Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion
2024 Challenge - Regular
>
20 - A book set in the snow


Moon of the Crusted Snow
Spinning Silver
The Bear and the Nightingale




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






This sounds good , thanks for the recommendation



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.



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


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.

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)
The Great Alone was an amazingly well-written and plotted book, IMO, but Trigger Warning: (view 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!
It's the Beartown trilogy for me!


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.

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.

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 ;-)))

Winterkill by C.J. Box
And also The Winter Soldier -- this one actually sounds interesting.

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.





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?


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
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

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
Books mentioned in this topic
How the Light Gets In (other topics)The Frozen River (other topics)
The Frozen River (other topics)
No Exit (other topics)
Blankets (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Louise Penny (other topics)Ariel Lawhon (other topics)
Jacqueline Briggs Martin (other topics)
Han Kang (other topics)
Wilson A. Bentley (other topics)
More...
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