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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Günter GRASS / From the Diary of a Snail Signed 1st Edition 1973

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The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass, Hardcover, 1992, Signed, 1st US Edition

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The Flounder 3 Volumes by Günter Grass 1985 HC Slipcase Good Condition

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Mein Jahrhundert (My Century) by Gunter Grass, SIgned

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1967 Ausgefragt Gunter Grass 1st Edition SIGNED by Grass, Nobel Prize Winner

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Günter Grass, Kate Lewin / Werkverzeichnis der Radierungen Signed 1st 1978

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Günter Grass, Michael Hamburger / Selected Poems Signed 1st Edition 1966

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Günter Grass - The Call of the Toad; SIGNED 1st/1st

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THE FLOUNDER by Grass, Günter; Ralph Manheim, translator Signed By Author

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Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim / CAT AND MOUSE Signed 1963

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GÜNTER GRASS: NOVEMBERLAND 13 Sonette (2001, Steidl); SIGNED, AS-NEW CONDITION!

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Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim / RAT Signed 1st Edition 1987

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Rare, The Flounder by Gunter Grass, Signed 1st Edition

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Headbirths Or The Germans Are Dying Out *SIGNED* By Grass, Gunter

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Günter Grass, Michael Henry Heim / PEELING THE ONION Signed 1st ed 2007

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Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim / SPEAK OUT Signed 1st Edition 1969

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The Flounder - Signed by Gunter Grass - 1st US Edition Hardcover - Nobel Prize

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