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Happy Arctic Sea Ice Day! (celebrated on July 15th and started by Polar Bears International to spread awareness about the rapid decline in sea ice caused by global warming)

This prompt was created by the winner of our Summer Reading Challenge raffle, Anna, who wanted to incorporate her homeland of Sweden into a prompt.

Listopia: /list/show/1...

My shortlist is Disappearing Earth, The Left Hand of Darkness, and Midwinter.

I'm having trouble finding something for this prompt but currently listening to an entry in the Walt Longmire detective series by Craig Johnson gave me an idea. This is at least the 3rd one where the hero is outside in the wilderness in winter trying to nab a crook or save someone and is in danger of freezing to death, among other things. So maybe I'll be able to use one of this series.

I'm currently leaning more toward titles with "winter" in them like Winter Counts or Winterwood. But excited to see everyone else's thoughts and suggestions.

I have The Ice Queen penciled in but I'm open to suggestions.

Some books I've enjoyed that fit:

The Snow Child
The Winter series by Elin Hilderbrand, starting with Winter Street
Winter Garden
The Winter People
Winter's Bone
The Snowman

I have 52 books on my listopia so I have a few books to choose from. Ha!

I have books set on cold planets, books set in cold locations like Antarctica and Siberia and Alaska, books that involve snowstorms, books set during winter, books with "cold" and "snow" and "winter" in the title, books with winter months in the title, books with "ice cream" in the title, and one book in which the protagonist works at an ice cream shop!

I have Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater picked.

I'm going to read Where'd You Go, Bernadette
I read in the summary that there's a planned trip to Antarctica, but I don't know if that's enough. I can always switch some books around, if I decide the connection to ice is pretty thin after I've read it.

I was thinking of putting A Dance with Dragons for this prompt, because I've put A Feast for Crows for "long book". But then I decided that two 1000+ page long books is a bit too much

I physically have a copy of In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, have never read it, AND had it on my 2017 plan and never got to it. 2021 is the year for this book!

I haven't read a ton of ice-y books, but as far as ice atmospheric stuff goes, The Bear and the Nightingale and that whole trilogy are among my FAVORITES to read in the winter.

At first glance at the books on my kindle, I've got:
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (a prequel to the Song of Ice & Fire series)
The Girl in the Ice by Robert Bryndza
The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder
The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry
Cold as Ice by Allison Brennan

And that doesn't even include getting creative with ice (like Dalex said with "ice cream" in title, etc) books set in winter or with a winter scene on the cover, or books set in Iceland.

dalex wrote: "I have 52 books on my listopia so I have a few books to choose from. Ha!

I have books set on cold planets, books set in cold locations like Antarctica and Siberia and Alaska, books that involve s..."

Care to share the title of the book where the protagonist works in an Ice Cream shop? I can't stand the cold, but I could work with ice cream. L()L

Jette wrote: "Care to share the title of the book where the protagonist works in an Ice Cream shop? I can't stand the cold, but I could work with ice cream. L()L"

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

Jette, I'm the same. I deliberately avoid books that just remind me of the cold. I am definitely a summer girl lol.

I currently only have Winter's Tale and Disappearing Earth on my plan, so I'll definitely be following this thread for more ideas.

I will read Ethan Frome ice is both physically present and used symbolically

Brooke wrote: "At first glance at the books on my kindle, I've got:
Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (a prequel to the Song of Ice & Fire series)

It's written more as a history, but is still very entertaining. I really loved this book, but you have to get used to the different style at first.

Thank you, Dalex. I've added it to my plan!

I have penciled in Wintersmith (Terry Pratchett), To The Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey), or Frozen (Mary Casanova).

My recommendation is Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut). It centers around a substance called ice-nine, which is a form of water that is solid at room temperature, and will solidify liquid water on contact. But like any Vonnegut book, it's really about philosophy, religion, war, government, and the relationship between humans and technology.

Kelly wrote: "I have penciled in Wintersmith (Terry Pratchett), To The Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey), or Frozen (Mary Casanova).

My recommendation is [book:..."


Cat's Cradle would be the perfect read about ice!!!!


I read that back in 1984 for English. It's been long enough that maybe I should consider a re-read :-)

Nadine wrote: "Kelly wrote: "I have penciled in Wintersmith (Terry Pratchett), To The Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey), or Frozen (Mary Casanova).

My recommenda..."

I've been re-reading all of Vonnegut's books in the order they were published. Cat's Cradle was an earlier one, so I've passed it already. I think I've read it three or four times and would still read it again!

Viktoria wrote: "I'm going to read Where'd You Go, Bernadette
I read in the summary that there's a planned trip to Antarctica, but I don't know if that's enough. I can always switch some books aroun..."

I read Where'd You Go, Bernadette? several years ago now, but I'm sure you'll find there's enough of an ice connection, Viktoria!

I've got four books I'm considering from my TBR:

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
To The Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett

Which one I end up reading will probably depend on what I can get from the library when I want it!

Just looking through my GR Read list, my top-rated books related to ice would be Out of the Ice by Ann Turner - a fast-paced thriller set in Antarctica that swept me up from the beginning! And The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah - I think I might have cried at times in this one...

But I've read quite a few ice-y books over the years - I would also recommend Ice Station by Matthew Reilly, Under a Black Sky by Inger Wolf (6th in a series, but I read it as a standalone and really enjoyed it), My Last Continent by Midge Raymond, The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian by David Dyer (iceberg!), Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, and Thirst by L.A. Larkin. These were all 4� or more for me!

Recommendations:
The Snow Gypsy by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Iced in Paradise by Naomi Hirahara (set in Hawaii)
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries) by Boris Akunin

My choices:
The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
Iceland's Bell - Halldor Laxness
The Frozen Thames - Helen Humphreys

I'm planning to read something of Yrsa Sigurðardóttir since she is an Author from Iceland and her books are normally set there.

I absolutely love Sharon Bolton so this one was a no brainer, I'm going to be reading The Split. That said, I have a copy of The Creak on the Stairs on its way (as I am joining the Capital Crime Book Club) and that's bound to be icy as well.

I decided on a Flavia de luce book for this: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. I am currently reading a book that makes me bundle up before I can read it. So good, too. Followed by Frost by Charlie N. Holmberg.

Washington Black has a significant section in the Arctic, as well as other sections in Barbados, Morocco, and Europe.

I'm planning to read John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire: How a Visionary and the Glaciers of Alaska Changed America --- if I can locate a copy through our library's Interlibrary Loan program.

So the prompt I choose.....

I am reading a book that has been lying in my physical TBR for ages for this one:
The expedition. a love story : solving the mystery of a polar tragedy

I would recommend the following that would fit the theme:
Burial Rites (takes place in Iceland)
Bear Town (icehockey is a part of the story)

Books I was considering:
I also considered reading something by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir or Arnaldur Indriðason being Icelandic authors.

I'm going for Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, purely for the title. No idea if the book has a wintery theme, or if that's in reference to the state of mind of Plath.

My plan is to read How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf. It's set in Alaska and has a very icy cover!

Prompt # 28. I plan to read Jenny Milchman's, Cover of Snow.

I read Icebound by Dean Koontz. It's about a team of scientists stranded on an iceberg that broke off the polar ice cap after a powerful tsunami.

I think Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy might also work for this. It's fiction and about a woman who follows the last of the Artic terns on their migration from Greenland to Antarctica.

I just finished reading The Hunting Party for this. It's a thriller about a bunch of friends spending New Year's at an estate in Scotland. I enjoyed it well enough, but it felt like I've read this story before.

I read The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg. This ice-entitled murder mystery was also set in Anna's homeland of Sweden.

Andrea wrote: "I read The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg. This ice-entitled murder mystery was also set in Anna's homeland of Sweden."



That's what I'm planning to read for this category - did you like it?

I do not read many murder mysteries, but it did capture my attention.

I have read Ashes in the Snow by Ruta Sepetys for this prompt. It's also called Between Shades of Gray. It's set in World War 2 in icy Lithuania and Siberia.

I'm going to read The Winter Over by Matthew Iden, It is set in Antarctica during their long 9-month winter, and the cover seems to have some iced-over goggles on it. Plus, being set in Antarctica, I assume there is lots of wintery weather discusses in the book.

I read The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters. The connection to ice is, as you see, in the title.

I'm also reading The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg. So far the mood is chilly, just right for late winter read. I read a lot of "nordic noir", but I'm glad to find one by a female author and with a central female character, too.

I decided on Invisible Girl the cover looks like it has part of a rose bush frozen in ice.

I read The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, translated from the Norwegian byElizabeth Rokkan. This has the most wonderful description of the "Ice Palace" of the title, a frozen waterfall.

I read The Flood by David Sachs. It begins with the calving of an ice shelf in the Antarctic, which causes the events in the book. So basically, the book couldn't exist without ice!

I am thinking of reading The Call Of Ice: Climbing 8000-Meter Peaks in Winter and/or The Arctic Fury for this prompt. The Ice Princess also looks like one I might enjoy.

There's plenty of ice in mystery stories, including Iron Lake

Robin P wrote: "I'm having trouble finding something for this prompt but currently listening to an entry in the Walt Longmire detective series by Craig Johnson gave me an idea. This is at least the ..."

The seventh book in the series, would be the perfect one for this! He is out in a blizzard climbing a Mt. throughout the book. In fact, I was struggling with this and you just made me realize I can use this book, since I read it earlier this year.

I've just finished A Night to Remember about the most famous piece of ice in history and the disaster it caused.

I just finished Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith, and it will probably end up as one of my top five books for the year!

I read Wrapped Up in You by Talia Hibbert It was set in Scotland during a blizzard. It's been on my list for awhile because I'm slowly working my way through Talia Hibbert's books, so the fact that it fit in was quite handy!

I read The Right To Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet by Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It was an interesting book, especially the sections on the author's childhood. The title stems from the author's involvement in using human rights legislation to protect the environment lived in by her Inuit people. There was a lot about politics (unsurprisingly) and a lot of acronyms! I was impressed by the patience shown by the author and others in negotiating with so many pressure groups. It was (accidentally) a good choice for the Arctic day original prompt.

Other books I would recommend: Erebus: The Story of a Ship and for lighter reads, The Virgin in the Ice and The Split.