Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book set in the snow.


I love this category, because you can go in any direction with it, happy, sad, or tense: Romance, dystopian, Christmas, historical, nordic noir, even non-fiction has a place here.


Listopia list is Here: A Book Set in Snow

Don't forget mystery. We're all here in this snowed in train/hotel and telephones don't work. Now people are dying one by one.

Between this and the Character Sleeps for 24+hrs, I think I'll finally get around to Early Riser.

Narnia

Snowpiercer would work if you want to read a graphic novel.

Some great books I loved that would fit this prompt:
Moon of the Crusted Snow
Spinning Silver
The Bear and the Nightingale

Found mine which is NF of course.

In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone

One by One involves a ski resort and being snowed in

I think Beartown and The Great Alone would work. For romance fans, there's New Year's Kiss. If you want to go for horror, there's always The Shining

Many of Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache mysteries are set in Three Pines where it’s quite snowy.

Highest recommendation for and

I have at least these 4 books on my shelf that I have not read yet, I will pick one of these.

A Christmas favorite of mine, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Hunting Party definitely qualifies. I gave it 3 stars this year, but others like it a bit more.

For NF readers, I just came across Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole

@Laura P. For NF readers, I just came across Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole.

This sounds good , thanks for the recommendation

ooh another NF that's on my list is Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

Snow Country by Y. Kawabata could be an option. It is a bit slow, though

Goodreads compiled a list of 48 "cold weather" novels which may or may not equal snow.

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/2...

Going with American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 instead.

My sister got me this book for Christmas yesterday, and I remember from pictures I've seen that the massacre occurred Dec. 29th in the snow.

, in case your first thought for this prompt was, The Long Winter, but, of course, you've already it...

Dubhease wrote: "Don't forget mystery. We're all here in this snowed in train/hotel and telephones don't work. Now people are dying one by one."

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone works for this ;).

I am going to read Snow for this prompt because, you guessed it...

Ashley Marie wrote: "Between this and the Character Sleeps for 24+hrs, I think I'll finally get around to Early Riser." That one IS spectacular!

The Silent Land but beware: it's extremely heart-rending.

The Curse of Nona May Taylor

For non-happy historical fiction, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is set in a Siberian gulag during World War II. To say there's lot of snow is an understatement…

There's also The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn, which is set partially in Kiev. It's the fictionalized biography of Mila Pavlichenko, history's deadliest female sniper, during World War II.

For something lighter, there's The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen, set in 1930s England. Light-hearted but also murdery, Georgie is a broke member of the extended British royal family who keeps getting caught up in murders. This time, she's cohosting a Christmas house party in the countryside. It's also romance, but nothing explicit.

If you like urban fantasy, some of the Dresden Files are snowy.
Proven Guilty
Ghost Story
Cold Days

And I second The Great Alone and The Bear and the Nightingale.

I just realized every one of my "Snow" books has been grim or murdery, even beyond the ones I listed here.

Recommend me a light, happy book, please! But not Christmas.

Diana wrote: "I think Beartown and The Great Alone would work. For romance fans, there's New Year's Kiss. If you want to go for horror, there's always [book:The Sh..."

The Great Alone was an amazingly well-written and plotted book, IMO, but Trigger Warning: (view spoiler)[DOMESTIC ABUSE, BIG TIME! (hide spoiler)]

I can highly recommend The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey or The Call of the Wild by Jack London

It's the Beartown trilogy for me!

Hey, just wondering if clan of the cave bear would fall under this prompt

Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

I have some large tomes for other categories, so I went with a Snowpiercer graphic novel for this one: The Escape. It's well done, but it's grim. The allegory for income inequality and climate change is hard to miss.

Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter - Classic from German

The White Book by Han Kang "From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white

While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of the blank page and snowy Warsaw."

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin - wonderful picture book bio of the scientist/photographer

Snowflakes in Photographs by Wilson A. Bentley - the work itself.

I read Murder on the Orient Express, the train is snowed in

Laura wrote: "I have some large tomes for other categories, so I went with a Snowpiercer graphic novel for this one: The Escape. It's well done, but it's grim. The allegory for income inequality ..."

From one Laura to another, that's exactly what I have lined up for this prompt. I bought a set of those graphic novels maybe three years ago and still haven't gotten around to them yet.

Also, picked up a freebie at my library that should fit in here:
Five Total Strangers. It doesn't have a very high rating but "A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the ride to end in disaster" sounds like something one might read for this prompt sitting in a waiting room some place ;-)))

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

Winterkill by C.J. Box

And also The Winter Soldier -- this one actually sounds interesting.

Milo wrote: "Hey, just wondering if clan of the cave bear would fall under this prompt"

I vote yes, though it's not a major point. I can think of at least one scene in which the main character is snowed into a small cave, so snow is present. The story covers many years and seasons so it's not a completely snowy story, but it could work. The third book in the series, The Mammoth Hunters, takes place over a winter and would be a better fit IMO, but you'd want to have read the first two books.

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I read Snow, Glass, Apples. Gorgeous artwork but definitely NSFW and has a lot of body horror, so approach with caution.

I recently read Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, but have never read The Call of the Wild by Jack London, the book that in part inspired the person in "Into the Wild" to go to Alaska, so I'll read The Call of the Wild.

I'm planning to read , I would think is has sufficient references to snow in it.

I read Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone for this. It was set at a ski resort in Australia. The book was not as good as I was hoping.

So many to choose from, but the one I settled on for the prompt was a children's book, The Night Raven, by Jonah Rundberg.

Ha, ha! I thought I had found the right book back in December when I planned this challenge's books. Snow and Ice

And, then I read the blurb yesterday! Snow is cocaine and ice are diamonds...oh, shoot.

Now can I stretch this prompt to allow this book? Or should I seek another?

I'm plumping for The Dark Is Rising, as the bad guys cause a massive blizzard to try to achieve their ends.

I found another on my shelves that looks like it will be better: Last of the Breed

I just picked up The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie for the "24th book by an author" prompt (according to Google, which I hope is correct). I haven't read it yet, but apparently it takes place in the snow so could fit here too.

Bea wrote: "Ha, ha! I thought I had found the right book back in December when I planned this challenge's books. Snow and Ice

And, then I read the blurb yesterday! Snow is cocaine and ice are d..."



LOL I say allow that choice! Nothing in the category says what "kind" of snow

Bea wrote: "Ha, ha! I thought I had found the right book back in December when I planned this challenge's books. Snow and Ice

And, then I read the blurb yesterday! Snow is cocaine and ice are d..."

Honestly that's hilarious; I would totally count it. I mean, the characters were *in* the "snow" right LOL