899 Make Your Way Home Carrie R. Moore 2025 Unknown English
12951 Lost In The Dark And Other Excursions John Langan 2025 American English
13230 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
13243 A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories Isaac Bashevis Singer 1973 Polish English
13257 The Spoken Word Revolution Mark Eleveld 2003 Unknown English
13296 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Ii Richard Davis 1974 British English
13360 Writers At Work Malcolm Cowley 1958 American English
13512 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