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):
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)Author: Saul Bellow
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens through numberless occupations and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.—R.L. Continue Reading »
