selected works
Chosen pieces gathered
Selected works refers to a curated collection of an artist's, writer's, or composer's output—pieces chosen to represent their best or most significant achievements rather than everything they produced.
The selection implies editorial judgment: The museum exhibited selected works from Picasso's blue period.
Publishers often release selected works as introductions to prolific creators whose complete output would overwhelm newcomers.
- omnibusVolume of gathered writings
- anthologyCollected literary works volume
- compendiumCondensed reference collection
- collected essaysAssembled nonfiction prose works
- compilationGathered works assembled together
portfolio · collected poems · chosen · title · curated · documents · handpicked · hand picked · poetry collection · best of · retrospective · literary canon · excerpts · reader · volume · treasury · career retrospective · essentials
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- collectionscollection, collections, anthology, anthologies, compilation
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- art exhibitsgallery tours, art gallery, gallery walls, gallery space, exhibition
- compilationsanthology, compilation, anthologies, collection, collected stories
- recordingsaudio recording, albums, studio albums, video recording, live albums
selected workscomplete works
Entire literary output
collected works · complete edition · complete writings · oeuvre · total output
selected worksminor works
Lesser creative output
unpublished manuscripts · ephemera · miscellany · unpublished works · juvenilia