Librarians love lists. There's a nice article in the online Time Magazine, selecting the 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the present. (How'd they choose the time frame? 1923 is the year Time Magazine began.) They're presented in alphabetical order, so one can't immediately pick out their top choices and ignore the rest.
The list includes the 1986 graphic novel Watchmen, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons; children's titles such as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; science fiction titles such as Snow Crash, Neuromancer and Ubik; titles as recent as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001) and Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000); and at least one we'd literally never heard of. (What? Oh. Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds.)
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