• Character: 100 twentieth century works written in English, ranked, limited to fiction (including children's fiction).
• Bias: Popular, reflecting the tastes and opinions of booksellers, presumably colored by what they know is selling.
• Flaws: Inclusion errors (admits a translation and non-fictional and 19th century works into its canon)

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Ulysses by James Joyce
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
4. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
5. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
6. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
7. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
8. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
9. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10. Beloved by Toni Morrison
11. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
13. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
14. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
15. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
16. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. Native Son by Richard Wright
19. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
20. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
21. Animal Farm by George Orwell
22. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
23. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
24. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
25. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
28. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
29. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
30. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
31. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
32. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
33. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
34. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
35. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
36. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
37. My Antonia by Willa Cather
38. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
39. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
40. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
41. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
42. Howards End by E. M. Forster
43. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
44. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
45. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
46. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
47. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
48. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
49. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
50. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
51. The World According to Garp by John Irving
52. White Noise by Don DeLillo
53. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
54. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
55. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
56. Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
57. Possession by A.S. Byatt
58. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
59. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
60. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
61. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
62. Dune by Frank Herbert
63. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
64. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
65. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
66. The Stand by Stephen King
67. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
68. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
69. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
70. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
71. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
72. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
73. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
74. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
75. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
76. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
77. Watership Down by Richard Adams
78. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
79. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
80. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
81. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
82. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
83. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
84. Hawaii by James Albert Michener
85. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
86. Sula by Toni Morrison
87. The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
88. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
89. Time and Again by Jack Finney
90. Centennial by James A. Michener
91. Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
92. Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
93. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
94. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
95. Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
96. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
97. The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
98. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
99. The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
100. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

Source from 

1. https://www.themodernnovel.org/their-lists/other-best-of-lists/
2. ​https://web.stanford.edu