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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Murakami, Haruki Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. SIGNED, NUMBERED, LIMITED 1st ed

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SIGNED South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami 1st Ed 1999, HCDJ

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SIGNED Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Haruki Murakami. 2014 1st Edition w/ Ephemera

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Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Signed Book

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SIGNED Haruki Murakami First Person Singular HC US 1st/1st New & Unused

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SIGNED Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami. 2005 1st Limited Edition 1/1000

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HARUKI MURAKAMI SIGNED - FIRST PERSON SINGULAR - Limited Hardcover First Edition

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Haruki Murakami NORWEGIAN WOOD True English 1st/1st 1989 Rare Books not signed

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AFTER DARK - 1ST. AMERICAN ED. SIGNED BY HARUKI MURAKAMI

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Haruki Murakami *Signed* Novelist As A Vocation. Mint/1st HB black edge stencil

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Haruki Murakami-AFTER DARK: A NOVEL-2007-1ST/1ST US EDITION-SIGNED & STAMPED-NF

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Haruki Murakami PINBALL 1973 True English 1st/1st 1985 Rare Book not signed

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Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore SIGNED Ltd Ed 1/1000 Harvill 2005 MINT

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Dance Dance Dance ~ SIGNED by HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ First American Edition 1st 1994

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City and Its Uncertain Walls ~ HARUKI MURAKAMI Signed Limited First Edition 2024

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Haruki Murakami / Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years Limited Signed 1st 2014

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Koichi Inagoshi, Ailleurs 1969-1992, Preface, Haruki Murakami's " signed

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Korean)

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