I want something atmospheric to read. For the winter.
I just read the Twilight saga for cultural relevance points during the first snow in my area and it really set a mood. I’m not necessarily looking for books that take place during winter but more like something you want to curl up with inside when it’s snowing. Personally I have no limit on spookiness and I would LOVE to see niche faves.
Ima kick it off with everything that comes to mind out of the books I’ve read. Y’all help me out.
Winter Books:
– Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde
(Tragedy ruins budding romance, takes place in winter, dog-centric plot)
– We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
(Secluded family with tragic and mysterious past experiences conflict with the outside world)
– If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
(Deep philosophical reflection, tear-jerker, cat-centric)
– All The Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
(Misguided romance, girl coming of age, gothic horror, trigger warning for just about everything)
-The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Myers
(You know what it’s about, all I have to say is don’t knock it till you try it)
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The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
And for some reason Lord of the Rings is very wintery for me!
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Honestly for me this would be The Picture of Dorian Gray 😀
Dana Stabenow’s series featuring Kate Shugak. If you want snowy winters…..this is the one.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is very atmospheric, magical read. It’s even got some winter scenes, so I think it would check all the boxes you’ve mentioned!
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Kamouraska by Anne Hebert
Set in 19th century Quebec, it tells the story of Elisabeth D’Aulnières, who conspires with her lover, an American doctor, to kill her husband, the seigneur of Kamouraska in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and maybe American Gods.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Le Guin
Are you PNW?! I’m planning a just for fun twilight reread too just for nostalgia, got our first snow today!
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell
A Black Fox Running by Brian Carter
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik for fantasy, Bone White by Ronald Malfi for horror, and Near the Bone by Christina Henry and No Exit by Taylor Adams for thriller.
Either *The Road Out of Winter* by Allison Stine which is an “the world ends in ice” kind of apocalypse or *Sabriel* by Garth Nix which has a lot of snow if I remember rightly but also a sort of death borderlands that’s perpetually cold.
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is the ultimate winter read
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Seconding The Secret History
The terror by Dan Simmons. It takes place in the arctic. Winter all year even in summer.