What are some books that take place in a cold and desolate setting? I read The Ice Twins and enjoyed the setting?
What are some books that take place in a cold and desolate setting? I read The Ice Twins and enjoyed the setting?
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The snow child.
The Great Alone
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent – takes place in Iceland long ago.
@Judy sounds interesting!
Absolutely loved this one. Have you read The Good People by the same author? Very different from this one, but good.
@Denise No, but I will look into it!
The Terror
Oh, loooooved that book.
Dance with the Devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon
@Jessica I cannot love this enough. I love Zarek!
@Jessica Can this be read without the prior ones being read?
@Georgeanna yes it can!
Similar to The Terror, Endurance by Alfred Lansing. True story.
The shipping news
@Jane , I read this years ago and was cold the whole time.
The Shining.
Apart from Quentin Bates who writes crime thrillers set in Iceland, I can’t think of any. Although a lot of the Scandi thrillers often feature cold & desolate. If you enjoyed “The Ice Twins” though, I can recommend his next 2 books (y)
@Eileen I didn’t read them. Were they good?
I enjoyed them – Patiently waiting for him to publish a new one! 🙂
By the Way they’re called “The Fire Child” and “Just before I Died”, which only came out last year.
The Mountain Between Us
@Kerry This sounds good!
Haven’t had a chance to read it,
but saw the movie. Really good!
Whos it by please just looked it up and theres a few called that.
@Louise Kate Winslet
Thank you
Snowblind by Christopher Golden.
@Mary looks good!
The Quality Of Silence – Rosamund Lupton.
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
The great alone is set in Alaska and very thorough on setting
@Shannon agree
The shipping News
Subterranean and Ice Hunt, both by James Rollins. Both stand alones.
No exit
I read the Ice Twins a few weeks back and really liked the book.
Wintering by Krissy Kneen is another set in a desolate setting!
The Snow Child. So good. You will feel like you are in Alaska
Game of Thrones series. Winter is coming!
Call Of The Wild
Northern Lights-Nora Roberts
Part of my novel takes place in the Arctic. They have to find a way off the island. It gets pretty intense.
@Kim What is the name of your book please.
Digitus 233
The second book will be release this spring or summer.
@Kim Thank you
You are so welcome. I hope you enjoy.
@Kim wow your book has some excellent reviews on Amazon.How could I NOT buy it?
@Kim Thank you so much!
@Kim looks good and great reviews!
Thank you @Georgeanna! I would love to hear what you think of it.
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver.The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon.
Call of the Wild.
@Patti best book ever!!!!!!!
I LOVED It too!
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Anything I would write this week ,
The Great Alone.
Gogol’s short story The Cloak:
read online free or download free:
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gogol/nikolai/g61cl/
Parts of Dr. Zhivago. A bunch of Russians, actually. lol
Where’d you go Bernadette
Alive
Thank you for all the amazing suggestions!
Winter’s Bone
Snow Child.
I was thinking that. I loved the snow child and her other one to the brightest edge of the world
Jack London’s Call of the Wild
Both is books this and “White Fang” where my favourite books ever as a child. <3
The Snow Child
A lightish read but I enjoyed it.
Dana Stenbow books are Alaskan crime. Ragnar Johnasson’s Dark Iceland have a chilly setting.
A Winter’s Bone. I can’t remember the author.
Woodrell.
@Denise Thanks!
Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas
GIngerbread, Robert Dinsdale
Dark Pines Will Dean
Whiteout by Ken Follett and any book by Stef Penny.
No Exit…Taylor Adams
The mountain between us
The Road by Cormac Macarthey
The great alone. Kirsten Hannah
Snow child
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Loved that book.
@Gail me too. Might read it again actually
Me too.
the golden compass
I truly loved “The Terror” by Dan Simmons. Based on the true expedition of two British boats in the ice… I recommend it!
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, set in Iceland. Great book!
Either Deception point or Digital Fortress both by Dan Brown.. Think it’s the first one.
The Tenderness of Wolves and Under A Pole Star both by Stef Penney
Wolf Lake is entertaining. The Snow Child is beautiful.
The uninvited guest by shari lapena x
Yay, that’s on my TBR!
@Georgeanna enjoy. I really enjoyed the setting, could totally picture it x
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah or The Snow Child.
Smilla’s Sense of Snow.