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The best anthology books of the 2020s

The books our community loved the most.

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Fire & Water

By Mary Fifield (editor) , Kristin Thiel (editor) ,

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Out There Screaming

By Jordan Peele (editor) ,

Book cover of Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror

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The Partition

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Love After the End

By Joshua Whitehead (editor) ,

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Infinite Constellations

By Khadijah Queen (editor) , Kiini Ibura Salaam (editor) ,

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Nothing Personal

By James Baldwin ,

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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African American Poetry

By Kevin Young ,

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Worth More Standing

By Christine Lowther (editor) ,

Book cover of Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees

What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Resistance

By Sue Goyette (editor) ,

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

By Joy Harjo (editor) , LeAnne Howe (editor) , Jennifer Elise Foerster (editor)

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Disruption

By Rachel Zadok (editor) , Karina M. Szczurek (editor) , Jason Mykl Snyman (editor)

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Stories from Suffragette City

By M.J. Rose (editor) , Fiona Davis (editor) ,

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The Savage B's

By David O'Hanlon , Mya Lairis , Killian Crane , C. Courtney Joyner , Zame Hill , Bert Edens , Bret Bouriseau , Jay Wilburn , Dennis Freeman , Christopher Dowell

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Rising from the Ashes

By Anne K. Nagel ,

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Dominion

By Zelda Knight , Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki , Nicole Givens Kurtz , Dilman Dila , Eugen Bacon , Marian Denise Moore , Rafeeat Aliyu , Suyi Davies Okungbowa , Odida Nyabundi , Michael Boatman

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NDA

By Caitlin Forst ,

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Liminal

By Andrew M. Reichart (editor) , Dora M. Raymaker (editor) , Nick Walker (editor)

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The Wild Isles

By Patrick Barkham (editor) ,

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No More Fairy Tales

By D.A. Baden (editor) , Kim Stanley Robinson , Paolo Bacigalupi , Andrew Dana Hudson , Sara Foster , Nancy Lord , Martin Hastie , Brian Burt , Matthew Hanson-Kahn , Rasha Barrage

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Alone Together

By Jennifer Haupt (editor) , Garth Stein , Jenna Blum , Kwame Alexander

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Queer Nature

By Michael Walsh (editor) ,

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Damnable Tales

By Richard Wells (editor) ,

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart

By Edward Hirsch ,

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Speculative Fiction for Dreamers

By Alex Hernandez (editor) , Matthew David Goodwin (editor) , Sarah Rafael Garcia (editor)

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Unspeakable Horror 3

By Vince A Liaguno (editor) , Eric Larocca , Paul Tremblay

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A Song of Silver and Gold

By Melissa Karibian ,

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Kink

By R O Kwon (editor) , Garth Greenwell (editor) ,

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Blackened Roots

By Brandon Massey , Nicole Givens Kurtz (editor) , Tonia Ransom (editor)

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American Christmas Stories

By Connie Willis (editor) ,

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Murder by Degrees

By Ritu Mukerji ,

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What Rides at Night

By Summer Jewel Keown (editor), Elly Blue (editor),

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Under Her Eye

By Lindy Ryan (editor) , Lee Murray (editor) ,

Book cover of Under Her Eye: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume II

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A Darker Shade of Noir

By Joyce Carol Oates (editor) ,

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Tales From The Parkland

By Ronald McGillvray ,

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Glass Cabin

By James Braziel , Tina Mozelle Braziel ,

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Daughters of Latin America

By Sandra Guzmán (editor) ,

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East Jerusalem Noir

By Rawya Jarjoura Burbara (editor) ,

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Tiny Nightmares

By Nadxieli Nieto , Lincoln Michel ,

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Sinophagia

By Xueting C. Ni (translator) ,

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Wonder

By Ana Sampson ,

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Devouring Tomorrow

By Jeff Dupuis (editor) , A.G. Pasquella (editor) ,

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Strange Pictures

By Uketsu , Jim Rion (translator) ,

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In Memory of Memory

By Maria Stepanova , Sasha Dugdale (translator) ,

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