评选人是《时代》评论家Lev Grossman和Richard Lacayo，评选时限为1923年（《时代杂志》创刊的年份）至今，范围是全世界，语种是英语。100部小说名单如下（依篇名字母排序）：
PS:最近新增 Brideshead Revisited [旧地重游] A Death in the Family I, Claudius[我,克劳迪斯]Possession:A Romance[占有：一段罗曼史] Atonement[赎罪] Gravity's Rainbow[万有引力之虹] The Crying of Lot 49[拍卖第49号] Rabbit Run[兔子，跑吧] White Noise[白噪音] The Sun Also Rises[太阳照样升起] The Heart of the Matter[事情的核心/问题的核心] The Power and the Glory[权力与荣耀] Snow Crash[雪崩] Things Fall Apart[瓦解/生命中不可承受之重] Invisible Man[隐形人] The Adventures of Augie March[奥吉·马奇历险记] Lucky Jim[幸运的吉姆] A House for Mr.Biswas[毕斯瓦思先生之屋] Gone with the Wind[飘] A Clockwork Orange[发条橙子] The Heart is a Lonely Hunter[心是孤独的猎手] White Teeth[白色的牙齿] Pale Fire[幽冥的火] Never Let Me Go[别让我走] To the Lighthouse[到灯塔去]、Mrs. Dalloway[达罗薇夫人]
The Adventures of Augie Marchby Saul Bellow
All the King’s Menby Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral[美国牧歌]by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy[美国悲剧]by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm[动物农庄]by George Orwell
Appointment in Samarraby John O’Hara
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaretby Judy Blume
The Assistantby Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birdsby Flann O’Brien
Atonementby Ian McEwan
Beloved[宠儿]by Toni Morrison ,pdf
The Berlin Storiesby Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep[夜长梦多]by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin[盲人杀手]by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian[血色子午线]by Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited [旧地重游] by Evelyn Waugh
TheBridgeofSan LuisReybyThorntonWilder
Call It Sleepby Henry Roth
Catch-22[第二十二条军规]by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye[麦田里的守望者]by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange[发条橙子]by Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turnerby William Styron
The Correctionsby Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49[拍卖第49号]by Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Timeby Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locustby Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop[大主教之死]by Willa Cather
A Death in the Familyby James Agee
The Death of the Heartby Elizabeth Bowen
Deliveranceby James Dickey
Dog Soldiersby Robert Stone
Falconerby John Cheever来源：
The French Lieutenant’s Womanby John Fowles
The Golden Notebookby Doris Lessig
Go Tell it on the Mountainby James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind[飘]by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath[愤怒的葡萄]by John Steinbeck
Gravity’s Rainbowby Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby[了不起的盖茨比]by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust[一掬尘土]by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter[心是孤独的猎手]by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter[事情的核心/问题的核心]by Graham Greene
Herzogby Saul Bellow
Housekeeping[管家]by Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas[毕斯瓦思先生之屋]by V.S. Naipaul
I, Claudius[我,克劳迪斯]by Robert Graves
Infinite Jestby David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man[隐形人]by Ralph Ellison
Light in August[八月之光]by William Faulkner
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe[女巫狮子和魔衣橱]by C.S. Lewis
Lolita[洛丽塔]by Vladimir Naboko
Lord of the Flies[蝇王]by William Golding
The Lord of the Ringsby J.R.R. Tolkein
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Lovingby Henry Green来源：考试大
Lucky Jim[幸运的吉姆]by Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Childrenby Christina Stead
Midnight's Childrenby Salman Rushdie
Moneyby Martin Amis
The Moviegoerby Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway[达罗薇夫人]by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch[裸体午餐]by William Burroughs
Native Sonby Richard Wright
Neuromancer[神经漫游者]by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go[别让我走]by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984[一九八四]by George Orwell
On the Road[在路上]by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest[飞越疯人院]by Ken Kesey
The Painted Birdby Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire[幽冥的火]by Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India[印度之行]by E.M. Forster
Play It As It Laysby Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaintby Philip Roth
Posessionby A.S. Byatt来源：考试大
The Power and the Glory[权力与荣耀]by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run[兔子，跑吧]by John Updike
Ragtimeby E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitionsby William Gaddis
Red Harvest[红色收获]by Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Roadby Richard Yates
The Sheltering Skyby Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five[第五号屠场]by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash[雪崩]by Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factorby John Barth
The Sound and the Fury[喧哗与骚动]by William Faulkner
The Sportswriterby Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold[柏林谍影] by John LeCarre
The Sun Also Rises[太阳照样升起]by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart[瓦解/生命中不可承受之重]by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird[杀死一只知更鸟]by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse[到灯塔去]by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer[北回归线]by Henry Miller
Ubikby Philip K. Dick来源：
Under the Netby Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcanoby Malcolm Lowrey
Watchmenby Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
White Noise[白噪音]by Don DeLillo
White Teeth[白色的牙齿]by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys