Highest Ranked Anthologies of the 2020s

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Note: Some recent awards are yet to be integrated into the database.
Scoring: Wins are worth 50 points, nominations and second places are worth 35 points. For polls, third and lower places are worth (33-poll position) points.

Place	Score	Year	Title	Type	Authors
1	192	2020	Black Cranes	ANTHOLOGY	Geneve Flynn and Lee Murray
2	149	2021	When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
3	105	2021	The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021): Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald
4	105	2020	Shadows & Tall Trees 8	ANTHOLOGY	Michael Kelly
5	100	2021	We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020	ANTHOLOGY	C. L. Clark and Charles Payseur
6	85	2021	Tortured Willows	ANTHOLOGY	Geneve Flynn and Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith and Christina Sng
7	85	2020	Rebuilding Tomorrow	ANTHOLOGY	Tsana Dolichva
8	85	2020	The Book of Dragons	ANTHOLOGY	Jonathan Strahan
9	80	2020	Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Volume One)	ANTHOLOGY	Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald and Zelda Knight
10	79	2020	The Big Book of Modern Fantasy	ANTHOLOGY	Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
11	74	2020	A Phoenix First Must Burn	ANTHOLOGY	Patrice Caldwell
12	70	2021	Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition)	ANTHOLOGY	Charlatan Bardot and Eric J. Guignard
13	70	2021	There Is No Death, There Are No Dead	ANTHOLOGY	Aaron J. French and Jess Landry
14	70	2020	After Sundown	ANTHOLOGY	Mark Morris
15	70	2020	Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors	ANTHOLOGY	Michael Bailey and Doug Murano
16	69	2021	Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Xueting Christine Ni
17	67	2021	Relics, Wrecks & Ruins	ANTHOLOGY	Aiki Flinthart
18	62	2020	Made to Order: Robots and Revolution	ANTHOLOGY	Jonathan Strahan
19	61	2020	Edited by	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
20	60	2021	Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology	ANTHOLOGY	Sarah Rafael Garcia and Matthew David Goodwin and Alex Hernandez
21	55	2021	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Paula Guran
22	51	2021	Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories	ANTHOLOGY	Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
23	51	2020	Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	Joshua Whitehead
24	35	2021	Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology	ANTHOLOGY	Steven M. Long and S. D. Vassallo
25	35	2021	Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies	ANTHOLOGY	Deborah Sheldon
26	35	2021	It Came From the Trailer Park	ANTHOLOGY	William Joseph Roberts
27	35	2021	Blood on the Blade: Ten Tales of Slashing Swords and Sinister Sorcery	ANTHOLOGY	Jim Beard and John C. Bruening
28	35	2021	Out of the Darkness	ANTHOLOGY	Dan Coxon
29	35	2021	Food of My People	ANTHOLOGY	Candas Jane Dorsey and Ursula Pflug
30	35	2021	Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign	ANTHOLOGY	James Chambers
31	35	2021	Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand	ANTHOLOGY	Craig Gamble
32	35	2021	Who Sleuthed It?	ANTHOLOGY	Lindy Cameron
33	35	2021	Attack from the '80s	ANTHOLOGY	Eugene Johnson
34	35	2021	Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales	ANTHOLOGY	Poppy Nwosu
35	35	2021	Dreamland: Other Stories	ANTHOLOGY	Sophie Essex
36	35	2021	Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V3	ANTHOLOGY	Marie Hodgkinson
37	35	2021	Robots	ANTHOLOGY	Fabrice Carré?Fabrice Carre and Alexandre Marcinkowski
38	35	2021	La machine à indifférence et autres nouvelles	ANTHOLOGY	Tony Sanchez and Denis Taillandier
39	35	2020	Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror	ANTHOLOGY	Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
40	35	2020	Africanfuturism	ANTHOLOGY	Wole Talabi
41	35	2020	Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas	ANTHOLOGY	Rhonda Parrish
42	35	2020	After Australia	ANTHOLOGY	Michael Mohammed Ahmad
43	35	2020	Prairie Gothic	ANTHOLOGY	Stacey Kondla
44	35	2020	Arterial Bloom	ANTHOLOGY	Mercedes M. Yardley
45	35	2020	Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers	ANTHOLOGY	Lydia Rogue
46	35	2020	Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror	ANTHOLOGY	Samantha Kolesnik
47	35	2020	Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V2	ANTHOLOGY	Marie Hodgkinson
48	35	2020	The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume One	ANTHOLOGY	Ryan Cagle and James D. Jenkins
49	35	2020	Unnatural Order	ANTHOLOGY	Alis Franklin and Lyss Wickramasinghe
50	35	2020	Not All Monsters	ANTHOLOGY	Sara Tantlinger
51	30	2021	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Jonathan Strahan
52	29	2020	Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die	ANTHOLOGY	Dave Ring
53	28	2021	Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness	ANTHOLOGY	Dave Ring
54	27	2021	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021	ANTHOLOGY	Veronica Roth
55	26	2021	The Best of World SF: Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Lavie Tidhar
56	25	2021	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Thirteen	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
57	25	2020	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Jonathan Strahan
58	23	2021	Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices	ANTHOLOGY	Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington
59	23	2020	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 5	ANTHOLOGY	Neil Clarke
60	22	2021	Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
61	21	2021	The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 2	ANTHOLOGY	Tarun K. Saint
62	21	2020	The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020	ANTHOLOGY	Diana Gabaldon
63	21	2020	Monstrous Tales: Stories of Strange Creatures and Fearsome Beasts from Around the World	ANTHOLOGY	uncredited
64	20	2020	Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire	ANTHOLOGY	Nicole Givens Kurtz
65	19	2020	Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
66	18	2021	Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future	ANTHOLOGY	Gideon Lichfield
67	18	2020	Avatars Inc.	ANTHOLOGY	Ann VanderMeer
68	17	2020	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve	ANTHOLOGY	Ellen Datlow
69	16	2020	Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends	ANTHOLOGY	Sheila Williams
70	15	2020	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2020	ANTHOLOGY	Rich Horton
71	14	2020	Avatar अवतार: Indian Science Fiction / Fantascienza Indiana	ANTHOLOGY	Tarun K. Saint and Francesco Verso
72	13	2020	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume 1	ANTHOLOGY	Paula Guran
73	12	2020	London Centric: Tales of Future London	ANTHOLOGY	Ian Whates
74	11	2020	That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction	ANTHOLOGY	uncredited
75	10	2020	A Sinister Quartet	ANTHOLOGY	Mike Allen and C. S. E. Cooney and Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick
76	9	2020	The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic	ANTHOLOGY	Editors of The New York Times
77	8	2020	Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3	ANTHOLOGY	William Schafer
78	1	2020	Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa	ANTHOLOGY	Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen
79	1	2020	Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite	ANTHOLOGY	Zoraida Córdova?Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker
80	1	2020	Jingle Spells: Witchy Christmas Stories	ANTHOLOGY	uncredited

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