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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as polar)
avg rating 4.46 — 169,497 ratings — published 1959
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as polar)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,468,747 ratings — published 2005
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as polar)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,639,534 ratings — published 1939
The Worst Journey in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as polar)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,535 ratings — published 1922
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as polar)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,795 ratings — published 2021
La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (Marcus Goldman, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as polar)
avg rating 4.20 — 244,927 ratings — published 2012
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as polar)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,198 ratings — published 2014
L'homme aux cercles bleus (Commissaire Adamsberg, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as polar)
avg rating 3.66 — 13,644 ratings — published 1991
Have Mercy on Us All (Commissaire Adamsberg, #4)
by (shelved 39 times as polar)
avg rating 4.03 — 8,251 ratings — published 2001
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 38 times as polar)
avg rating 4.26 — 991,542 ratings — published 2006
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 38 times as polar)
avg rating 4.20 — 742,031 ratings — published 1934
Erebus: The Story of a Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as polar)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,790 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 35 times as polar)
avg rating 4.24 — 779,746 ratings — published 2007
The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as polar)
avg rating 3.76 — 89,705 ratings — published 2003
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as polar)
avg rating 4.19 — 11,452 ratings — published 1919
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as polar)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,539,603 ratings — published 2003
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as polar)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,315,190 ratings — published 2015
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as polar)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,254 ratings — published 2007
Seeking Whom He May Devour (Commissaire Adamsberg, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as polar)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,614 ratings — published 1999
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as polar)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,809 ratings — published 1987
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as polar)
avg rating 3.79 — 97,891 ratings — published 1987
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
by (shelved 27 times as polar)
avg rating 4.14 — 392,049 ratings — published 1902
Un lieu incertain (Commissaire Adamsberg, #8)
by (shelved 27 times as polar)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,605 ratings — published 2008
Temps glaciaires (Commissaire Adamsberg, #10)
by (shelved 26 times as polar)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,877 ratings — published 2015
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 26 times as polar)
avg rating 4.26 — 353,377 ratings — published 1926
Dans les bois éternels (Commissaire Adamsberg, #7)
by (shelved 26 times as polar)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,787 ratings — published 2006
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as polar)
avg rating 4.34 — 21,849 ratings — published 1998
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand (Commissaire Adamsberg, #6)
by (shelved 24 times as polar)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,615 ratings — published 2004
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as polar)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,596,053 ratings — published 2022
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as polar)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,003 ratings — published 2006
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as polar)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,582 ratings — published 1979
Entre deux mondes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as polar)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,181 ratings — published 2017
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as polar)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,120 ratings — published 2000
Shackleton's Boat Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as polar)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,252 ratings — published 1933
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 21 times as polar)
avg rating 4.12 — 310,519 ratings — published 1937
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as polar)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,767 ratings — published 2021
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as polar)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,935 ratings — published 2019
Quand sort la recluse (Commissaire Adamsberg, #11)
by (shelved 21 times as polar)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,154 ratings — published 2017
The Preacher (Patrik Hedström, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as polar)
avg rating 3.83 — 48,531 ratings — published 2004
The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,226 ratings — published 2012
An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,483 ratings — published 2000
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,105 ratings — published 2010
The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (Commissaire Adamsberg, #9)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,150 ratings — published 2011
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,118 ratings — published 1986
Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 3.76 — 79,545 ratings — published 1991
Coule la Seine (Commissaire Adamsberg, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as polar)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,295 ratings — published 2002
The Three Evangelists (Three Evangelists, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as polar)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,397 ratings — published 1995
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as polar)
avg rating 4.13 — 498,823 ratings — published 1887
Sur la Dalle (Commissaire Adamsberg, #12)
by (shelved 18 times as polar)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,374 ratings — published 2023
“I must say that the charm of the Arctic, its infinite diversity, its aloofness from the rest of the world, made it a field which gives its own reward. Only those who have seen the magnificent sunsets over the ice, who have…been buffeted by storms… can appreciate the spell which always draws us back there.”
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“I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.”
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