网络流传已久的“《时代周刊》评选出史上最伟大的100部长篇小说”这个排行榜是假的，这个排行榜和《时代周刊》毛关系都没有。它实际上出自一位美国学者、丹尼尔·S.伯特（Daniel S. Burt）在2004年出版的一本书，《史上最牛掰的100部小说》（The Novel 100: A Ranking of Greatest Novels All Time，Checkmark Books/Facts On File, Inc.: New York, 2004）。
尼尔·S.伯特是何许人也呢？看资料介绍，他在纽约大学拿到文学博士学位，研究领域是维多利亚小说，在卫斯理大学教过九年的英语文学。如果从他的著书来看，无疑是想成为文学界的百晓生。这本书还被翻译成了中文，译名叫《世界一百位文学大师排行榜》。仔细地研究了一下他的榜单，其中小编看过部分或基本了解的有54%，完整看过的有42%。这是一个非常中规中矩的排行榜，排得还是有一些优点的，一是上榜作品都经过时间的洗礼；二是上榜作品都走在主流的文学脉络上。所以对我们还是有一定参考意义的。网络上流传的版本和原书的排行有些出入，且解说部分似乎是用了某本苏联文艺观的文学教科书，比较粗俗。
1 Don Quixote堂吉诃德1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
2 War and Peace战争与和平 1869 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox
3 Ulysses尤利西斯 1922 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)
4 In Search of Lost Time追寻逝去的时光 1913-27 Marcel Proust Jewish Catholic
5 The Brothers Karamazov卡拉马佐夫兄弟 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox
6 Moby-Dick白鲸 1851 Herman Melville Transcendentalist
7 Madame Bovary包法利夫人 1857 Gustave Flaubert Catholic
8 Middlemarch米德尔马契 1871-72 George Eliot Anglican; agnostic
9 The Magic Mountain魔山 1924 Thomas Mann Lutheran
10 The Tale of Genji源氏物语 11th Century Murasaki Shikibu Buddhist/Shinto culture
11 Emma爱玛 1816 Jane Austen Anglican
12 Bleak House荒凉山庄 1852-53 Charles Dickens Anglican
13 Anna Karenina安娜•卡列尼娜1877 Leo Tolstoy Russian Orthodox
14 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn哈克贝利•费恩历险记1884 Mark Twain Presbyterian
15 Tom Jones弃儿汤姆•琼斯的历史1749 Henry Fielding
16 Great Expectations远大前程 1860-61 Charles Dickens Anglican
17 Absalom, Absalom! 押沙龙，押沙龙! 1936 William Faulkner Presbyterian
18 The Ambassadors专使1903 Henry James Anglican
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude百年孤独 1967 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Catholic
20 The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald Catholic
21 To The Lighthouse到灯塔去 1927 Virginia Woolf Neo-pagan
22 Crime and Punishment罪与罚 1866 Feodor Dostoevsky Russian Orthodox
23 The Sound and the Fury喧哗与骚动 1929 William Faulkner Presbyterian
24 Vanity Fair名利场 1847-48 William Makepeace Thackeray
25 Invisible Man看不见的人1952 Ralph Ellison
26 Finnegans Wake芬尼根守灵1939 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)
27 The Man Without Qualities没有个性的人 1930-43 Robert Musil Catholic
28 Gravity""""s Rainbow万有引力之虹1973 Thomas Pynchon Catholic; agnostic
29 The Portrait of a Lady一位女士的画像1881 Henry James Anglican
30 Women in Love恋爱中的女人1920 D. H. Lawrence
31 The Red and the Black红与黑 1830 Stendhal Catholic
32 Tristram Shandy项狄传1760-67 Laurence Sterne Anglican (Church of Ireland clergyman)
33 Dead Souls死魂灵 1842 Nikolai Gogol Russian Orthodox
34 Tess of the D""""Urbervilles德伯家的苔丝1891 Thomas Hardy
35 Buddenbrooks布登勃洛克家族1901 Thomas Mann Lutheran
36 Le Pere Goriot高老头 1835 Honore de Balzac Catholic
37 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man一个青年艺术家的自画像1916 James Joyce Catholic (lapsed)
38 Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄 1847 Emily Bronte Anglican
39 The Tin Drum铁皮鼓 1959 Gunter Grass Catholic
40 Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable马洛伊；马洛纳之死；无名的人1951-53 Samuel Beckett Church of Ireland (Anglican)
41 Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见 1813 Jane Austen Anglican
42 The Scarlet Letter红字 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendentalist
43 Fathers and Sons父与子 1862 Ivan Turgenev Russian Orthodox; agnostic
44 Nostromo诺斯托罗莫1904 Joseph Conrad Catholic; atheist
45 Beloved宠儿 1987 Toni Morrison
46 An American Tragedy美国的悲剧 1925 Theodore Dreiser Catholic; Congregationalist; Chrisitan Science
47 Lolita洛丽塔 1955 Vladimir Nabokov Russian Orthodox
48 The Golden Notebook金色笔记 1962 Doris Lessing
49 Clarissa克拉丽莎1747-48 Samuel Richardson
50 Dream of the Red Chamber红楼梦 1791 Cao Xueqin
51 审判 1925 Franz Kafka Jewish
52 简•爱1847 Charlotte Bronte Anglican
53 红色英勇勋章1895 Stephen Crane Methodist
54 愤怒的葡萄 1939 John Steinbeck Episcopalian
55 彼得堡 1916/1922 Andrey Bely Russian Orthodox; Theosophy; Spiritualism
56 瓦解 1958 Chinue Achebe
57 克莱弗公主1678 Madame de Lafayette
58 局外人 1942 Albert Camus Catholic; Existentialism
59 我的安东尼娅1918 Willa Cather Episcopalian
60 wei chao 制造者1926 Andre Gide
61 The Age of Innocence纯真年代 1920 Edith Wharton
62 The Good Soldier好兵 1915 Ford Madox Ford Catholic; agnostic
63 The Awakening觉醒 1899 Kate Chopin Catholic
64 A Passage to India印度之行 1924 E. M. Forster
65 Herzog赫索格1964 Saul Bellow Orthodox Jew (lapsed); Anthroposophist
66 Germinal萌芽1855 Emile Zola Catholic
67 Call It Sleep安睡吧 1934 Henry Roth Jewish
68 U.S.A. Trilogy美国三部曲 1930-38 John Dos Passos Catholic
69 Hunger饥饿 1890 Knut Hamsun
70 Berlin Alexanderplatz柏林亚历山大广场1929 Alfred Doblin Catholic
71 Cities of Salt 1984-89 """"Abd al-Rahman Munif
72 The Death of Artemio Cruz克鲁兹之死1962 Carlos Fuentes Catholic
73 A Farewell to Arms永别了，武器 1929 Ernest Hemingway Catholic
74 Brideshead Revisited故园风雨后1945 Evelyn Waugh Catholic
75 The Last Chronicle of Barset巴塞特的最后纪事1866-67 Anthony Trollope Anglican
76 The Pickwick Papers匹克威克外传1836-67 Charles Dickens Anglican
77 Robinson Crusoe鲁宾逊漂流记1719 Daniel Defoe Protestant Dissenter (Presbyterian)
78 The Sorrows of Young Werther少年维特之烦恼 1774 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deist
79 Candide老实人 1759 Voltaire raised in Jansenism; later Deist
80 Native Son土生子 1940 Richard Wright Seventh-day Adventist; Communist
81 Under the Volcano在火山下 1947 Malcolm Lowry Methodist; Anglican; agnostic
82 Oblomov欧布罗莫夫1859 Ivan Goncharov
83 Their Eyes Were Watching God凝望上帝1937 Zora Neale Hurston
84 Waverley威弗利1814 Sir Walter Scott Anglican
85 Snow Country雪国 1937, 1948 Kawabata Yasunari
86 Nineteen Eighty-Four1984 1949 George Orwell Anglican
87 The Betrothed约婚夫妇1827, 1840 Alessandro Manzoni Catholic
88 The Last of the Mohicans最后一个莫希干人1826 James Fenimore Cooper Episcopalian
89 Uncle Tom""""s Cabin汤姆叔叔的小屋1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe Episcopalian; Congregationalist
90 Les Miserables悲惨世界 1862 Victor Hugo Catholic
91 On the Road在路上 1957 Jack Kerouac Catholic; Buddhism
92 Frankenstein弗兰肯斯坦1818 Mary Shelley
93 The Leopard豹 1958 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Catholic
94 The Catcher in the Rye麦田里的守望者1951 J.D. Salinger Jewish Catholic; Scientologist
95 The Woman in White白衣女人1860 Wilkie Collins
96 The Good Soldier Svejk好兵帅克1921-23 Jaroslav Hasek Catholic
97 Dracula德古拉1897 Bram Stoker Church of Ireland (Anglican)
98 The Three Musketeers三个火枪手1844 Alexandre Dumas agnostic; Catholic
99 The Hound of Baskervilles巴斯克维尔的猎犬1902 Arthur Conan Doyle Catholic; Spiritualist
100 Gone with the Wind飘 1936 Margaret Mitchell Catholic
