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