My state is in a heatwave with no end in sight and I’m melting. Please recommend books with lots of descriptions of freezing temperatures. I want to feel cold, or at least appreciate this heat more.
Ideally thrillers/crime/suspense, romance, urban fantasy or humour. Bonus points if they’re well-known enough that I can find them at my local library, because my e-reader is not coping.
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Smilla’s sense of snow
For suspense, Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair MacLean
For fantasy, Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin is set on a world in the midst of an ice age. And it’s a beautiful story.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Deception Point by Dan Brown
H.P. Lovecraft, *At the Mountains of Madness*.
Christoph Ransmayr, *The Terrors of Ice and Darkness*.
Graham Billing, *Forbush and the Penguins*.
Admiral Richard Byrd, *Alone*.
Elisha Kent Kane, *Arctic Explorations in Search of Franklin*.
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice