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.

Signed works by Franz Kafka on eBay

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Franz Kafka 'The Trial' Signed Edition 1998 Schocken Books, NY

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THE TRIAL Franz Kafka Limited Editions Club 1975 Signed By: Alan Cober1261/2000

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FRANZ KAFKA und AMERIKA by Gerhard Loose 1968 GERMAN Paperback INSCRIBED

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1984 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka SIGNED BY Artist Jose Luis Cuevas Limited Edition

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The Trial by Franz Kafka ~ Limited Editions Club w/Slipcase ~ Artist Signed

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The Trial by Franz Kafka.Limited Editions Club w/Slipcase.Artist Signed. Great!!

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METAMORPHOSIS BY FRANZ KAFKA 1984 LTD 1500 / 1261 SIGNED BY THE ARTIST

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The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Easton Press, 2016. Deluxe signed edition

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1971 Janus Press Kafka Conversation w/ Supplicant Signed Van Vliet 1/100

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Amos Oz, Fima, *Signed* 1st/1st F/F Israel Franz Kafka, Primo Levi Prizes

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METAMORPHOSIS DELUXE LTD Franz Kafka- Easton Press🖋SIGNED BY ILLUS SEALED w/BOX

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Franz Kafka / Kafka ou l'irréductible espoir inscribed by Rochefort Signed

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Franz KAFKA / Conjunctions Paper Airplane The Thirtieth Issue Signed 1st ed 1998

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William S WILSON / Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka Signed 1st Edition 1977

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In The Penal Colony Franz Kafka Limited Editions Club No. 463/800, Signed

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Janus Press, Franz | Kafka / A Country Doctor / Ein Landarzt Signed 1st ed 1962

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Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka - 1962, Modern Library - Hardcover + DJ

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The Trial (Paperback or Softback)

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