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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Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, signed 1st edition, 1995, unread copy

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Rushdie, Salman. Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies. Signed, First American Ed.

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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Days Signed by Salman Rushdie 2015

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Salman Rushdie / THE WIZARD OF OZ Signed 2001 PB

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