Of the three, I was most surprised by the data here. 1,275 ratings — Sign up and get all of our best posts about books in your inbox each week! It’s obviously not the most current anthology out there, but one that should be on your shelves, nonetheless. Want great book recommendations in your inbox every week? It’s a great chance for authors who are just staring to get attention to publish alongside some of the literary masters. “I Want a Wife,” Judy Brady What’s fascinating about the BAMS versus the BASS, is that these are the same elite authors you’ll find in our first selection, but on the crime and mystery side of the aisle. Stephen Jay Gould Recommended for: authors looking for a little more heat in their fiction, fans of Tin House and Raymond Carver, and anyone who has read or seen Secretary. “The Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln, “Against Joie de Vivre,” Phillip Lopate “Silent Dancing,” Judith Ortiz Cofer “Looking for Zora,” Alice Walker “The Flaw,” M.F.K. This may be the most widely read annual out there. There are stories from Denis Johnson, Miranda July, Steven Millhauser, Carol Anshaw, and many others. “None of the Above: What I.Q. Past guest editors have include Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, and Lawrence Block. It’s fascinating to see what worked in each decade, and how the written work progressed. published 2006, avg rating 4.13 — “I Want a Wife,” Judy Brady Fisher “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (x 7) “Total eclipse,” Annie Dillard For this list, I looked at 14 essay anthologies, plus the three volumes of Lee Gutkind’s The Best Creative Nonfiction and John D’Agata’s three-part survey of the form (The Next American Essay, The Lost Origins of the Essay, and The Making of the American Essay), for a total of 20 books published between 1991 and 2016. Lee Gutkind, Volumes 1, 2, & 3 (2007); The Signet Book of American Essays, ed. Read 2 953 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. published 2020, avg rating 3.88 — Susan Orlean!—then check out the essays they felt were amazing in a given year. “The Clan of One-Breasted Women,” Terry Tempest Williams, The Full List “How To Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldúa Fisher H.L. Aimee Bender, Jennifer Egan, and Susan Minot are just a few of the voices that shine in this collection. Jamaica Kincaid The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present, ed. “A Small Place,” Jamaica Kincaid “Two Ways to Belong in America,” Bharati Mukherjee Mencken “The White Album,” Joan Didion Cheryl Strayed! It’s fascinating to get to spend a few pages inside a writer’s own head, rather than with their characters, or to read the prose of a writer whom I primarily know through their poetry. “Seneca Falls Keynote Address,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples (x 3) Most authors of speculative fiction tend to write in many of the genres, so if you’re writing horror, you may be writing fantasy, as well as science fiction — or some hybrid. 1,176 ratings — “Sex Ex Machina,” James Thurber “Sweet Devouring,” Eudora Welty Joseph Kelly (2015), Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature. published 2018, avg rating 4.28 — If you are a fan of noir in the least, film or literature, this is a collection you have to own. If it's a larger school there should be anthologies in just about every topic -- many of … “Night and Moonlight,” Henry David Thoreau, “The Secret Life of James Thurber,” James Thurber You’ll also notice more of an international flavor with this collection. “Private Language, Public Language,” Richard Rodriguez Unfortunately, the last issue of New Stories from the South came out in 2010, although there has been no official word that the series is done, after 25 years of publishing. “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse,” Stephen Jay Gould John Gross (1991); 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, Samuel Cohen (2011); The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction, ed. “Regarding the Pain of Others,” Susan Sontag “Equal in Paris,” James Baldwin, “Going Out for a Walk,” Max Beerbohm Travel through the 1920s with Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” skip ahead to the 1950s and Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt,” Flannery O’Connor’s 1960s story “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” and then hit the 1970s with Ursula K. LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” moving on to the 1980s and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” 1990s “Brother Grasshopper” by John Updike, and concluding with only a few in the 2000s, such as “Intervention” by Jill McCorkle. James Baldwin “Photographs of Agony,” John Berger But imagine a jury of Sherman Alexie, Stephen King, and Lorrie Moore versus one that has Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates, and Colson Whitehead. This is the last survey of anthologies in a series—earlier this month, I looked at the most anthologized short stories and the most anthologized poems—and considering all three lists together affords the ability to compare the way the different forms are canonized and read in America. Cynthia Ozick “Writing and Analyzing a Story,” Eudora Welty Mencken Raymond Carver was an unknown author when Esquire ran “Neighbors” in 1971. “The Raven,” Barry Lopez published 1987, avg rating 4.03 — published 2019, avg rating 3.84 — “The Cowboy and his Cow,” Edward Abbey “St. 29,983 ratings — from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich They’re wild. You can start with Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840), touching on “Heart of Darkness” by Conrad (1902), as well as “The Metamorphasis” by Franz Kafka in 1915. “He and I,” Natalia Ginzburg Mencken, “The Way to Rainy Mountain,” N. Scott Momaday (x 4) “A Century of Cinema,” Susan Sontag (x 2) “The Clan of One-Breasted Women,” Terry Tempest Williams 272 ratings — Mark Twain “Corn-pone Opinions,” Mark Twain “The Undertaking,” Thomas Lynch “At the Dam,” Joan Didion David Sedaris “An American Land Ethic,” N. Scott Momaday, “Of some verses on Virgil,” Michel de Montaigne (x 2) from “Fourth of July Oration,” Frederick Douglass, “Of the Coming of John,” W.E.B. One of the things that I like about the O’Henry anthology is that the stories are selected by a jury of three. It really runs the gamut, and shows you what noir can be. “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s,” Brent Staples, “Aes Triplex,” Robert Louis Stevenson “The Dream,” Winston Churchill 906 ratings — “Ron her Son,” Nancy Mairs
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