The 100 Most Influential Authors of the 20th Century

Some lists rank. This one doesn't. These one hundred writers were chosen because their work travelled, because readers found them and kept finding them, across borders, languages, and generations. Nobel laureates sit alongside genre pioneers, voices of political exile alongside architects of popular fiction. What they share is reach, and the kind of staying power that makes their books worth owning in any form.

The list is deliberately broad. It draws from every continent and dozens of literary traditions, and it resists the idea that influence belongs only to the canonised or the critically approved. A book that has been pressed into a stranger's hands a million times has earned its place here.

Where we have individual pages for an author, you'll find a link to their full profile and any signed first editions currently available. For the rest, click the name to explore signed copies directly.

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Angela Carter / Black Venus Signed 1st Edition 1985

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Nights at the Circus Angela Carter, SIGNED Stated 1st American Edition 1985 RARE

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SIGNED ANGELA CARTER The BLOODY CHAMBER & The COMPANY OF WOLVES

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Angela Carter "Nights at the Circus" SIGNED PB 1985 UK

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WISE CHILDREN by Angela Carter HC 1st UK Ed. VG SIGNED/INSCRIBED 1991 RARE

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Angela Carter / Fireworks Nine Stories in Various Disguises Signed 1st ed 1981

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Angela Carter NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS SIGNED 1st Edition 1st Printing

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Angela Carter: "Artificial Fire" 1st.Ed.HC Book w/DJ McClelland 1988 Signed

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Angela Carter – Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1st/1st UK 1985 SIGNED)

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Angela Carter / Nights at the Circus Signed 1st Edition 1985

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Angela Carter / Martin Leman's Comic & Curious Cats Signed 1st Edition 1979

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The Bloody Chamber ~ SIGNED by ANGELA CARTER ~ First American Edition ~ 1st 1979

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Angela Carter / Nights at the Circus Signed 1st Edition 1984

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angela carter / the bloody chamber Signed 1st Edition 1979

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Joseph McElroy-WOMEN & MEN: A NOVEL-1987-1ST/1ST ED-INSCRIBED TO ANGELA CARTER

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1985 Nights at the Circus Angela Carter Signed Dust Wrapper Third Impression

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1985 Nights at the Circus Angela Carter Signed Dust Wrapper Third Impression

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1984 Nights at the Circus Angela Carter First Edition Signed

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