<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></title><description><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek is a Canadian poet, translator and editor of To Heaven's Rim, a major anthology of world Christian poetry. He currently lives near Winnipeg with his wife and two kids.]]></description><link>https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tqvu!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc79a3f6-35fa-41da-8d12-302b10425051_1122x1123.jpeg</url><title>Burl Horniachek</title><link>https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:33:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[burlhorniachek254029@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[burlhorniachek254029@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[burlhorniachek254029@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[burlhorniachek254029@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Greatest Novels List]]></title><description><![CDATA[@joeljmiller challenged me to come up with my own list of 100 greatest novels. I didn't quite do that, but here is somewhere to start.]]></description><link>https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com/p/greatest-novels-list</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com/p/greatest-novels-list</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burl Horniachek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 01:04:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tqvu!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc79a3f6-35fa-41da-8d12-302b10425051_1122x1123.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Novels I have read and think have to be on the list:</strong></p><p>Don Quixote<br>In Search of Lost Time<br>Anna Karenina<br>War and Peace<br>The Brothers Karamazov<br>Crime and Punishment<br>Middlemarch<br>The Mill on the Floss<br>Adam Bede<br>A Tale of Two Cities<br>Bleak House<br>David Copperfield<br>Great Expectations<br>Ulysses<br>Portrait of the Artist<br>The Trial<br>Jane Eyre<br>Nana<br>Germinal<br>L&#8217;Assommoir<br>Toilers of the Sea<br>Notre Dame de Paris<br>Les Miserables<br>The Charterhouse of Parma<br>The Red and the Black<br>Eugenie Grandet<br>Cousin Bette<br>A Harlot High and Low<br>Lost Illusions<br>Old Goriot<br>Madame Bovary<br>Mansfield Park<br>Persuasion<br>Emma<br>To the Lighthouse<br>Mrs Dalloway<br>A Connecticut Yankee<br>Huckleberry Finn<br>The Scarlet Letter<br>Moby-Dick<br>Love in the Time of Cholera<br>Clarissa<br>Tristram Shandy<br>Tom Jones<br>Wuthering Heights<br>The Portrait of a Lady<br>Pale Fire<br>Invisible Man<br>Under Western Eyes<br>The Secret Agent<br>Lord Jim<br>Nostromo<br>Doctor Faustus<br>The Magic Mountain<br>Housekeeping<br>Gilead<br>The Wild Palms<br>Light in August<br>Absalom Absalom<br>As I Lay Dying<br>Disgrace<br>A Passage to India<br>Howards End<br>The Master and Margarita<br>Blood Meridian<br>Far from the Madding Crowd<br>The Return of the Native<br>Jude the Obscure<br>Women in Love<br>The Rainbow<br>Dr. Zhivago<br>My Struggle<br>The Elementary Particles<br>The Rebel Angels<br>Fifth Business<br>The Betrothed<br>Silence<br>Sabbath&#8217;s Theater<br>Operation Shylock<br>My Life as a Man<br>Portnoy&#8217;s Complaint<br>The Tale of Genji<br>Monday Begins on Saturday<br>Roadside Picnic<br>Fathers and Sons<br>Scoop<br>The Gospel According to Jesus Christ<br>Narcissus and Goldmund</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>I liked these a fair bit, but they aren&#8217;t on the same level as the above:</strong></p><p>Things Fall Apart<br>Sentimental Education<br>The Great Gatsby<br>Midnight&#8217;s Children<br>Beloved<br>Song of Solomon<br>The Left Hand of Darkness<br>The Sun Also Rises<br>A Farewell to Arms<br>My Antonia<br>A Bend in the River<br>The Leopard<br>Invisible Cities<br>Orlando<br>Vanity Fair<br>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<br>Frankenstein<br>Lolita<br>Pride and Prejudice<br>The Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress<br>Lord of the Rings<br>The Picture of Dorian Gray<br>Kim<br>The Wind in the Willows<br>All the King&#8217;s Men<br>A Confederacy of Dunces<br>The Sound and the Fury<br>Zuckerman Bound</p><p><strong>Some plausible candidates that I have not read:</strong></p><p>Dream of the Red Chamber<br>Journey to the West<br>Romance of the Three Kingdoms<br>The Death of Virgil<br>The Man Without Qualities<br>The Golden Bowl<br>The Ambassadors<br>Pedro P&#225;ramo<br>Life and Fate<br>Our Mutual Friend<br>A House for Mr. Biswas<br>Austerlitz<br>The Rings of Saturn<br>My Brilliant Friend<br>Never Let Me Go<br>The Remains of the Day<br>The Age of Innocence<br>The House of Mirth<br>Buddenbrooks<br>The Way We Live Now<br>Under the Volcano<br>Underworld<br>White Noise<br>Oscar and Lucinda<br>Illywhacker<br>The Kelly Gang<br>Death Comes to the Archbishop<br>Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell<br>Piranesi<br>Kristin Lavransdatter<br>The Castle<br>Jayber Crow<br>Explosion in a Cathedral<br>The Lost Steps<br>The Kingdom of this World<br>The Savage Detectives<br>2666<br>Blindness<br>Stoner<br>Dom Casmurro<br>Bras Cubas<br>Quncas Borba<br>La Regenta<br>Fortunata and Jacinta<br>The Maias<br>The Relic<br>Snow Country<br>The Makioka Sisters<br>Woman in the Dunes<br>Kokoro<br>The Temple of the Golden Pavillion<br>The Sea of Fertility<br>A Personal Matter</p><p>There may be more.</p><p><strong>Have appeared on various lists of this kind, of varying quality, but which I think implausible for the top 100, based either on my own reading or critical opinion:</strong></p><p>Robinson Crusoe<br>Wolf Hall<br>Wide Sargasso Sea<br>The Blue Flower<br>The Moonstone<br>Sense and Sensibility<br>Dracula<br>Brave New World<br>1984<br>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<br>Dune<br>Brideshead Revisited<br>Lonesome Dove<br>Rebecca<br>Kindred<br>The Talented Mr. Ripley<br>Catch 22<br>Jacob&#8217;s Room<br>The Bluest Eye<br>The Color Purple<br>Heart of Darkness<br>The Grapes of Wrath<br>East of Eden<br>Cry the Beloved Country<br>The Golden Notebook<br>The End of the Affair<br>The Power and the Glory<br>Ragtime<br>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<br>Giovanni&#8217;s Room<br>Go Tell It on the Mountain<br>Nightmare Abbey<br>Gone with the Wind<br>Arthur Gordon Pym<br>Sybil<br>Little Women<br>Kidnapped<br>The Sign of Four<br>New Grub Street<br>Call of the Wild<br>Mr. Polly<br>Zuleika Dobson<br>The 39 Steps<br>Of Human Bondage<br>Babbitt<br>1919<br>Tropic of Cancer<br>The Big Sleep<br>Party Going<br>At Swim Two-Birds<br>The Heat of the Day<br>The Catcher in the Rye<br>Lord of the Flies<br>On the Road<br>Voss<br>To Kill a Mockingbird<br>A Single Man<br>A Clockwork Orange<br>Rabbit novels<br>Mrs. Palfrey<br>The Bell Jar<br>In Cold Blood<br>That Hideous Strength<br>Fahrenheit 451<br>Laurus<br>Peace Like a River<br>Wise Blood<br>The Moviegoer<br>True Grit<br>The Island of the World<br>American Pastoral<br>Their Eyes Were Watching God<br>The Count of Monte Cristo</p><p><strong>Have appeared on some lists, but I don&#8217;t know enough about these:</strong></p><p>Almost Spring<br>The Line of Beauty<br>The Vegetarian<br>The Transit of Venus<br>The God of Small Things<br>A Fine Balance<br>Artist of the Floating World<br>The Beginning of Spring<br>Breathing Lessons</p><p>I&#8217;ve excluded novellas.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://burlhorniachek254029.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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