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Ice Queens, Snow Kingdoms, Frozen Wastelands... Any books to do with the cold
Night Myst 5 book series. I've only read book 4, but that definitely was a wintery book. Some fae/vampire hybrid problem arises and the winter queen is killed, the usurper turns all of fae into a winter terror land.Perhaps try to get your hands on the 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 comics? Many of them are set in Alaska during the winter.
The Snow Queen. This is part of a series where fairy tale tropes rule everything, from the weather to the people to fate. The whole series is very good, and this one is about the snow queen (obviously), and how she deals with the job and endless winter.
I like books set in cold weather. Here's a few of mineTrapped YA Kids trapped in a school due to snowstorm
Winter Camp YA/MG Brother and sister survive in a cabin in extreme cold
Brian's WinterFar North YA Plane crash
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Non Fiction: Plane Crash
Subterranean Thriller starts in the Antarctic- then gets warmer
Ice Hunt Thriller set in the Arctic
The Ice Limit Thriller- Most of the cold is at the end of this book
Ice Cold Mystery
Terminal Freeze Thriller set in the Arctic
The Cry of the Icemark Fantasy set in a cold climate
Soldiers of Ice Fantasy set on a glacier
Swan Song Nuclear Winter
The Yuletide Rescue Romance set in Alaska
Ice Storm YA/ MG about a large ice storm that shut down an area in Canada for a month
Gideon's Gift Fiction set in a city in the winter
Rosa wrote: "I love these kinds of requests. East
Rover
The Sea of Trolls
On the Banks of Plum Creek"
For a really wintery book in the Little House series The Long Winter definitely fits the bill.
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow -A retelling of the Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon Snow Like Ashes -The whole series takes place in a kingdom modeled after Winter.
You might also like:Winter's Child: A Retelling of The Snow Queen by Cameron Dokey
The Wizard of London by Mercedes Lackey
'The Winter King' by CL Wilson Absolutely amazing romance story set in an alternate universe and follows the heroine, who has power over storms, and her marriage to the hero, who lives in a frozen land, Wintercraig?(sorry I think that's the name) If you're looking for cold this book has frozen!!
It is extremely well-written and one of my go to reads! All the elements blend together so well, the romance, the powers, the adventure, and the amazing world!!
Also ditto about the heat! This summers really kicked it up in the last couple weeks or so!
Such a great selection, thanks everyone! I'm totally going to try to get through all of them
If i recall, there was a book series called Cold Magic that was pretty interesting.
You MUST read Blood and Ice by Robert Masello. Pretty much the ultimate cold weather story as it's a supernatural thriller that takes place in Antarctica when a research team stumbles across a person frozen in a block of ice during a dive. Incredible atmosphere.I also second the suggestion of Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen (murder mystery in an eerily empty town in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard). And another good blizzard thriller is 1222 by Anne Holt. I haven't been that engaged by the other novels I've read from her but that one is great.
The Abominable by Dan Simmons takes place on Mount Everest and suits what you're looking for as well.
It's funny, this is actually a theme that I'm quite fond of myself and I was going to start looking for recommendations for this same subject, so you beat me to it!
Stealing snow by danielle paige. Snow queen retelling.
The Terror about an Arctic expedition with a touch of horror.And seconding Natasha's suggestion of The Snow Child.
Ah, thought of more! The Child Thief and Red Winter, both thrillers by Dan Smith. In The Child Thief, an army veteran in 1930, sets off across the frozen landscape of western Ukraine in pursuit of kidnapper. Red Winter takes place in Russia in 1920 and is about a man who returns home after deserting from the army to find his village abandoned. He goes in search of his wife and children. Both are excellently written and feature the snowy, icy landscapes as almost other main characters.
This is an oldie but a goodie. "Target 5," by Colin Forbes. It is about a Russian scientist defecting by way of the Arctic ice stations. Very cool, lol. Other cool books: Call of the wild, Jack London. Starvation Lake, Bryan Gruley is a novel about a murder in Michigan. Enjoy.
- For Mark's suggestions.
The Stork Series is really good, it is a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, although it really doesn't get deep into the ice stuff until the second book.
SpiritThe Ice Storm
The Sweet Hereafter
White and Other Tales of Ruin
Let the Right One In
Mind of Winter
Massive thank you for all the suggestions. As I'm getting through them, I'm doing a preemptive bump (Summer is back unfortunately ): )
The Terror is a very atmospheric horror/thriller based on the story of a real 19th-century Arctic expedition that ended badly.
Necroscope V: Deadspawn by Brian Lumley describes an icy place where vampires go to hibernate. This book is the end of a series, but it can stand alone pretty well. Hideaway by Dean Koontz starts with a man being brought back to life after his car plunges into an icy lake. That made me feel a chill for a while. Enjoy.
Here's some cold books I read last year. Your summer is over, but maybe you can save these up for next year.I got on a bit of an Antarctic kick last year
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Beyond the Ice Limit
Lost in the Barrens
Shades of Midnight is book 7 in a series, but the first I read and I was able to enjoy it.
Snowed in at the Ranch
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Baby, It's Cold Outside
.12 Stories of Christmas
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Girl in Snow” by Danya Kukafka
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II non-fiction, about a U.S. WWII plane (well, multiple planes eventually) that crashes in the Arctic and the efforts to save the crews. Not of all the crews are rescued and in the late 90's or early 00's (I don't remember the date, sorry) there is an effort made to find the remaining crew's bodies and bring them back to the U.S. for burial. My father-in-law was in the Army Air Force (which was later turned into just the Air Force) and stationed in Canada, so I was interested in reading this one because of him. An interesting book and not as dry as some non-fictions are.
Iced by Karen Marie MoningThe iron ghost by Jen Williams
Mother of winter by Barbara Hambly
The Bear and the nightingale by Katherine Arden
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
One of the books in the Shadows of salem series by Rebecca Hamilton
Some books in the Alex Craft series by Kalayna Price
Amber Argyles books Of ice and snow and winter queen.
The Bear and the Nightingale was already mentioned above but it's my vote too. Winter hangs ominously over the whole story line foretelling death. The book is written quite beautifully.
IcefallFrozen
Snowblind
Dark Matter
The Ice Dragon
The Surfacing
The White Darkness
Alone in the Ice World
Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz
A couple of suggestions for summer this year:1222 by Anne Holt, a very snowy mystery where survivors of a train crash high in the Norwegian mountains find themselves marooned in a snow-bound hotel.
And not fiction, but extremely icy, as you can guess from the title: The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate by Nancy Campbell, which is coming out at the beginning of November. Part travelogue of the author's time in Arctic regions, and part investigation of the history, usage and future of ice, it's a book that defies easy categorization, and is definitely worth a read.
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It can be about anything really, like an Ice Queen fairytale retelling, or two people trapped in a cabin cliche, or a YA about ice-powered superheroes, or a murder mystery set in winter etc.
Thanks :)