Here's the list that helped inspire me to pick up a few very interesting-seeming non-fiction books to read this year...
Time's Top 100 Non-Fiction books published since 1923:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..._Fiction_Books
Here's the Time's list of the top 100 Novels, they released this in 2005:
http://entertainment.time.com/2005/1...00-novels/#all